Senior Merchandising Analytics Lead (Hybrid)

United Natural Foods, Inc.; Edina, Northern (MN, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

United Natural Foods, Inc. seeks a Senior Merchandising Analyst to drive promotional planning, vendor funding oversight, and category performance insights. This role sits at the center of Merchandising and Pricing to inform timely, profitable decisions.

You will build and maintain executive-ready reports, analyze post-promo results, and partner with Finance on forecast accuracy and risk/opportunity assessments while supporting cross-functional merchandising initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or related field.
• 5-10 years of retail analytics, merchandising finance, pricing, or vendor funding experience.
• Strong communication and analytical skills; ability to translate data into actionable insights.
• Proficiency with Excel; experience with Power BI/Tableau and SQL is a strong plus.

Responsibilities

• 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 with actionable next steps.
• Partner 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.

Skills

Strong communication

Retail analytics

Bias for action

Detail orientation

Education

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

Tools

Excel

Power BI

SQL

NIQ data

Cognira

Job description

United Natural Foods, Inc. seeks a Senior Merchandising Analyst to drive promotional planning, vendor funding oversight, and category performance insights. This role sits at the center of Merchandising and Pricing to inform timely, profitable decisions.

You will build and maintain executive-ready reports, analyze post-promo results, and partner with Finance on forecast accuracy and risk/opportunity assessments while supporting cross-functional merchandising initiatives.