Senior Data Analyst

The retail industry continues to see unprecedented dynamics as it pivots to a true omni-channel shopping experience. Informed retailers are succeeding, and RDSolutions is providing them with the consultation and critical data services to define, monitor and react to their ever-changing customer preferences and competitor advances. Every day retailers are making million-dollar decisions based on the insights we are providing. RDSolution’s track record spans nearly 40 years in providing retail data and intelligent solutions for virtually every major North American retailer.

About the Role:

We are seeking a Senior Data Analyst to help drive a very exciting product and growth program within our newly formed technology services venture. In response to growing demand from our clients to provide solutions to identify and react to near real time actionable insights, we are expanding our services in data and analytics solutions.

In this role you will be responsible for applying cutting edge analytic approaches to drive insight from our data and to package that insight to be consumed by our clients or internal stakeholders.  Your major focus will be on connecting large and diverse data sources to uncover new approaches to solve critical business problems in and efficient and innovative way. 

What You’ll Do:

• Identify, analyze, interpret, and provide conclusions of metrics, trends, and/or patterns of complex data systems to support business strategy.
• Organize findings from analysis and translate all figures into an understandable document for business usage.
• Perform ad hoc analysis and research using database queries, data manipulation, and geospatial evaluation to support project plans, enhancements, and/or improvements.
• Engage with internal and external stakeholders to translate business problem statements into an analytic gameplay that they can execute.
• Have an intellectual curiosity to want to understand and explain questions and observations in the data.

What You’ll Need:

• Bachelor’s degree plus 3+ years of Data Analytics experience or a Masters’ degree in an analytics centric field and 2+ years of experience.
• Excellent planning, organizational and time management skills.
• Stakeholder management, negotiation and influencing skills.
• At least 2 years of experience in Python and/or other data scripting languages
• At least 2 years of experience utilizing a business intelligence visualization tool (Tableau, Power BI, etc.).
• At least 3 years of experience in querying and analyzing and working with data languages and platforms (SQL) to investigate large and diverse data sets.
• Demonstrated ability to learn and apply newly emerging data analytic toolkits depending on the problem statement.

Benefits:

• Opportunity to work remotely, on a hybrid schedule 
• A competitive base salary plus annual bonus eligibility.
• An international and diverse work environment.
• Opportunity to begin making immediate contributions to the organization.