Analyst, Sales Analytics

Job ID: 2647 

Alternate Locations: United States-Minnesota-Minneapolis 

Newell Brands is a leading $8.3B consumer products company with a portfolio of iconic brands such as Graco®, Coleman®, Oster®, Rubbermaid® and Sharpie®, and 25,000 talented employees around the world. Our high-performance culture, unparalleled curiosity about the world around us, and talented people fuel our success. Our culture is enabled through our core values which guide all we do and how we win as One Newell. They are Integrity, Teamwork, Passion for Winning, Ownership & Leadership.

Job Summary:

The Analyst - Sales Analytics, will play an important role in Newell Brands’ strategy to enable business transformation by creating data-driven insight-based culture throughout the organization. The successful candidate will have the skills needed to facilitate the collaboration between the business and technical teams. They will require proficiency in data practices, analytics techniques, and business knowledge as it relates to reporting, diagnostics, and forecasting.

Responsibilities:

• Run analysis, experiments, 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 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.

Key Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, business.
• 1+ 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 AVP is preferred.
• Experience 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 PowerBI, Tableau, Qlik.
• 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.
• Understanding of analytical processes including but not limited to data management, forecasting, optimization, predictive modeling, and visualization.

Newell Brands (NASDAQ: NWL) is a leading global consumer goods company with a strong portfolio of well-known brands, including Rubbermaid, Sharpie, Graco, Coleman, Rubbermaid Commercial Products, Yankee Candle, Paper Mate, FoodSaver, Dymo, EXPO, Elmer’s, Oster, NUK, Spontex and Campingaz. We are focused on delighting consumers by lighting up everyday moments. Newell Brands and its subsidiaries are Equal Opportunity Employers and comply with applicable employment laws. EOE/M/F/Vet/Disabled are encouraged to apply.