Retail Business Analytics Leader

PURPOSE OF THE JOB

The Retail Business Analytics Leader will bring together advanced analytics, market intelligence, and financial acumen to drive integration into the Retail channel strategy. The Retail Business Analytics Leader will be the sales and supply chain analytics conduit across the enterprise delivering insights to drive growth, foster productivity and gain a competitive advantage with our customers. This role also focuses on representing our channel as a leader across the enterprise for continuous improvement and opportunities to expand our business analytics capabilities and impact.

 

Reports to: Director of Retail Operations and Business Analytics

 

Span of Control: 

• Three direct reports with cross-functional responsibility to provide business analytics for the retail channel. These direct reports include working across all three OC businesses

 

• High level of cross-functional collaboration with GIS, Sales, Supply Chain, and other internal stakeholders

 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES

Leads Channel Analytics

• Understanding of the market through analytics, and emerging technology innovation.
• Consult and deliver retail account management analytics optimizing price, volume, and mix across customers, regions, and product lines (PVM).
• Key player to prepare the analytics and strategy input for retail Product Line Reviews 
• Lead the analysis of projects by working closely with the business units and cross-functional leadership.
• Prepares presentations for executives that follow a logically reasoned, data supported approach.
• Develop key metrics for channel performance including service, share, financial performance and competitive landscape
• Continue the execution of the channel’s data analytics roadmap as well as develop and execute the overall channel insights strategy 
• Utilizes data available both internally and externally to help drive to a world class supply chain
• Through an expanded use of analytics and integration, continuously builds a deep understanding of our customers and the marketplace, helps develop strategies to generate growth opportunities, local requirements to bring differential value to customers and outperform competitors. Identifies internal and external resource needs to ensure customer plans are executed fully
• Understand and educate key internal stakeholders on channel dynamics
• Support 3rd party analytics contracts and negotiation strategies with their leader and sourcing.
• Partner with GIS team to ensure the data being used is accurate, consistent, and up-to-date. Ensure that data handling practices comply with relevant regulations and company policies. Help prioritize analytics projects based on business needs and strategic goals.
• Exemplifies thought leadership across the retail organization

 

Business Transformation

• Works across the Retail team to identify areas opportunities and drive productivity and process improvement across the team.

• Understands overall business strategies; takes initiative in creating and leading team to foster growth across the channel
• Partners with IT business partners to identify next generation investments and system capabilities
• Drives new and different ideas, innovation, collaboration across multiple areas of business, and participates in business leadership level discussion
• Works with the Retail leadership team to understand strategy and identify key opportunities to invest resources into
• Thoroughly understands business operations, from forecasting, to supply chain, marketing, to market results, and how decisions impact overall business outcomes. 
• Evaluate value creation and service improvement opportunities both internally and externally creating differentiation versus our competition.

 

Lead and Develop Talent

• Attracts, retains, and develops top talent; assess the capabilities required to execute the business analytics needs across the team
• Is accountable to allocate resources to the priorities identified to drive the business strategy.
• Create an environment of talent growth, empowerment, and inclusion where talent is developed and