Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY:

Contribute to the achievement of company and client objectives by providing in-depth analysis of a leading wholesaler’s business for the Consumer Products team. The Business Analyst will use a variety of data sources, including consumption-based POS, to analyze and deliver information. This position is normally meant to be on-site at the client, but is currently a remote position until the client offices are reopened.  This position works directly for Retail Insights with minimal supervision, but will also take direction from the client while providing accurate and on-time reporting and data analysis.

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Supplier Partner support resource

· Support our supplier partners and the Consumer Products Team as a resource for questions and training on the data tool (TruVuPOS)

· Manage our support mailbox for TruVuPOS

Various Ad Hoc and structured analyses within the consumer products area

· This role will work directly with Category Managers to define strategic initiatives and complete analysis that helps drive new item reviews, planograms, and item assortment

· This role will also work directly with the Marketing and Retail Operations teams to complete analysis that helps drive promotional efficiency and inform field teams to maximize business performance

· Examples of reports and analysis include:

· Various sales and scan analyses, Distribution gap analysis, Market basket analysis, etc.

· Creation of category dashboards each month for all categories

· Creation of vendor level dashboard for all identified suppliers

· Creation of promotional review template completed monthly for key promotional events

· Requires project and time management skills with the ability to deliver a high-quality output

REQUIREMENTS:

· 1-3 years’ experience in retail or wholesale preferred

· Analytically-minded and proficient - someone who is comfortable with data, Excel, and web-based programs, and enjoys this type of work

· Thrives in an on-site environment – working directly in the customer’s office with dotted-line reporting structure to customer lead

· Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

· Ability to manage multiple projects/deliverables at a time

· Strong Written and Verbal Communication Skills

· Power User of Excel and PowerPoint, proficient in Access

· Developing ability to find the golden nuggets in the data, not just “reporting the news”

Preferred candidate should be within one hour driving distance of the Chesterbrook, PA area

Company Description

Retail Insights is a privately owned data analytics and software solutions development company that was founded in 2010. We specialize in gathering sales data and aggregating it into reports and dashboards that we provide to major retail and pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors. We are an entirely virtual company with all employees working from either customer's offices or home-based offices. In addition, we are a subsidiary of Market Performance Group (MPG) which was founded in 2002. MPG is an innovative consulting and sales management services company that specializes in helping consumer-product companies define a better path forward to accelerate growth and profitability.