Sr. Reporting Analyst

Category/Area of Expertise: Procurement & Logistics
Job Requisition: 451168
Address: USA-NC-Salisbury-2110 Executive Drive
Store Code: Services (5120897)

Ahold Delhaize USA, a division of global food retailer Ahold Delhaize, is part of the U.S. family of brands, which includes five leading omnichannel grocery brands - Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. Our associates support the brands with a wide range of services, including Finance, Legal, Sustainability, Commercial, Digital and E-commerce, Technology and more.

Responsible for supporting the day-to-day activities of a selling organization culture with a consumer-centric focus through analytics and reporting. Responsible for creating and maintaining all demand management reporting needs, ensuring user knowledge through ongoing and ad hoc reports and analysis, and driving consultation with demand leaders on reporting and data recommendations. Also responsible for performing skilled analytics to identify impacts and linkage to Demand and Supply Chain strategy, using business modeling and analysis to solve complex problems or identify opportunities and trends through large data sets. This role excels at telling stories with data and simplifying and presenting the relevant information to help the Demand leadership team make informed, data-driven decisions.

***Our flexible/ hybrid work schedule includes 3 in-person days at one of our core locations and 2 remote days. Our core office locations include Salisbury, NC & Scarborough, ME

Essential job functions:

• Support Demand and Supply Chain through effective execution of reporting and data analysis that will enhance strategies and initiatives.

• Extensive cross collaboration representing Demand leadership across Supply Chain, IT, Data Governance teams to ensure data integrity.

• Lead design sessions with key stakeholders across Supply Chain (including In Stock, Logistics, Control Tower, Training & Process) to develop core requirements for reporting and establish most effective user interface and modeling.

• Leverage database systems including data warehouses, data marts, and models needed for business, financial, and operational analysis and/or reporting and visualization

• Automate and optimize reporting of strategic business processes

• Assist lead in assigning priority level of requests and leads weekly SCRUM session to adjust resource assignments as needed

• Responsible for reporting and interpretating key metrics determined in collaboration with Demand and Supply Chain leadership, as well as ad hoc requests.

• Work collaboratively to understand the purpose of the data request and create metrics, data content and formatting to meet the needs of the requestor.

• Support the lead in designing the architecture of data flows utilizing advanced knowledge of the available software & hardware solutions, including implementation of security protocols to ensure the right data is accessible by the right users

• Independently identify and perform complex correlation analyses for areas of focus in order to present results and recommendations in a clear concise manner.

• Routinely translate large amounts of data into actionable findings and format into presentation-ready documentation that tells a clear story and can be used to support business reviews with Demand leaders on a regular cadence.

• Develop presentations utilized to communicate meaningful results, trends, and insights regarding the performance of key strategic initiatives.

• Provide analytics and reports that translate Demand data into accurate, insightful, and predictive information for leaders to determine priorities and solutions. Make recommendations as to whether changes will be effective before making a decision.

• Subject matter expert support for data analytics tools with emphasis on learning and developing new analysis/reporting capabilities.

• Provide support for the function as an effective promoter of change and growth through data driven decisions.

• Serve as a member of key teams, projects and committees as needed.

• Determines and uses key metrics to evaluate success of implemented data solutions; design and implement modifications as necessary to ensure goal attainment

• Provide indirect supervision of team Analysts

• Additional job duties may be assigned as needed to meet the needs of the business and support our Values.

• Seasoned level of knowledge of company, business, and industry practices

• Supply Chain methodologies

• Statistical analysis software

• Data mining tools

• Expert Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint

• Information management experience to include, business intelligence reporting, data warehouse/ETL, analytics and/or data analysis experience

• Excellent organizational, planning, influence, communication, and presentation skills

• Root cause analysis skills

• Correlation analysis skills

• Prioritization and time management skills

• Problem solving skills

• Data visualization / analytical tools (e.g. Alteryx, Power BI)

• Ability to manage day to day activity in support of identified business area and functional area strategies

• Ability to distill complicated data and analysis into actionable recommendations and guidance.

• Ability to influence organizational alignment across multiple business areas

• Ability to think innovatively and creatively

• Ability to plan, multi-task and manage time effectively

• Active listener with an ability to build trust across varying levels of the organization

• Demonstrate a personal acceptance of change and the ability to adapt and drive change

• Self-motivated and persuasive in presenting and selling ideas and executing their implementation

• Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience

• Analytics certifications preferred

• 5-7 years relevant experience

• Experience with Microsoft Reporting tools and other Data Visualization and BI tools (Tableau, Qlik, Power BI, Alteryx)

• Experience with database technologies such as SQL Server, Oracle or Redshift

• Hands on Microsoft Power BI experience including data visualization design, development, and implementation, building dashboards/apps and customization to me