Job Description
Your Opportunity as the Senior Analyst, Data Solutions
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, Data Solutions will work with the Integrated Analytics and Sales teams to understand the data sources required to address specific issues and develop plans to efficiently access this data, and when appropriate scale and combine this data across multiple data sources in the organization. This role will focus on working cross-functionally to understand data availability and handing off solutions to business intelligence teams when solutions will be used in longer-term projects.
Location: Working Remote USA
In this role you will:
Understand the availability, structure, and business use of the JM Smucker data environment
Utilize modern data techniques and ETL tools with large data sets to create scalable data solutions leveraging the disparate databases available for analysis
Work collaboratively with Sales teams to understand business objectives and implement data sources and strategies to achieve these objectives aided by analytics
Understand data being utilized for various analytics products and calculations across functions and proactively recommend opportunities to standardize, consolidate, or otherwise streamline usage
Develop necessary business calculations, populate and maintain meta-data and data dictionaries to facilitate end-user education
Monitor data source usage and recommend data products for promotion into enterprise data process with the IS team as needed
Coach and train team on availability of relevant data sources to increase analytics utilization
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
2+ years of practical analytical experience in Marketing, Finance, Sales or R&D
Comfortable manipulating and analyzing complex, high-volume, high-dimensional data from varying sources
Experience creating or refining data tables and ETL processes using tools like SQL, Tableau, Alteryx, R, Python
Demonstrated experience gathering project requirements, building business acumen, and managing deliverables
Experience distilling complex data concepts into a consumable presentation for nontechnical audiences
Strong solution-oriented thinker with project management, critical thinking skills and a bias for action
Demonstrated ability to coach and share best practices
A relentless commitment to continuous learning and professional development
Ability to dream big, get things done, and have fun doing it
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