Business Analyst 2

About the Role

We are seeking a contract Business Analyst to support Global Partner Stores within the Converse Global Growth organization. This role will provide critical maternity leave coverage for business analysis, data management, reporting, and partner performance support across Converse Global Partner retail stores.

Responsibilities

• Manage and validate monthly Global Partner store data, ensuring partner submissions are uploaded, complete, accurate, and ready for analysis.
• Support monthly business reporting, dashboards, and insights to help stakeholders understand Global Partner store performance.
• Prepare analysis and reporting for quarterly partner business meetings, including performance trends, opportunities, and key discussion inputs.
• Support retail fee processes by helping accrue annual retail revenues and validating partner sales data used in retail fee calculations.
• Assist in building bottoms-up annual financial targets and revenue plans by store.
• Support onboarding of new partners into business analytics platforms, reporting processes, and tools.
• Partner with business stakeholders to complete ad hoc analysis related to store performance, revenue, partner trends, and business opportunities.
• Identify data quality issues, reporting gaps, or process risks and escalate them appropriately.
• Help maintain continuity in business management rhythms while key team members are on leave.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• 2+ years of experience in business analysis, retail analytics, commercial reporting, finance support, or a related analytical role.
• Strong Excel and data management skills.
• Experience with dashboards, reporting tools (Sigma, Tableau), or analytics platforms preferred.
• Ability to validate, reconcile, and manage recurring business data with strong attention to detail.
• Experience working with retail, wholesale, partner, e-commerce, or consumer business data preferred.
• Comfort preparing performance reports, identifying trends, and summarizing insights for business stakeholders.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage recurring monthly and quarterly deliverables.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to flag risks, ask the right questions, and explain findings simply.
• Ability to work independently, manage deadlines, and support multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment.
• Bias toward accuracy, follow-through, and practical business impact.

Qualifications

• Minimum required years of experience: 2, preferably more.
• Education requirements: Minimum Bachelor's degree, with the right experience education not important.
• Must have skills: Relevant experience in analytics, 2 yrs in some form of business analysis, data analytics.
• Nice to have skills: Experience in connecting BI tools to data, building data to talk with other tools (Full Stack), cleaning/validating data.
• Software/technical requirements: Excel-advanced, BI tools (Tableau, Sigma-preferred).
• Previous Nike/industry experience preference: Yes, any kind of retail would be good.

Interview Details

• Interviewers: Hiring Manager and 1 team member.
• Number of Rounds: 1.
• Duration of Interview: 45 minutes.

Work Details

Location: Boston - hybrid (2-day minimum in office, heavier at the beginning).
Time Zone: Not specified.
Expected Work Schedule: Not specified.
Travel: No.
Contract Length: ASAP through January.
Team Details: Partner Stores by Converse - manage all reporting and analysis; work closely with HM, Dir of Stores Excellence, Sr Dir of Global Partners Business.

Pay

Bill Rate: $50 Hourly OT40.