Director, Strategic Programs - Enterprise Insights and Analytics

What You Need To Know

Open the door to a groundbreaking tech career with an industry leader. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with a 50+ year legacy of success. To create a new era in alcohol beverage sales and service, we’re heavily invested in the most transformative new technologies – and the most brilliant tech professionals. Southern Glazer’s was named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and is included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a full menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition reimbursement, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

We offer continuous learning and career growth in a fast-paced environment where you are respected, your voice is heard, and technology is part of our strategy for success. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

As SGWS transitions from the disparate and local solutions to enterprise class, standardized data and analytics, the need to evaluate and rationalize local solutions will continue and the iterative effort to migrate users to established standards will require significant knowledge of the business and BI Technologies. It is critical for Southern Glazer's Wine & Spirits (SGWS) to establish expertise around these transformational initiatives to work with the sites and markets and collaborate with them to migrate them to established standards this requires a strong business project manager who understands the W&S business and BI technologies to work with these sites and functional owners to review current state and develop and implement future state solutions. 

The EIA Director of Strategic Projects will be responsible for leveraging their knowledge and experience to understand current state and solutions, collaborate with the sites, ETP, DMG, and functional owners to establish a set of enterprise standards and BI best practices and migrate the sites to these standards. In addition, the business project manager will work with the EIA to identify optimal analytics and BI solutions for business users, suppliers, and retailers. Strong experience in rolling enterprise reports, and governance, conducting gap analyst, and identifying alternate solutions is highly desired. The role requires very strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to work across multiple groups and functions. Must have strong BI experience with a passion for the wine and spirits category.

Primary Responsibilities

• Program and project managing and providing oversight to enterprise reporting and analytics projects initiated by EIA, the business or other enterprise functions.
• Supporting program management and execution on regional and local strategic optimization and performing improvement efforts
• Provide accurate insights on live program performance and evaluate ROI on key initiatives.
• Follow established reporting and documentation standards to ensure uniformity throughout the organization. 
• Act as the subject matter expert on SGWS core business, challenges, and opportunities across EIA projects, providing guidance on strategy and options to best serve the business.
• Track, review, verify, analyze and report accurate results to Commercial leadership and/or field team promptly.
• Provide guidance where applicable to identify system deficiencies and analyze problems/possible solutions.
• Evaluate past program success/failure trends; use trend analysis to advise stakeholders on proposed programs.
• Analyze data available to anticipate potential issues & proactively model potential solutions.
• Advise stakeholders on reporting results and provide options for the strategic direction.
• Develop customer/account modeling and analysis: account segmentation, channel strategy, cost-to-serve analytics, ROI etc.
• Support operational efficiencies and cost savings initiatives (e.g supplier/SKU optimization, variable service, and delivery levels/fees, etc. (
• Streamline established Business Intelligence reporting to align with standards and processes
• Provide support to Leadership with ad hoc reporting needs and provide accurate and timely results consistent with state/region/national standards.
• Champion national analytics tools as appropriate (i.e OneSource, Compass, SalesNav, CPR, NSM, Tableau, BO, etc.)  

Minimum Qualifications

• 8-10 years of experience in supporting and managing