Hybrid Sales Analyst

at Newell Brands

• Job title: Sales Analyst
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior
• Salary: $73,250 - $89,580 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Tableau
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Minneapolis, United States

About the role

• Category Sales Analyst at Newell Brands enabling business transformation through data-driven insights. Collaborating with cross-functional teams and reporting on sales and market trends in a hybrid role.

Responsibilities

• Run analysis, reports and more to better understand and improve sales, profitability and process efficiency for internal customers.
• Draw actionable insights from varying data sets: consumption, market share, digital shelf, search, among many others.
• Interpret complex datasets to tell stories and develop an organized set of conclusions/recommendations that can be easily digested by a broad audience.
• Build partnerships with cross-functional teams to understand trends and opportunities for improvement, address customer needs and product pain-points.
• Help build automated reporting through AI & BI platforms, visualizations, and analytical models.
• Work with syndicated data sources and partner with technical teams to facilitate the consumption of data for APIs.
• In partnership with other members of the team, collaborate with Sales, Marketing, and Supply Chain to support/optimize innovation launches and promotional strategies.
• Participation with sales results, annual planning, and forecasting processes.
• Support the continued enhancement and evolution of Newell’s analytics capabilities to a best-in-class level.
• Stay up to date on industry trends/innovations and drive new analytics initiatives that contribute to business goals.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, analytics
• 1-5 years of direct hands on-Retail/ CPG experience providing solutions in a large global company
• Omnichannel experience preferred
• 1+ years of experience with Target business and expertise with systems such as Vender IQ, SOLYS, or BPD data is preferred
• Skill with Microsoft Office applications for the creations of reports, presentations and analysis including Excel functions, formulas, pivot tables, Power Pivot and Power Query
• Preferred experience with data modeling tools such as ChatGPT, PowerBI, and Tableau
• Strong business acumen with an analytical and problem-solving mindset
• Familiarity with financial concepts preferred (promotional lift, profitability, inventory levels, etc.)
• Ability to operate in a matrixed team environment with deadlines & deliverable dates shifting around
• Intellectual curiosity for digging into the underlying story to be told with data
• Strong verbal and written communication skills; ability to communicate technical information to both a technical and non-technical audience
• Experience synthesizing disparate data sources to drive to logical, concise, and actionable conclusions, preferred
• Experience using POS Sales data alongside other data sources such as invoice, product margin, supply chain, web marketing, product, and shopper behavior metrics to provide a holistic program for retail growth, preferred
• Broad understanding of analytical processes including but not limited to data management, forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling and visualization.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• 401(k) matching
• Flexible work arrangements
• Paid time off