Job Description
Your Opportunity as the Senior Analyst, Analytics Implementation
Our commitment to win with unwavering category growth, underpinned by advanced analytics and relentless execution is fundamental to our organization and this role. Strategic analysis has taken on even greater importance in today's competitive environment. We are investing in growing our analytical capabilities and supporting the growth of those on our team. In fast-moving categories like those where The JM Smucker Co. competes it is necessary to quickly build and scale solutions that bring value to our customers and selling teams across a wide range of evolving business issues.
In this role you will be responsible for leading the creation of data products including data tables, ETL methodology, and business measures and calculations required to achieve specific objectives. The Senior Analyst, Analytics Implementation will work with the IA and Sales teams to understand the business questions commonly asked across the sales organization. This role will focus on working cross-functionally to understand what is being used successfully today that can be scaled and gathering feedback for areas of improvement. The primary objective of this role is increased usage of analytics through requirements scoping and user experience discussions. This individual will be a champion for change and the adoption of new visual analytic solutions.
Location: Working Remote USA
In this role you will:
Act as a liaison with the sales organization to understand current business needs and analytics solutions to help address them
Lead scoping discussion with sales team with a focus on capturing specific actions they need to take to achieve business objectives
Guide the development of new analytics tools and process with the Scaled Solutions team, recommend opportunities to consolidate or specialize solutions to best serve the needs of the end user
Gather feedback on what is useful with a focus on how we can increase usage with solutions in a modern technology stack
Act as guide and trainer to business audience; increase awareness of available solutions
Advocate for the use of visual best practices and modern analytics in business processes
Focus on user experience and adoption highlighting opportunities to improve existing solutions
Remove objections to adoption of solutions through the understanding of barriers to usage and developing solutions to overcome those challenges
Understand the availability, structure, and business use of the JM Smucker data environment
The Right Place for You
We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.
What we are looking for:
Minimum Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Statistics or other Business focus
2+ years of practical analytical experience in Marketing, Finance, Sales or R&D
Demonstrated capabilities in gathering, analyzing and presenting detailed information to a business audience
Experience creating and refining data visualization and analytics tools using solutions like Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI, R, Python
Demonstrated experience gathering project requirements, building business acumen, and managing deliverables
Demonstrated experience delivering complex data concepts into a consumable presentation or format for non-technical audiences
Strong, solution-oriented thinker with project management, critical thinking and a bias for action
Comfortable working with ambiguity and proposing potential solutions to new problems
Demonstrated ability to coach and share best practices
Concise and persuasive communicator
A relentless commitment to continuous learning and professional development
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