Senior Merchandising Analyst - #1697247

Responsible for deriving data-driven, actionable insights that contribute to the overall productivity of Whole Foods stores. Supports Merchandising strategic planning and direction setting by ensuring the best analytical practices and techniques are used to provide recommendations that improve promotional performance at WFM. Drives sales and operational efficiencies through effective evaluation of promotion and merchandising performance. Contributes to analysis and development of improvement recommendations for space and assortment planning, space management, and related processes in support of various Merchandising and Marketing initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Engages with leadership to define analytical requirements associated with new, untested category, merchandising, promotional, assortment, store space and pricing strategy, analysis, and execution.
• Develops analytical tools to understand how new initiatives impact promotion and other merchandising levers that drive top and bottom line, traffic, conversion, and loyalty.
• Works with cross-functional project teams, including Purchasing, Marketing, Regional Operations, Inventory Planning, Replenishment, and Data Science serving as subject matter expert on promotional / merchandising / assortment analysis and processes.
• Leads or plays a lead role in developing standardized promotion, space planning, assortment, and other analytics through ad hoc tools and methodologies.
• Develops multi-faceted analytical approaches to collect customer and related data to assess how space, assortment, pricing, and other factors integrate to impact product performance.
• Produces quantitative-based category space allocation recommendations to improve retail / operational decision-making.
• Executes data storage and reporting for partners in Merchandising, Merchandising Operations, and Regional Leadership.
• Recommends promotional, layout, and other merchandising changes to category managers for revisions that directly contribute to improved category performance, including but not limited to sales, margins and turns.
• Analyzes event and category performance and partners with more senior analysts and leadership to drive the analytical development of the team.
  
  

Skills

• Proven ability to take complex business analyses and projects from concept to completion and make results accessible and relevant to business users at all levels.
• Demonstrates advanced analytical skills.
• Demonstrates advanced ability in the implementation and use of various retail software solutions: POS, pricing, assortment, etc.
• Advanced to expert skills in Microsoft Office applications.
• Demonstrates advanced interpersonal communication skills and levels of tact, diplomacy and confidentiality.
• Communicates effectively with all types of audiences, internally and externally.
• Applies analytical skills to evaluate and interpret multi-faceted and complex data, including customer-related, purchasing, procurement, contract, delivery, quality, and pricing.
• Integrates trends, data and information into forecasts, plans, models and recommendations.
• Possesses clear understanding of WFM’s and supported region / stores business objectives, competitive strengths, and opportunities.
• Understands customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges.
• Demonstrates excellent knowledge of the WFM product mix, supply base, and retail operations.
• Able to play a key and influential role working with others, in groups, in cross-functional settings and with diverse stakeholders internally and externally.
• Models WFM principles and core values.
• Models commitment to customer service.
  
  

Education & Experience

• BA/BS degree and 4-6 years’ relevant experience OR equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  
  

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