Senior Merchandising Analytics Lead (Hybrid)

United Natural Foods, Inc.; Edina (MN); Hybride; USD 85 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Paid Time Off

Sick Time

paid holidays and parental leave

401K Program

medical, dental, vision, life, and AD&

short-term and long-term disability

Résumé du poste

United Natural Foods, Inc. in Edina, MN is seeking a Senior Merchandising Analyst who will bring rigor to promotional planning, vendor funding management, category performance tracking, and margin investment decisions.

Sitting at the center of Merchandising and Pricing, this role provides the insights our teams rely on to make timely, confident, and profitable decisions. You will analyze vendor funding, trade spend, and markdown activity to maximize ROI, build executive-ready reports, and

Qualifications

• 5-10 years of retail analytics, merchandising finance, pricing, or vendor funding experience.
• Strong communication skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong knowledge of retail P&L levers, including margin, mix, markdowns, and funding.
• Experience with Nielsen/NIQ syndicated data and Cognira is strongly preferred.
• Advanced Excel; experience with Power BI/Tableau and SQL is a strong plus.

Responsabilités

• Analyze vendor funding, trade spend, and markdown activity to maximize ROI and margin rate.
• Provide category leaders with actionable visibility into funding performance, gaps, and opportunities.
• Support promo and pricing decisions using elasticity insights, competitive analysis, and historical performance.
• Build and maintain reporting that tracks sales, margin, units, mix, traffic drivers, and category trends.
• Convert complex data into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Lead post-mortem analysis on promotions and major merchandising events and provide concise summaries of what worked, what didn’t, and what actions we should take next.
• Partner closely with Finance to support forecast accuracy, period planning, and risk/opportunity assessments.
• Lead or support cross-functional projects that strengthen Cub’s merchandising processes, tools, and analytical capabilities.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Connaissances

Strong communication

Retail P&L levers

Nielsen/NIQ data experience

Elasticity analysis

Formation

Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or related field

Outils

Cognira

Power BI

Tableau

SQL

Description du poste

United Natural Foods, Inc. in Edina, MN is seeking a Senior Merchandising Analyst who will bring rigor to promotional planning, vendor funding management, category performance tracking, and margin investment decisions.

Sitting at the center of Merchandising and Pricing, this role provides the insights our teams rely on to make timely, confident, and profitable decisions. You will analyze vendor funding, trade spend, and markdown activity to maximize ROI, build executive-ready reports, and