Analyst, Business Planning & Analytics

Full Time
Boston, MA, USA
2 months ago

Onsite Boston, MA (M-TR)

Wayfair Professional’s North American Business to Business (“B2B”) and Consumer Sales team is seeking a collaborative, solutions-oriented Analyst to join the Global Planning & Analytics team. While our site and app experience allow for seamless self-service, our higher-value customers benefit from sales support. Sales teams establish relationships with purchasing decision-makers, educate customers about Wayfair’s assortment, services, and capabilities, and proactively reach out to intercept emerging needs to help them complete their orders and projects. The Global Planning & Analytics team is responsible for analyzing customer behavior and operational performance to provide visibility, testing, and optimization of business initiatives. The team is highly cross-functional and works closely with Product Management, Engineering, Data Science, Sales Teams, Marketing, and Storefront to grow the B2B and Consumer Sales channels.

We seek a motivated analyst who will partner with business stakeholders and leadership to support our weekly/monthly business reviews and sales program analysis. This will include a close focus on B2B Marketing to evaluate the success of channels/campaigns, customer segmentation, and strategy optimization. The role requires a blend of analytical ability and strong communication skills as the individual will be expected to drive their own workflow and share learnings/takeaways with leadership. The role will report to the Business Planning Lead.

What You’ll Do:

  • Solve difficult, non-routine analysis problems with deep customer focus, applying advanced analytical methods and recommending innovative approaches as needed
  • Support weekly/monthly performance reviews by analyzing past performance with leadership and recommend go forward initiatives to drive long term profitability and alignment with OKRs
  • Support marketing analytics, channel ROI measurement, customer segmentation, and strategy optimization
  • Build a strong understanding of marketing Operations and KPIs that affect overall business performance; help the business understand how key drivers affect the business and how they should be prioritizing efforts across these KPIs
  • Work with several large and complex databases using SQL (Google BigQuery) to synthesize insights used for decision-making; partner with Data Engineering to refine and build new data assets as needed

What You’ll Need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Engineering, Statistics, Actuarial Science, Economics, Business or Finance)
  • Experience with Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, SQL or GBQ, and data visualization tools such as Google Data Studio (Looker, Tableau, or PowerBI)
  • Experience in Python or R preferred but not required
  • Strong analytical background and experience in extracting insights, operating with large data sets to identify trends/takeaways, and communicating recommendations to stakeholders
  • Experience in marketing analytics (ROI measurement, customer segmentation, etc) preferred but not required
  • Excellent problem solving skills including the ability to break down complex, ambiguous problems into logical objectives and execute on next steps
  • Team-first attitude with enthusiasm for cross-functional collaboration
  • High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
  • An entrepreneurial spirit and mindset; you must be adaptable and comfortable with change

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our Accomodations for Applicants form.

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