Business Analyst, Promotions Analytics, Whole Foods Market

About the role

Whole Foods Market is seeking a Business Analyst to join the Promotion Analytics team. This role involves owning end-to-end analyses that drive promotional strategy, serving as the analytics expert for your business area.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end promotional analytics—scope, design, execute, and communicate analyses that inform merchandising strategy and campaign optimization
• Build scalable, self-serve reporting frameworks in QuickSight and Redshift SQL that enable stakeholders to access insights without analyst dependency
• Serve as the analytics subject-matter expert for your business area, proactively identifying trends, risks, and opportunities in promotional performance data
• Drive recommendations to senior leadership—translate findings into clear, actionable recommendations that influence promotional strategy and investment decisions
• Accelerate time-to-insight by leveraging emerging AI capabilities and automation to streamline data workflows and expand analytics coverage into new areas of the business
• Analyze market, competitor, behavioral, and transactional data to evaluate promotional effectiveness, customer engagement, and shopping behavior
• Design and refine measurement approaches—develop frameworks for evaluating promotional ROI, incrementality, and program performance
• Provide technical guidance to peers—mentor junior analysts and contribute to team best practices for data modeling, visualization, and analytical rigor
• Partner cross-functionally with Program Managers, Category Merchandising, and Marketing to align analytics with business objectives and planning cycles
• Lead insights reviews—synthesize findings, present to Director+ audiences, and provide forward-looking recommendations that inform planning

Qualifications

• 4+ years of business analyst, data analyst or similar role experience
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
• Experience defining requirements and using data and metrics to draw business insights
• Experience with Excel
• Experience with SQL
• Experience making business recommendations and influencing stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience delivering complex, data-driven recommendations to senior leaders
• Experience with reporting and Data Visualization tools such as Quick Sight / Tableau / Power BI or other BI packages
• Experience with data scripting languages (e.g., SQL, Python, R, or equivalent) or statistical/mathematical software (e.g., R, SAS, Matlab, or equivalent)
• Grocery, retail, or CPG industry experience
• Familiarity with promotional measurement, incrementality testing, or marketing analytics
• Experience with Amazon Redshift or similar cloud data warehouse platforms
• Experience applying AI/ML tools or emerging technologies to accelerate analytics workflows

Pay

The base salary range for this position is $74,300.00 - $130,100.00 USD annually.