What are the responsibilities and job description for the Insights Analyst position at Sinco Inc?
Company: Sinco Inc.
Job Title: Insights Analyst
Location: Newton, MA
Sinco is a sales and marketing company with teams working in club, retail and grocery channels for the sale of food and consumer products. We work with some of the largest and most exciting branded and private label suppliers.
Our mission is to connect and represent best-in-class domestic and international suppliers to various retail customers with a focus on strong partnerships and problem-solving to bring efficiency to the sales process. We represent our suppliers with integrity, dedication and hands-on customer service.
Job Description
The Analyst will be responsible for analyzing syndicated and direct retail data to provide business insights and actionable recommendations to improve sales and profitability. The Analyst will report to Sinco's Data Analytics Director.
The candidate will be one of Sinco’s ‘go-to’ data insights resources and will be asked to conduct high-quality analysis, while leveraging effective communication. This individual will support Sinco’s growth strategy through data analysis and work cross-functionally with other team members from category management, sales, marketing, and analytics.
The candidate will live at the intersection between data analytics and retail . The candidate must employ a strong sense of curiosity, desire to continuously learn, and a passion for analyzing data to dig deeper and answer the “why”?
Responsibilities
- Extract and analyze syndicated and direct retailer data from various databases and platforms.
- Identify insights and specific opportunities based on analysis of retail and category data and provide recommendations to the account team. Project work will include analytics related to sales reviews, category reviews, overall business trends, assortment etc.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis and complete ad-hoc category management reports, trend analysis, and special project work for internal / external leaders as necessary.
- Generate periodically scheduled reports. Clearly communicate and articulate compelling business insights with data and context, verbally, in writing, and through presentations with impactful visualizations.
- Develop dashboards that enable leadership to track the sales of Sinco suppliers and import and quickly understand market trends and opportunities.
- Continuously learn. Keep abreast of developments and best practices in data analytics and retail, pursue the knowledge needed to improve capabilities.
Qualifications
Need to Have:
- Undergraduate degree.
- A minimum of 4 years of data analytics experience in consumer goods or retail.
- Extensive experience analyzing syndicated data to drive sales and share growth.
- Experience with Nielsen or IRI or similar databases.
- High level Excel skills. Highly skilled in other Microsoft Office Suite applications (Word and PowerPoint).
- Strong communication skills including verbal, presentation, and written capabilities.
- Strong data visualization skills.
- Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills.
- Customer service orientation.
- Capacity to work independently with a high degree of personal motivation.
Nice to Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Accounting, Data Analytics, or related field.
- Experience in category management.
- Experience working in Club Channel is a plus.
- Experience with Numerator or other panel data platforms.
- Experience with SQL, Tableau, Microsoft PowerBI, Alteryx.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $75,000.00 - $85,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
Compensation package:
- Performance bonus
- Yearly pay
Experience level:
- 3 years
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Retail: 4 years (Required)
- Nielsen/IRI: 2 years (Required)
- Data analytics: 4 years (Required)
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Newton, MA 02458
Salary : $75,000 - $85,000
