Director, Advanced Analytics

Director, Advanced Analytics

The Director, Advanced Analytics defines and executes advanced analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value.

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Responsibilities

Defines and executes analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value

• Build scalable analytics capabilities leveraging core infrastructure and data lake environment

• Influence senior leadership with data-driven insights

• Lead business value driving innovation in analytics techniques and methodologies

• Represent analytics in enterprise-wide initiatives

• Partner cross-functionally to identify, build business cases for, and collaborate on POCs and implementations for innovative tools, capabilities, and systems

Qualifications

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree (MBA/MS a plus)

• Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field

• Travel requirement: No travel requirements

Supervisor Responsibility

Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic thinking and enterprise-level analytics leadership

• Expertise in data governance, architecture, and analytics platforms

• Strong understanding of business operations and ability to align analytics with strategic goals

• Proven ability to lead innovation and manage change

• Experience developing and scaling analytics capabilities across departments

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Expertise with Python, SQL, data visualization tools, and performing analyses in data lakes

• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques

• Experience with Agentic AI techniques

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Responsibilities

• Defines and executes analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value

• Build scalable analytics capabilities leveraging core infrastructure and data lake environment

• Influence senior leadership with data-driven insights

• Lead business value driving innovation in analytics techniques and methodologies

• Represent analytics in enterprise-wide initiatives

• Partner cross-functionally to identify, build business cases for, and collaborate on POCs and implementations for innovative tools, capabilities, and systems

Qualifications

• Education Requirements: Bachelor's degree (MBA/MS a plus)

• Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field

• Travel requirement: No travel requirements

Supervisor Responsibility

Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources

Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports

Required Knowledge and Skills

• Strategic thinking and enterprise-level analytics leadership

• Expertise in data governance, architecture, and analytics platforms

• Strong understanding of business operations and ability to align analytics with strategic goals

• Proven ability to lead innovation and manage change

• Experience developing and scaling analytics capabilities across departments

• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Expertise with Python, SQL, data visualization tools, and performing analyses in data lakes

• Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques

• Experience with Agentic AI techniques

Environmental & Physical Requirements
Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties
Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by law.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of associates so classified. The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by law.