Senior Analyst
Role summary
Spreetail is seeking a Senior Analyst to drive ecommerce market share growth through advanced analytics and operational efficiency. This role involves managing projects, executing tasks, and planning effectively, with a focus on owning and evolving critical tools like ROB and NPR. The ideal candidate will translate complex data into actionable insights, develop predictive analytics for inventory performance, and ensure operational excellence through robust reporting and SOPs. This position acts as a decision-support leader and mentor, fostering continuous improvement and innovation to support scalable business growth. The role offers flexibility with a "Work Your Way" approach, combining remote work with quarterly in-person collaboration.
Work Your Way:
Spreetail is looking for a Senior Analyst who can manage projects, execute tasks, and plan effectively. This person will be a cross-collaborator to align on processes. This role will own and evolve critical tools while building scalable, data-driven solutions that enable teams to manage by exception and make faster, more accurate decisions. The ideal candidate partners cross-functionally to translate complex data into actionable insights, develops predictive analytics to guide long-term inventory performance, and ensures operational excellence through robust reporting, SOPs, and training. Additionally, this individual acts as a decision-support leader and mentor, driving continuous improvement, innovation, and alignment across teams to support scalable business growth.
How you will achieve success:
- Strategic Analytics and Tooling Leadership:Design and develop advanced analytics models and tooling infrastructure to optimize inventory levels and procurement.
- Tool Development and Management:Oversee and enhance tools like ROB (Replenishment Open to Buy), NPR (New Part number Research), Inventory Control Tower, and Inbound/Freight Optimization for efficient order quantity generation and allocation. Develop new tools required for new business pursuits or advancing current operations.
- Operational Excellence in Analytics:Ensure prompt response to business insights needs and tooling requisitions, adhering to anSLA set response window.
- Monitoring, Reporting, and Performance Management:Continuously monitor inventory levels and performance through advanced data analytics. Work to produce predictive analytics models that the reporting teams can utilize to support key inventory metrics 1+ years in advance (COH, Receipts, OOS, Inventory Turn, Lost Sales, Allocation %, etc.).
- Ad Hoc Decision Support:Provide data-driven insights for ad hoc inventory decisions, supporting the inventory management team with necessary data and tools. Ensure the analysis explains business drivers ($s) vs. count metrics.
What experiences will help you in this role:
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field.
- 2-5 years of experience in business analytics.
- Experience with scripting languages (Python or R).
- Experience building SQL queries.
- Experience with Excel (PowerBI, Tableau, and DAX are nice-to-haves).
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