Sr Sales Analyst

Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
The Senior Sales Analyst engages with Sales Leadership, using a consultative approach to understand the business needs and strategies. This role provides insightful analysis to support Leadership's decision making through the design and development of reporting, analyzing business processes, and executing projects that align with the business needs and strategies. The Sr. Sales Analyst ensures the integrity, consistency, and scalability of CDW's sales reporting, while developing standard reporting processes and governance
Responsibilities:

• Identify key ideas and business needs from C-level Executives, independently perform the analysis to generate actionable business insights, and present to the Executive Teams.
• Perform data preparation work (e.g., source, scrub, mine, and integrate relevant data sources) needed for the delivery of analytics and data visualization solutions
• Produce sound analysis from large raw data sets to support sales leadership to drive tactical and strategic departmental objectives and partnership decisions
• Communicate analysis and key findings to leaders clearly, concisely and timely
• Develop and maintain the consultative relationships with key business stakeholders, proactively identifying and addressing business intelligence needs
• Conduct a variety of ad-hoc analysis based on business needs
• Report data using SQL and Power BI in an Enterprise Data Warehouse environment
• Evaluates current reporting and processes and proactively implements improved methods and tools and reduce friction in data-heavy processes and automation, and trains impacted users.
• Work closely with other staff to identify levels of effort and task dependencies for assigned projects
• Act as a liaison between the business and IT on all technical sales projects
• Create and maintain technical documentation based on standard operating procedures
• Innovate new self-serve reporting capabilities on key metrics by leveraging world-class business intelligence tools
• Provide thought leadership on data governance processes and strategies to maximize data integrity and minimize business risk

Education and/or Experience Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 5+ years analyst experience with sales analysis, business intelligence, financial analysis, econometrics, or statistics
• Expert-level Excel skills (will be tested)
• Excellent analytical skills. Demonstrated ability to analyze large volumes of raw data, draw conclusions, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
• Must demonstrate the ability to handle multiple priorities and deadlines with independent judgment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interact with and present to directors and VPs
• Proven ability to build and maintain strong cross functional relationships
• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications
• Ability to work and make key decisions independently
• Power BI or business intelligence tool experience
• SQL development, optimization, and data extraction to Microsoft Best Practices with relational and multidimensional database queries
• Data warehouse experience

Preferred Qualifications:

• Six Sigma Certification or equivalent process improvement experience
• Project management experience
• Salesforce reporting experience

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/