Strategic Business Intelligence Manager - Remote

Job Responsibilities

• Contribute to weekly intelligence briefs, analyzing and summarizing industry, financial, or economic data with thoughtful ‘So What’ analysis for key stakeholders.
• Create earnings briefs that are shared and reviewed with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead the writing of select First Take earnings briefs on key retailers, suppliers, wholesalers, and other companies, and provide business recommendations for action.
• Ensure consistent and effective brand messaging through all areas of communications, presentations, and updates by conducting primary and secondary research.
• Support senior leaders with ad-hoc and quarterly recaps that feed into both the weekly brief and broader industry presentations.
• Develop reporting strategy, advance the use of data and visualization, and identify value-added enhancements or programs to distill, synthesize, and share intelligence.
• Collect business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, or purchased sources and ensure the integrity of this reporting.
• Create insights reporting by combining disparate pieces of data to uncover insights and create concise and compelling stories to drive the business.
• Lead the development of a collection database, dashboards, and infographics to make insights and implications easy to interpret and act on.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in economics, Market Research, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, or another job-related field.
• 3-5 years equivalent business experience in consulting, consumer/market insights, competitive intelligence, marketing research (preferred).
• Experience with traditional market and consumer research sources (Nielsen, SPINS, NPD, GNPD, Ipsos, Euromonitor, Mintel, etc.).
• Experience in developing models of information and processes for communicating data, especially pertaining to the macro-economic landscape.
• Thorough knowledge of economic and industry trends, opportunities, products, and competitors.
• Strong analytical/data interpretation skills and ability to translate data and analysis into actionable recommendations, pulling through to your own succinct ‘So What’ analysis on why this matters to the industry or business.
• Strong writing (including concise written analysis, grammar, punctuation), communication, and presentation skills.
• Strong understanding of the macro-economic environment with ability to model and forecast as needed.
• Proactively gather information and understand where relevant sources exist.
• Effectively present information internally to the SBI team and management/public groups as needed.
• Comfort in questioning, challenging, and re-working your own analysis, along with the team’s analysis, to push and grow thinking beyond the obvious.
• Experience in listening to and analyzing earnings calls in real-time.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint; highly proficient in Excel and/or some other data visualization software.
• Comfort in working independently, managing your time efficiently, with the ability to prioritize on-going deliverables along with ad-hoc projects.
• An immense level of attention to detail and pride in your work/analysis.
• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.