Giant Eagle GCC Looking for Analyst Lead, Category Analytics at Karnataka s Full Time

Job Summary

A critical business partner. This includes among other things, responsibility for financial metrics, reporting, relevant operational metrics, forecasting and analysis. The successful candidate will be a strategic thought partner with a focus on analytics and providing data driven business and financial / operational insights to the relevant stakeholders that will enable sound decision making.

Job Description

• Experience Required: 7+ years in a finance/analytical role; Advanced knowledge of modeling techniques, use of Excel (Power pivot, Power Query, VBA), PowerPoint

• Experience Desired: 4+ years in retail 

• Education Desired: Bachelors Degree

Job Responsibilities

• Lead, ideate, contribute to and ensure delivery and perfect execution of strategic category reviews and associated projects through effectively recommending strategies for merchants, identifying risks and opportunities and proactively calling out outliers for categories

• Build robust processes to ensure 100% accurate and timely analysis for productivity and optimization

• Contribute to a high performing team that will build, monitor, and report out business performance, deliver ad-hoc projects by following practices towards building a state-of-the art delivery organization 

• Serve as a strategic partner during business review meetings and work closely with GE HQ teams to ensure business delivers within approved forecasts / plan / budgets for Category / optimization / productivity

• Drive projects that provide answers to strategic and tactical business questions, while dealing with some level of ambiguity

• Grasp the problem on hand; translate to tangible and usable work product (create ‘what-if scenarios’)

• Recommend suitable approach to solve problems given the facts, data and any other information (financial / operational)

• Manage planning & analysis using various levers- products, inventory, pricing, promotion, business landscape, merchant inputs that play a key role in retail 

• Present the analysis and recommendations to senior team members; leadership on strategic decisions, planned initiatives

• Work with GE HQ to identify opportunities, leverage commonalities and ensure proactive solution build and delivery

• Establish and maintain operational, financial and business metrics 

• Challenge status quo to add diverse perspectives to solve complex business problems with a keen sense of curiosity, understanding, bias to action, customer needs and deliver objective with superior quality 

About the Company

Since our founding in 1931, Giant Eagle, Inc. has evolved into one of the top 40 largest private corporations in the U. S. and one of the country’s largest food retailers and distributors. With more than 37,000 Team Members and $9.7 billion in revenue, we are committed to investing in people, technology, and data to elevate our customer’s experience across multiple touchpoints. It helps us follow on our commitment to serving others and improving our communities.

About Giant Eagle Bangalore

The Giant Eagle GCC in Bangalore is our global capability center. Our team of more than 370 members at the GCC enables us to expand internal capabilities in the areas such as data analytics, merchandising and eCommerce, quality engineering, and automation to generate insights for faster decision-making and helping us accelerate our business strategy. Our team in India plays a pivotal role in helping the company transition to new ways of working by redefining the food and grocery shopping experience for over 4.6 million customers.

About Us

At Giant Eagle Inc., we’re more than just food, fuel and convenience. We’re one giant family of diverse and talented Team Members. Our people are the heart and soul of our company. It’s why we strive to create a nurturing environment that offers countless career opportunities to grow. Deep caring and solid family values are what makes us one of the top work places for jobs in the Greater Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Columbus and Indianapolis Areas. From our Warehouses to our GetGo’s, our grocery Stores through our Corporate home office, we are working together to put food on shoppers’ tables and smiles on their faces. We’re always searching for the best Team Members to welcome to our family. We invite you to join our Giant Eagle family. Come start a lasting career with us.