Senior Business Analyst

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What will you be doing?

The Business Analyst will help the Product team codify business requirements for building various Products

Job Responsibilities

The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in transforming the CPG, General Merchandise (GM), Media, and Retail industry and how these verticals conduct analytics and generate insights to deliver optimized experiences and personalized value to their shoppers. Delivering simple, easy-to-use measurement solutions, like Marketing Mix, in Store testing, will be central to how these verticals embed data into their day-to-day decision-making. This role will be responsible for helping Circana develop a portfolio of solutions to help our CPG, GM, Media and Retail clients achieve these objectives.

The successful candidate will be a highly skilled Business Analyst who is comfortable working in a start-up like environment where speed-to-market must be achieved in tandem with game-changing innovation. She/he will be experienced in driving complex, multi-faceted solutions across the vast landscape of Retail and Media channels leveraging diverse, cross-functional teams including Technology, Product Marketing, Sales, and HR. She/he will be responsible for documenting and constantly improving Circana’s standardized collaborative insight solution across new markets; demonstrating expert-level written and spoken articulation of the business ideas, systems, processes, steps, wire-frames, and test-criteria into comprehensive technical requirements that enable our developers to successfully build new solutions. While activities will vary and evolve, the Business Analyst can expect to spend 80% of their time building the requirements associated with the CPG, GM, Media and Retail solutions. The remaining 20% will be allocated to assisting the Product teams in developing and delivering impactful project communication that will be used to inform the Senior Leadership team as well as all key stakeholders up to the level of CEO.

Requirements

• Six or more years of SaaS solution requirements development experience in one or more of the settings below:
• Retail insight solution & data experience (Grocery, Drug, Mass, Club, etc.)
• Market research supplier with a defined software offering
• SaaS solution company (retail-oriented software company preferred)
• CPG (e.g. Unilever, Danone, Clorox etc)

• Expert requirements documentation, organization, and explanation skills required
• Business Analysis Certification highly preferred (i.e. IIBA, CBDA, CPOA, etc.)
• Knowledge of Data & Database Management concepts (i.e. MongoDB, PostgreSQL, etc.)
• Knowledge of BPA & ETL concepts (i.e. Ab-Initio, Apache Airflow, etc.)
• A flexible approach to communication; able to adapt their message quickly to the appropriate level or function with poise and polish.  A history of strong performance at the C-level is a plus
• Self-motivated; a healthy sense of impatience; start-up-level urgency
• Proven skills to thrive and drive project results in an ambiguous and fast-paced environment; comfort/confidence making decisions with 70% of the facts in-hand
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to articulate complex technical issues in a concise and polished manner to a diverse audience
• Ideally, reside in or be willing to relocate to Chicago, Illinois or vicinity
• Experience with client facing projects
• A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.  An advanced degree is a plus

Circana Behaviors

As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:

• Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
• Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
• Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
• Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
• Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
• Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
• Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.

Location

This position can be located in the following area(s): Hybrid - Chicago, IL, USA 

Prospective candidates may be asked to consent to background checks (in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice ) Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission.

The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The salary range for this role is $120K to $150K.

This job is also eligible for bonus pay.

We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.

You can apply for this role through methods such as our Careers website link and/or Intranet site for internal candidates.

The anticipated application deadline for this position is 02/14/2025.

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Salary : $120,000 - $150,000