Job Summary
As an Analyst, Merchandise Pricing you will support marketing, merchandising, retail operations and business decisions by leveraging sales and pricing/promotional data across all banners while identifying impact of initiatives and recommending courses of action.
Job Description
This is a remote role with travel to the office as the business needs dictate. Candidates should live within a commutable distance to Giant Eagle’s Headquarters in Cranberry, PA, just north of Pittsburgh.
Key Competencies:
- Experience Required: 3 to 5 years analysis experience in a merchandise pricing capacity
- Experience Desired: 3 years of data analysis and program evaluation for marketing and merchandising; ability to use SQL to deal with various data processing tasks and statistical analysis
- Education Desired: Bachelors Degree
- Travel Required: Regional - Daily, Less than 10%; Regional - Overnight, Less than 10%
Job Responsibilities
- Gather and analyze data using appropriate technical and analytic techniques. Interface with database tables, pull data from different sources (flat files, database tables) and link them logically.
- Have knowledge on how to deal with the inherent structure of the data. Use SQL and other tools to perform standard analysis, profiling, reporting and models to evaluate programs.
- Support marketing and merchandising initiatives by analyzing units, sales, and margin impact from changes in pricing and promotions.
- Develop and maintain knowledge of all internal e.g. Customer Datamart, Data Warehouse and external data that support decision making.
- Synthesize primary and secondary data, prepare and present comprehensive reports of findings, illustrate data graphically and recommend actions from key insights.
- Act as point of contact for data availability questions/expertise throughout the organization.
- Work with a line of business leaders and marketing managers in designing reports and analysis. Participate in cross-functional teams to support new initiatives throughout the organization.
