Sr. Retail Strategy Analyst - Hopkins, MN

Job Responsibilities

• Analyze vendor funding, trade spend, and markdown activity to maximize ROI and margin rate.
• Provide category leaders with actionable visibility into funding performance, gaps, and opportunities.
• Support promo and pricing decisions using elasticity insights, competitive analysis, and historical performance.
• Build and maintain reporting that tracks sales, margin, units, mix, traffic drivers, and category trends.
• Convert complex data into clear, executive-ready recommendations.
• Lead post-mortem analysis on promotions and major merchandising events and provide concise summaries of what worked, what didn’t, and what actions we should take next.
• Partner closely with Finance to support forecast accuracy, period planning, and risk/opportunity assessments.
• Lead or support cross-functional projects that strengthen Cub’s merchandising processes, tools, and analytical capabilities.

Job Requirements

• Education/ Certifications: Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Data Analytics, or related field.
• Experience: 5-10 years of retail analytics, merchandising finance, pricing, or vendor funding experience.
• Knowledge/Skills/Abilities: Strong communication skills, intellectual curiosity, and a bias for action in a fast-paced environment. Strong knowledge of retail P&L levers, including margin, mix, markdowns, and funding. Experience working with Nielsen/NIQ syndicated data and/or merchandising and promo-planning tools, such as Cognira is strongly preferred. Advanced Excel; experience with Power BI/Tableau and SQL is a strong plus.