Business Analyst - BI/SQL/Data Mining - Retail

1. External Job title:Business Analyst (BA)

2. External Job Description

Retail category teams are responsible for shopper metrics of product availability, product pricing and convenience via reduced delivery time. The BA will play a key role in contributing to the success of each focus area, by partnering with respective business owners and leveraging data to identify areas of improvement & optimization. He / She will build deliverables like business processes, pricing behaviour analysis, campaign analysis, inventory placement analysis etc. that will contribute towards business decision making and can scale with growth. The role sits in the sweet spot between back-end operations and front-end shopper campaigns and provides an opportunity for growth, high business impact and working with seasoned business leaders.

An ideal candidate will be someone with sound technical background in data analytics, has solid business acumen and a strong solution oriented thought process. Will be a self-starter who can start with a business problem and work backwards to conceive & devise best possible solution. Is a great communicator and at ease on partnering with business owners and other internal / external teams. Can explore newer technology options, if need be, and has a high sense of ownership over every deliverable by the team. Is constantly obsessed with customer delight & business impact / end result and - gets it done- in business time.

3. Basic Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field from an accredited institution

- 1-2 years of developing end-to-end Business Intelligence solutions: data modelling and reporting

- Proven analytical and quantitative ability and a passion for enabling customers to use data and metrics to back up assumptions, develop business cases, and complete root cause analyses.

- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including an ability to effectively lead and influence interactions with both business and operations teams.

- Basic SQL writing and experience in data mining (SQL, ETL, data warehouse, etc.) and using databases in a business environment with complex datasets

4. Preferred Qualifications

- Solid project management skills

- Ability to take loosely defined business questions and translate them into clearly defined technical/data specifications for implementation