What are the responsibilities and job description for the Analyst III - Merchandising Strategy Analyst position at Impresiv Health?
Title: Analyst III – Merchandising Strategy Analyst
Description:
The Merchandising Strategy Analyst (Contractor) will play an important role on the Category Management team managing many of the day-to-day operational activities as well as supporting longer term strategic initiatives. The ultimate goal of this role is to support category level decision making to drive sales and profitability and establish clear market superiority. The ideal candidate will possess at least a bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field and have a minimum of three to five years analytical experience in consumer goods or retail.
What You Will Do:
You Will Be Successful If:
What You Will Bring:
About Impresiv Health:
Impresiv Health is a healthcare consulting partner specializing in clinical & operations management, enterprise project management, professional services, and software consulting services. We help our clients increase operational efficiency by delivering innovative solutions to solve their most complex business challenges.
Our approach is and has always been simple. First, think and act like the customers who need us, and most importantly, deliver what larger organizations cannot do – provide tangible results that add immediate value, at a rate that cannot be beaten. Your success matters, and we know it.
That’s Impresiv!
Description:
The Merchandising Strategy Analyst (Contractor) will play an important role on the Category Management team managing many of the day-to-day operational activities as well as supporting longer term strategic initiatives. The ultimate goal of this role is to support category level decision making to drive sales and profitability and establish clear market superiority. The ideal candidate will possess at least a bachelor’s degree in business administration or related field and have a minimum of three to five years analytical experience in consumer goods or retail.
What You Will Do:
- Collaborate with the Category Management Team(s) to scope and plan any and all financial and quantitative analyses that will aid in day-to-day management of the business and yield critical answers to longer-term strategic questions.
- Understand the required data sets to complete the analyses and procure them accordingly.
- Manage the delivery of timely, zero-defect analyses to support insight development. Run ad hoc analysis upon request and provide actionable insights with recommendations for next steps
- Run Daily sales, seasonal reporting, weekly vendor reporting and analyze market data to assist in decision making.
- Partner with Category Management teams to build promotional plans and activities related to everyday and seasonal businesses.
- Attend proofing meetings and partner with Merchandising Analytics to manage funding.
- Attend seasonal meetings and work with Category Management teams to assist with item selection and coordinate all billing and end of cycle disposition.
- New Item set up and maintenance for planogram and mid-year items.
- Off-Shelf coordination of off-shelf programs with key suppliers, setting up programs and running off-shelf reporting.
- Oversee price change activities.
- Communicate effectively, both verbally and on paper, to Merchandising and Cross-Functional teams throughout the organization.
- Partner with outside partners.
- Assist with communication and reporting on sales performance, seasonal sales and sell-through and ad planning.
- Distill findings and craft a succinct and powerful business case that effectively communicates actionable recommendations.
- Support the development of presentations for mid-level and senior executives.
- Keep projects on track and moving forward.
You Will Be Successful If:
- Ability to multi-task several concurrent requests and quickly pull together data.
- The ability to dissect a problem into an organized approach, structure analysis, and develop recommended solutions providing actionable insights.
- Strong problem solver.
- The ability to run and manage quantitative analysis in a defect-free manner.
- Mastery of Microsoft Excel is expected in this role.
- A history of work and/or passion for the retail/consumer industry.
- Ability to communicate effectively, succinctly and professionally, both verbally and on paper.
- Familiarity with Microsoft PowerPoint is ideal.
- Motivated team player able to effectively collaborate with many individuals including the Category Merchandising team(s), functional and divisional leaders, Cross-functional Support Teams, Field Management and Vendor Partners.
What You Will Bring:
- A minimum of three to five years analytical experience in a business environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Marketing, Finance or similar field.
- Experience working with supplier/retail.
- Previous reporting analyst experience.
- Knowledge and experience working with micro strategy and Tableau.
About Impresiv Health:
Impresiv Health is a healthcare consulting partner specializing in clinical & operations management, enterprise project management, professional services, and software consulting services. We help our clients increase operational efficiency by delivering innovative solutions to solve their most complex business challenges.
Our approach is and has always been simple. First, think and act like the customers who need us, and most importantly, deliver what larger organizations cannot do – provide tangible results that add immediate value, at a rate that cannot be beaten. Your success matters, and we know it.
That’s Impresiv!