Analyst, Global Operations Project

Analyst, Global Operations Projects

Boston, MA (Must be onsite M-TR)

The OPR Team is one of the engines that powers Wayfair, a company passionate about data-oriented strategy and performance management. Our Global Ops Projects team is focused on solutions to complex business problems, utilizing our broad capabilities to drive impact across project management and analytics. This team utilizes data as an asset and maximizes its business value to extend our market advantage, working closely and collaboratively with other global teams to provide solutions to our business while we strengthen our position as an inclusive organization. 

With this team, this new analyst will have the opportunity to combine business knowledge and optimization techniques with data engineering and visualization tools to deliver the right solutions for the right business problems. Most importantly, they will have the opportunity to move fast, work smart, steer the business through data, and collaborate with a talented, diverse, multicultural, and international team.

The ideal candidate is an energetic team player who understands how to effectively drive results in a fast-paced and rapidly growing company.  Strong quantitative skills are required to analyze the performance and efficacy of solutions, and due to the collaborative cross-functional nature of this position as well as high visibility with senior leadership, effective communication, and presence are also highly valued.  Structured prioritization and creative problem-solving skills are both essential. This role requires a high level of ownership and involves understanding ambiguous data sources, defining KPIs, creating analytical products, and driving insights to implementation, and finally justifying impact. 

What you’ll do

• Develop statistical and analytical models in order to support cross-functional initiatives
• Collaborate and partner closely with Data Solutions, Data Visualization and others, to ensure scalable rollout of recommendations
• Be the subject matter expert for data, analytics, and visualization within the Global Operations or Supply Chain organization to ensure accurate and proper interpretation of core business metrics and consumer behavior
• Support broad improvement initiatives spanning thousands of suppliers to improve efficiency and visibility across the supply chain for our supplier partners
• Analyze key performance metrics to root cause performance issues and drive change
• Regularly communicate performance trends and improvements to senior management and leadership

What you’ll need

• Bachelor’s in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Information Systems, Economics, Management, Social Sciences or other quantitative discipline field with strong academic record 
• Experience in a quantitative, consulting, business intelligence, data science or engineering role performing quantitative analysis a plus
• Hands-on experience conducting quantitative analyses on large data sets; experience with Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, etc. ), structured programming languages (Python, R). 
• Proficient knowledge of SQL (TSQL, Google Big Query and Vertica incl. aggregate functions, joins, etc.). 
• Other Data Visualization Tools (Tableau/Looker/DataStudio) a plus
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously
• Solution-oriented, collaborative & curious mindset
• Strong written and verbal communication with a team player, highly collaborative attitude 
• Experience in delivering successful projects end-to-end on time

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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