Business Analyst - Austin, United States - Whole Foods Market

Whole Foods Market

Verified Company

Austin, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

beBee recruiter

Description

Job Description:

Whole Foods Market is hiring a business analyst to work within our operations analytics team.

In this role, you'll be harnessing the power of diverse data platforms and analytical tools to evaluate and transform data into meaningful business insights.

Your focus will involve crafting tools that automate reporting, offering partners a swift and precise view of WFM stores, regions, products, and process performance.

You'll be a force behind using data to shape business and retail decisions throughout the company.

Your knack for identifying, developing, and executing data analyses will play a key role in uncovering untapped areas of business opportunity.

You'll demonstrate understanding of business objectives, competitive strengths, and opportunities of WFM and supported stores by leveraging knowledge of trends across customers, markets, and competitors to make pivotal business improvement recommendations.

This role is located in Austin, TX or within one of our Store Support Field offices. You will be required to be in office at least three days per week. This role is not open to full remote.

Some primary responsibilities will be:
'‹Serve as an analytical partner, performance steward, and advocate to operations leadership teams and other Store Support business partners : Â

You'll be responsible for monitoring program goals and the mission of the operations team when interacting with various business partners. May act as a member of working groups, providing guidance, coordination, review, and insight, while acting independently to leverage crossfunctional partnerships in support of business initiatives and driving sustainable improvement within results. Â

Provide insights, highlight opportunities, and drive action with Store Support and Operational Area leadership : Â

You'll c oordinate followups, including monitoring highlevel KPI metrics on stores, metros, regions, and programs demonstrating an understanding of the primary business drivers; and focuses on storelevel opportunities such as new store support, pilots, and/or underperforming stores/CBSAs, as well as regional opportunities such as indepth category analysis, controllable expense challenges, and/or benchmarking performance. Â

Seeks to better understand business drivers, identify notable trends and recommend operational process improvements. Â

Creates executive recaps for business reviews discussing performance, challenges, and opportunities with Operations leadership or with Store Support business partners and leaders. Translates business problem statements into analysis/toolset requirements, dissecting new product/process launches, and correlating business processes to financial results while anticipating constraints and incorporating them into program considerations. Â

Professional Knowledge:

Demonstrates understanding of industrystandard business drivers (Sales, Gross Margin, Labor, and Operational Expenses), with the ability to learn financial statement monitoring and gain an indepth understanding of company, departmental, and Retail Operations SOPs. Demonstrates ability to learn navigation, manipulation, and analyzation of large data sets

Additional responsibilities and characteristics include:

Demonstrates interpersonal communication skills, tact, diplomacy, and confidentiality, producing concise presentations for leadership while tailoring communication to varying skillsets and levels.
Includes cultivating a sense of community through collaboration, supporting a philosophy of shared fate with selfresponsibility, and consistently seeks and provides critical feedback.
The individual is comfortable in presenting information, responding to questions, and creatively adapting to unexpected obstacles, ensuring the generation of quality, errorfree deliverables.

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