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This position is an experienced role within Meijer’s Data Science & Analytics organization. The Data Science & Analytics teams bring together a highly technical skillset, rooted in statistics and machine learning, with strong communication and collaboration capabilities to serve and partner with business areas across the enterprise. The Advanced Analyst II role contributes to these efforts by developing and applying advanced analytic and machine learning solutions, proactively collaborating with and anticipating business needs. This role directly supports data-driven actions taken across the business to have a positive impact on sales, margin, and profit performance, as well as enriching the lives of the communities we serve.
What You'll be Doing:
- Responsible for delivering material impact to the organization’s performance by: providing analytical support for Merchandising teams, identifying and executing against analytics-based business opportunities, and developing analytic approaches & reports that improve the efficiency of the Merchandising organization.
- Develop and apply advanced quantitative methods, data mining, modeling, and analytical tools to solve complex business problems across Merchandising.
- Partner and consult on report and tool solution designs that apply best in class analytics.
- Effectively communicate complex business analysis and provide recommendations for improvements.
- Keep customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centered focus at Meijer.
- Develop scorecards and partner with reporting teams to improve reporting effectiveness.
- Collaborate and build strong business relationships with Customer Marketing, Merchandising and Marketing teams to develop winning customer marketing solutions.
- Leverage disparate data sources for holistic understanding to solve complex business problems.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field or Relevant Experience. Master’s degree preferred.
- 2-5 years business experience in marketing analysis or analytics consulting leadership.
- Experience in an Advanced Analytics environment working with customer analytic systems in both SAS & Teradata (preferably at a large retailer).
- Experience with Power BI and DAX for building dynamic, interactive dashboards.
- Experience working in a cross-functional teams focused on: Business/Financial Analysis, Promotional Analytics, Customer Analytics, Pricing, Merchandising, Media Analytics, etc.
- Experience developing analytic techniques such as: forecasting, predictive modeling, segmentation analysis, simulation modeling, data mining.
- Experience in customer-facing industry (traditional or online retailing, retail financial services, etc.).
- Multi-channel experience preferred – familiar with both in-store/branch and online analytics.
- Advanced and hands on experience using one or more of: SQL programming; SAS Base programming, SAS Macro programming, SAS Advanced programming, SAS Enterprise Miner; SAS Visual Analytics; Hadoop programming; SAS in-database and in-memory programming; MicroStrategy.
- Strong work ethic.
- Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.
- Experience developing communications and presenting to leadership.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Statistics, Economics, or other quantitative field or relevant experience
- Master's degree
- 2-5 years business experience in marketing analysis or analytics consulting leadership
- Experience in an Advanced Analytics environment working with customer analytic systems in SAS and Teradata
- Experience with Power BI and DAX for building dynamic, interactive dashboards
- Experience developing analytic techniques such as forecasting, predictive modeling, segmentation analysis, simulation modeling, data mining
- Experience working in cross-functional teams focused on business/financial analysis, promotional analytics, customer analytics, pricing, merchandising, media analytics
- Experience in a customer-facing industry (traditional or online retailing, retail financial services, etc.)
- Multi-channel (in-store and online) analytics experience
- Advanced and hands-on experience using one or more: SQL programming; SAS Base, SAS Macro, SAS Advanced; SAS Enterprise Miner; SAS Visual Analytics; Hadoop programming; SAS in-database and in-memory programming; MicroStrategy
- Excellent communication skills, including presenting to leadership
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple projects
- Strong work ethic
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
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What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better
