Senior Sales Analyst, Albertsons Kroger Foods

Background & Purpose of the Job

This position will support the Foods Customer Business Managers and ad hoc support to the broader Team by providing proactive analysis and insight of business trends, oversight of contracts and forms, monitoring business performance, developing sales presentations, and identifying opportunities and risks impacting the business. This is a developmental role, and successful candidates typically progress to business manager roles thus making business development understanding crucial to success in this role.  

Who You Are & What You’ll Do
The position will require advanced skills in analysis, project management and proficiency in Microsoft Office with exceptional Excel skills. The Sales Analyst is expected to quickly become proficient in Kroger and Albertsons systems such as Market 6 POS system, DemandTec/Tradepoint, 1 World Sync, IRI Market Share, Stratum, Numerator, and various Kroger and Albertsons forms. The Sales analyst is responsible for weekly analysis and reporting of sales trends, shopper analysis, competitive activity and creating actionable insights from the analysis of these trends. The Sales Analyst is expected to regularly meet customer deadlines for monthly sales plan submissions and other ad hoc requests. 

• You’re detail oriented: This position will require meeting cyclical deadlines as well as ad hoc deadlines in addition to proactive business analysis that will identify risks and opportunities to drive competitive growth. The ideal candidate manages these changing priorities and ensure customer and internal deadlines are met. 
• You’re a dot connector: The position will require the ability to retrieve and analyze many different data points from multiple sources and have business acumen to connect these data points quickly to identify emerging trends, determine the resulting business implications and clearly communicate these findings. 
• You have an owner’s mindset: The ideal candidate will see the categories they work on as their own business and have a strong sense of accountability and responsibility to the business. They will be proactive in looking for ways to grow the business and offer solutions and ideas. They will identify issues quickly and effectively work to prevent them in the future. 
• You have a team mindset: In partnership with the Customer Business Manager, the ideal candidate will interact with Kroger and Unilever internal teams to develop a relationship, and lead communication around business operations and data insights. 
• You’re a changemaker: The ideal candidate focuses efforts on continuous improvement, work simplification, and the elimination of non-value-added work that will more effectively produce quality results
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