Senior Merchandising Analytics & ROI Lead

Cub; Minneapolis (MN); Hybride; USD 90 000 - 120 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Paid Time Off

401K Program

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Flexible Spending Account

Résumé du poste

UNFI is seeking a Senior Merchandising Analyst in Minnesota to bring rigor to promotional planning, vendor funding management, and category performance tracking. You will drive margin investments and provide executive-ready insights to guide timely, profitable decisions.

You will analyze trade spend, price elasticity, and historical performance, building dashboards with Power BI/Tableau and collaborating with Finance to improve forecast accuracy and period planning.

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.
• Experience with Nielsen/NIQ syndicated data and/or merchandising and promo‑planning tools such as Cognira is strongly preferred.

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.

Connaissances

Strong communication

Retail analytics

P&L levers knowledge

SQL

Power BI/Tableau

Cognira

Formation

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Business/Data Analytics

Outils

Cognira

Nielsen/NIQ data

SQL

Power BI/Tableau

Excel

Description du poste

UNFI is seeking a Senior Merchandising Analyst in Minnesota to bring rigor to promotional planning, vendor funding management, and category performance tracking. You will drive margin investments and provide executive-ready insights to guide timely, profitable decisions.

You will analyze trade spend, price elasticity, and historical performance, building dashboards with Power BI/Tableau and collaborating with Finance to improve forecast accuracy and period planning.