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Data Operations Analyst | Whole Foods Market Merchandising Department
Job Description: Responsible for the organization and flow of departmental and product data. Ensures data integrity, accuracy, completeness and timeliness. Ensures data is entered into hosting systems in accordance with maintenance schedule and policies. Serves as premier source for accurate, timely, relevant, and actionable information and analysis to affect operational decisions and process improvements.
Responsibilities:
- Provides meaningful reports and analyses relating to sales, margins, losses, expenses, and associated business processes.
- Understands, extracts, validates, corrects, and defines data from multiple internal and external sources.
- Assesses data quality, troubleshoots data anomalies and coding errors, maintaining data and reporting integrity.
- Collaborates with other data and merchandising analysts to prioritize and define data and associated analytical requirements.
- Joins data elements from various resource systems and builds datasets accordingly.
- Collaborates cross-functionally to ensure data-driven insights are understood and applied to business, operational, and other process improvement efforts.
- Updates and enhances existing reports and creates/modifies dashboards to help users better understand business and operational metrics.
Skills:
- Understands and applies data operations concepts, principles, and practices.
- Able to perform routine to moderately complex data analyses.
- Working knowledge of standard data analysis tools, such as SAS, SPSS, Teredata warehouse miner, SQL, and Alteryx.
- Advanced in Microsoft Excel
- Understands and applies statistics to data mining and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and listening.
- Understands the necessity of tailoring communication to meet audience needs.
- Able to communicate highly technical subjects in a manner that is easily understood by non-technical audiences.
- Establishes work priorities and deadlines based on assignment/project requirements.
- Determines how best to organize and complete assignments.
- Solves problems with ambiguous and sometimes incomplete information.
- Works on non-routine or novel assignments.
- Understands how and when to deviate from standard protocol.
- Mentors and advises less experienced Team Members on how to analyze problems and complete assigned tasks.
- Able to understand WFM’s and supported region/stores' business objectives.
- Demonstrates keen interest in Organics, Fair Trade and the Natural Foods industry.
- Develops an understanding of the WFM business and management processes, product mix, supply base, and retail operations.
Education & Experience:
- High school diploma and 4+ years’ relevant experience.
- Associates degree, technical college or some college coursework preferred.
