Data Analyst

Purple Carrot started with just a seed of an idea in 2014. Our vision is a world where plant-based eating is at the core of living well. Every day, on this mission, we’re breaking boundaries with plant-based eating. We value learning from customers, an ownership mindset, integrity, winning together, and being bold. We need your expertise on our team to make things happen!

Purple Carrot’s irresistible, globally-inspired meal-kit recipes and prepared meals using fresh ingredients. We are a team of collaborative individuals who drive for results, strive for doing better, make good choices quickly, and embrace a growth mindset to win or learn. Here’s what you’re up for!

This role is a real opportunity for someone with 2 years of experience to take their skills to the next level with a market leader in plant-based eating. We’re building out our analytics function within the marketing and culinary space to create a customer-first demand model that will power everything from purchasing and menu planning to strategic marketing initiatives at both the campaign and company level.

We have a mature business model and customer base, and a decade of data at our disposal. We have clearly defined needs and objectives in the analytics space, but need the right person to build out the process to get there. We’re a small team with big plans and the motivation to make those plans happen. If you’re hungry, ambitious, and looking to grow your skills and your career - this is the place for you.

To succeed in this role, you’ll need to have a strong sense of ownership, analytical & organizational abilities, and a keen interest in how good data, processes, and tools can drive better decision-making. This is a role with high visibility, a cross-functional workstream and the opportunity to own and iterate on a key business process from end-to-end.

We greatly thank all applicants, however only those under serious consideration will be contacted.

Location

• Purple Carrot HQ is in Needham, MA and prefers local candidates to work in a hybrid model.

On the Plate

• Work closely with the Culinary, Operations, Finance, and Marketing Analytics teams to understand demand forecast drivers and improve the accuracy of demand forecasts.
• Take ownership of our operationally critical demand projections ,then create a new demand planning model and process that improves efficiency and accuracy. Your eventual goal is to develop a bottoms-up projection model built on individual user-level behavior.
• Be the subject-matter-expert for all inputs, outputs, structures, and process flows that impact the projections process.
• Take the lead in responding to questions, issues, and analysis requests related to your areas of expertise cross-functionally across the organization.
• Serve as the lead to run SQL queries of our backend tables for the marketing team.
• Collaborate with fellow analytics colleagues to promote standard methodologies in coding, statistics, and general analysis.
• Ownership of analytics deployments and accountability for multiple streams of work.
• Define and implement end-to-end programs for metrics creation, data collection, reporting and data modeling

Main Ingredients for the Role

• Bachelor’s degree or 2 years of experience in technical forecasting or demand planning
• 2 years of experience in forecasting, planning, and/or reporting systems.
• Experience building, orchestrating, manipulating, and maintaining data transformations using SQL
• Flexibility to adapt to new/unfamiliar tools, data and problems, and experience with or interest in learning programming languages such as Python or R.
• Proficiency in Looker (LookML) or other BI Tools
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities - able to convey the most important information to stakeholders, and to be effective in both technical and non-technical (business) situations
• Curiosity and willingness to explore sophisticated and ambiguous problems and deliver practical insights through both quantitative and qualitative data analysis.
• Experience leading projects end to end

Extra Special Sauce

• Hands-on experience with modern data stack tools (i.e. Snowflake/BigQuery, dbt, Fivetran,)
• Advanced in using Python or R for data analysis
• Understanding of how key marketing channels work (Content, Email, Social Media, SEO, SEM, Display, Affiliate)
• Experience partnering with data and analytics engineering teams to process data for marketing analytics and reporting consumption

Garnish

We love our staff, and show it with benefits (including but not limited to medical, dental, vision, FSA, and life insurance), matching retirement plan, unlimited paid time off, Purple Carrot box allowance, professional development, and the opportunity to work in collaboration with teammates who are passionate about food!

Final Touches

Purple Carrot’s top priority is protecting the health and wellbeing of our team and candidates. The majority of our interviews and assessments occur virtually. If there is a need to interview onsite, we follow COVID-19 guidance from the CDC, WHO, and any state guidelines .

We are committed to a safe and inclusive work environment, free of discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetics, national origin, ancestry, age, medical condition, mental or physical disability, handicap, veteran status, or marital status.