Analyst, Business Intelligence - , Karnataka, India - Giant Eagle GCC

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Job Summary

This position will be a critical business partner. This includes among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, relevant operational metrics, forecasting, and analysis. The successful candidate will be a strategic thought partner with a focus on analytics and providing data driven business and financial / operational insights to the relevant stakeholders that will enable sound decision making.

Job Description

• Analyst- Business Intelligence Grow. Learn. Thrive. Giant Eagle is where your career can soar high. At Giant Eagle, you are so much more than an employee. You are part of the Family.
  About the Company Since our founding in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has evolved into one of the top 40 largest private corporations in the U. S. and one of the country's largest food retailers and distributors. With more than 37,000 Team Members and $9.7billion in revenue, we are committed to investing in people, technology, and data to elevate our customer's experience across multiple touchpoints. It helps us follow on our commitment to serving others and improving our communities.
  About Giant Eagle Bangalore The Giant Eagle GCC in Bangalore is our global capability centre. Our team of more than 350 members at the GCC enables us to expand internal capabilities in the areas such as data analytics, merchandising and eCommerce, quality engineering, and automation to generate insights for faster decision-making and help us accelerate our business strategy. Our team in India plays a pivotal role in helping the company transition to new ways of working by redefining the food and grocery shopping experience for over 4.6 million customers. Job Responsibilities
• The role is a balance between management of daily tasks along with development of reporting, front end tools, and solutions to support ASF Support Leadership and their respective team.
• The focus of this role will be to develop solutions that give the decision maker or analyst the information that the need when they need it.
• The business is tasked with managing 20k+ SKU's and in an environment with tight margins, timely insights are a key differentiator.
• It is essential that the solutions that our team develops are built with the specific needs of the end user in mind.
• This position will have exposure across all business functions including (but not limited to): financial planning, category analytics, promo optimization, pricing strategy, space/inventory analytics, competitive intelligence, and operations.
• Build robust processes to ensure 100% accurate and timely analysis for productivity and optimization.
• Contribute to a high performing team that will build, monitor, and report out business performance, deliver adhoc projects by following practices towards building a state-of-the art delivery organization.
• Drive projects that provide answers to strategic and tactical business questions, while dealing with some level of ambiguity
  • Grasp the problem on hand; translate to tangible and usable work product (create 'what-if scenarios')
  • Recommend suitable approach to solve problems given the facts, data, and any other information (financial / operational)
  • Strong narratives with impact – (why, what, how) to influence decision making
  • Manage planning & analysis using various levers- products, inventory, pricing, promotion, business landscape, merchant inputs that play a key role in retail
  • Present the analysis and recommendations to senior team members; leadership on strategic decisions, planned initiatives
• Establish and maintain operational, financial, and business metrics
• Challenge status quo to add diverse perspectives to solve complex business problems with a keen sense of curiosity, understanding, bias to action, customer needs and deliver objective with superior quality
• Pursue self-development; seek performance feedback; adapt and learn from change
• Basic Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree/ Master's Degree- Business, Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Quantitative fields of study.
• 1-3 years of experience in a Business Intelligence / Data Analytical role.
• Preferable 1+ years in retail.
• Sharp analytical bent of mind along with good business acumen and understanding.
• Experience working with large sets of data
• Advanced knowledge of modeling techniques, use of Excel (Power pivot, Power Query, VBA, Power Automate), Power BI, SQL, Python, PowerPoint
• Strong work ethic based on desire to exceed expectations.
• Other Expectations
• Strong Data visualization skills; Strong retail knowledge
• Ability to adapt in a fast paced and rapidly changing environment.
• Strong business understanding and know-how; connect the dots and translate the 'why'
• Strong interpersonal and influencing abilities and superior liaising skills
• Strong communication skills – manage upwards, peers and HQ teams

About Us

At Giant Eagle Inc., we're more than just food, fuel and convenience. We're one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members. Our people are the heart and soul of our company. It's why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow. Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top work places for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas. From our Warehouses to our GetGo's, our grocery Stores through our Corporate home office, we are working together to put food on shoppers' tables and smiles on their faces. We're always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family. We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family. Come start a lasting career with us.