This is a hybrid position based out of our Boston, MA office (Mon - Thurs Onsite, Friday Remote).

Who We Are

Wayfair is the destination for all things home: helping everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home. Wayfair’spromotions aim to improve the customer buying experience by delivering exciting and inspiring moments through surfacing deals and aiding discovery of new products. The Promotions Analytics team is focused on testing new ideas, informing strategy change and working to scale processes for Wayfair promotions.  

We are looking for an Analyst to join our team and leverage data-driven decision making, technical expertise, and strong communication skills through work with our Promotions, Specialty Retail Brand, marketing, and operations teams to deliver a best in class Promotions experience for Wayfair customers. This role provides a distinct opportunity to influence decisions that have significant impact on the Promotions function at Wayfair. Promotions Analysts constantly use data to drive profitable top line revenue for Promotions events, while working cross-functionally to optimize event concepting, products selection and value proposition. In addition, building business logic and automation capabilities to scale Wayfair promotions offerings are a core focus of the role. Our Analysts play a key role in building cutting edge ‘Big Data’ and leveraging these unique, proprietary, and  datasets, coupled with a constant flow of experimentation on consumer response to answer thorny questions that guide the Wayfair promotions strategy.

What You’ll Do

• Effectively communicate actionable insights across a wide audience with varying technical expertise, including Senior Leadership and other partners in our Promotions, Specialty Retail Brands, Exclusive Brands, marketing, and operations teams. 
• Leverage BI tooling to develop easily digestible and user friendly data visualizations, reporting, and data solutions, and train our partners on relevant applications to promote long term adoption of these products. 
• Ensure our promotions, operations and marketing partners have the tools, data, and reporting they need to make decisions, especially those around assortment creation, promotions, branding, and marketing.
• Approach broad and complex problems from a technical lens, supporting automation, big data management and comprehension, and predictive analytics and modeling to generate applicable insights and recommendations.
• Work closely with analytics and data engineering partners across all areas of the business to create accurate and high-impact solutions to address opportunity areas within the organization.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in analytics, statistics, economics, finance, or a related field
• 0-2 years of experience in a quantitative or analytical role
• Strong consultative skills: ability to work effectively and persuasively with a highly cross- functional group of business partners
• Strong business acumen: ability to understand how various parts of the business interact; can identify and approach problems from a customer or supplier perspective
• Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills: excited about working with and synthesizing big data into actionable insights; comfortable using data software to conduct analyses and synthesize findings
• Exceptional problem-solving and execution skills: ability to make decisions, reprioritize tasks, and draw conclusions in the face of ambiguity
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient with Microsoft Excel
• Familiarity with any programming language is a plus, including motivation to learn and develop the skill-set (Google BigQuery/SQL, R, Python)

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected characteristic.

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