Job Description

Job Description

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers with 2,300+ stores. The Albertsons Companies family of brands includes some of the most prominent brands in food retailing, with a growing base of loyal shoppers. Thanks to the professionalism, diversity, spirit, and friendliness of our people, we have locations across the U.S.

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. We have a new vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength with deep local roots, that offers an easy, fun, friendly and inspiring experience, no matter how a customer chooses to shop with us. We want talented individuals to be a part of this journey!

A $60B company with 2,300+ stores, 20 distribution centers, and 18 food and beverage plants make us one of the largest retailers in the United States. With stores in 34 states serving 34 million customers, our foundation is our 20 well-known grocery banners with an eclectic and legendary history. Across the nation, we are moving the needle through innovation.

The eCommerce Department has an opening for an eCommerce Labor Analytics Senior Manager. This position is located at the Albertsons E-Commerce offices in Pleasanton, California.

Position Purpose

This eCommerce Labor Analytics Senior Manager will be responsible for the oversight of an analytics team that leverages data, information, and tools/applications to support the E-Commerce labor model. This role will be responsible for providing new data driven insights into enabling a world class grocery fulfillment performance and customer experience. This role will help drive the labor analytics roadmap for measuring our performance, delving into root cause analysis, using predictive analytics, data visualization tools, and leveraging the full capabilities of our fulfillment applications. This role reports to the Director, eCommerce Labor and Procurement.

Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

* Recommend new equipment, methods and procedures at store level that could considerably reduce labor expenses.
* Establish business requirements that create simple in-store user functionality of the company's selected labor management tools.
* Review and analyze new system and software releases of the labor management applications for labor forecasting, department schedule writing and labor management. Provide feedback to corporate Retail Engineering for future development requirements needed from our outside software vendor.
* Utilize engineered labor standards within an electronic work measurement software database, to determine the labor requirements for tasks and activities by job by department to populate the VLM databases.
* Assist in organizing and maintaining a central data repository for all divisional stores, to include equipment quantities, equipment types, physical characteristics (store sizes & fixture lengths), polices & methods, etc., that affect the labor hours at each individual location.
* Assist in the development, testing, and maintenance of a weekly/periodic Sales and Labor Tracking Tool for the management of productivity and labor expenses at store, district, and division levels to total-up entire company results.
* Perform other productivity and cost control assignments, as requested by senior leadership.
* Consults with DM's, Field Specialists and Store Directors regarding unique facility circumstances: discrepancies in actual labor hours versus standard; potential costs of changes due to competition, remodels, combo or dual branded conversions, customer service levels, etc., while keeping consistency among all stores, districts, areas, and divisions.
* Serves as a liaison between internal departmental requirements and external support personnel.

Qualifications:

* Bachelor's degree in business or other relevant fields
* A minimum of 6 years' experience in labor analytics
* Strong understanding of retail scheduling
* Strong quantitative modeling and analysis
* Ability to influence cross-functionally in a leadership role and operate successfully in a team first environment.
* Ability to multi-task and manage the prioritization of a variety of programs in response to changing business needs.
* Ability to craft a coherent vision from complex data output and effectively simplify the complexity to 'tell an effective story.'
* Promotes collaboration with both internal and external stakeholders to unlock data driven insights into opportunities that were not previously identified.
* Keen ability to learn internal data architecture and navigate a variety of data sources to provide data structural simplicity as the platform scales for growth.
* Development and execution of both short-term and long-term business plans that are in alignment with Division goals and objectives.
* Previous experience collaborating with IT on project prioritization and design execution.
* Significant experience/background in the use of SQL, Python, R, Excel (including VBA), and Data Visualization software
* Experience with the use of ETL to create data warehouse solutions.
* This job requires to work on weekends and/or holidays per business needs.

About us

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on innovation and building culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique vision: forging a retail winner that is admired for national strength, deep roots in the communities we serve, and a team that has passion for food and delivering great service.

Albertsons Culture Principles

* Compassion: We always treat each other with kindness and respect
* Team: We always support and recognize each other
* Inclusive: We always value everyone's perspective
* Learning: We always strive to grow and develop ourselves and others
* Competitive: We always act with integrity to win over the customer
* Ownership: We always take actions to drive our success

Physical Environment:

* Work may be performed in a temperature-controlled environment.
* Must sit, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.
* May spend long periods of time at desk or computer terminal.
* Will use keyboards, telephone, and other office equipment during the course of normal workday.
* Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in completion of job duties.
* Work day is fast paced; some evening and weekend work may be required.

How to Apply: Interested candidates are encouraged to submit a resume by visiting https://www.albertsonscompanies.com/careers/en/home.html

Diversity is fundamental at Albertsons Companies. We foster an inclusive working environment where the different strengths and perspectives of each employee is both recognized and valued. We believe that building successful relationships with our customers and our communities is only possible through the diversity of our people. A diverse workforce leads to better teamwork and creative thinking, as well as mutual understanding and respect.

The Albertsons Companies policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion, and other conditions of employment without regard to race, color, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, sex, age, disability, veteran status, medical condition, marital status, or any other legally protected status.

We support a drug-free workplace -- some positions require applicants offered a position to pass a pre-employment drug test before they are hired.

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