Job Description

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The Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst leads analytical support for Shared Business Services for US Foods companies. The analytical support includes conducting and delivering accurate and actionable information through collaborative research, ad-hoc analysis, and development of qualitative and quantitative reporting as well as the visualization representing underlying data. Successful candidates will work cross-functionally with key business partners across the organization to support Shared Business Services’ strategies and goals.

This position is been determined to be “Remote Anywhere”: The work is completed 100% remote anywhere in the U.S. except Hawaii or United States Territories.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES: 

Analytics and Solution Development

Lead analyses for Shared Business Services and their partners to enhance goals of their programs.  This includes gathering and cleansing data, incorporating, and interpreting mathematical analyses, developing insights from analyses, and documenting data definitions and metric calculations.
Partner with leadership on how best to problem solve for an approach and the data sets and methodology required.
Synthesize analyses and develop clear communications to Shared Business Services and their business partners.  
Present analyses with limited oversight and supervision.
Serve as subject matter expert and thought leader for applicable analytics for assigned business matters.
Conduct complex root cause analysis on business problems, in partnership with leadership to identify insights that inform and drive key business decisions.   
Work in a fast-pace agile environment driving adoption of agile principles with business partners

Tools and Reports Development:

Lead development of interactive visualizations and reports for end users, including developing requirements, reviewing user stories, evaluating technical development progress, managing user acceptance testing, and training end users.
Train others on use of key tools and reports.
Serve as “power user” of custom and third-party applications, advanced querying and complex data aggregations and analyses not supported by a single application.
Serve as subject matter expert of applicable tools, databases, and systems.
Engage with Business Intelligence Center of Excellence on best practices, lessons learned, and knowledge sharing on analytics and tools across the enterprise.
Ability to write functional specifications for the development of reports based on analytical discovery.

SUPERVISION

None

RELATIONSHIPS

Internal:   Shared Business Services Team, Quantitative Methods Team, Insights and Analytics Team, IT team

External:     N/A

QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Training:  Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Engineering or an equivalent combination of education and experience is required.

Related Experience:

5+ years’ experience in statistical analysis, business analysis, data analysis, data reporting roles required.
Experience in food distribution, retail, or related industries with large datasets and transactional data preferred.
Experience in a call center operation preferred.

Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: 

Proficiency in the following required: Microsoft Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word; 
Data querying methodologies and languages; Tableau or related visual presentation/reporting tool; Cloud-based data warehouse environments (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift).
Knowledge of Open-Source Technology (e.g., Python, R), MS Access a plus.
Strong cross-functional business acumen
Excellent data manipulation and analysis skills
Ability to work independently and within a team; ability to build consensus and lead work streams
Exhibits strong written and verbal communication skills required to present information to a broad audience of users spanning Executives to Business users. 
Ability to communicate complex concepts clearly
Ability to influence change in complex organizations
Ability to establish effective professional business relationships with all levels of users.
Demonstrates strong customer service skills.