Copy of Data Analyst, Sales Operations at SanMar in Remote

Summary: SanMar is a company that supports the Sales Leadership team by providing data analysis and reporting. The Data Analyst, Sales Operations role involves gathering and analyzing sales data, creating reports, and providing insights to aid in strategic decision-making. Responsibilities: - Gather and analyze internal and external sales data to help guide strategic decision making - Create basic to sophisticated ad hoc report requests; use insights from data exploration to prepare basic visualizations and PowerPoint reports - Download required data and create pre-defined reports on set schedule - Support in exploring data files to determine trends and relationships between variables - Assist with qualitative strategic projects by conducting independent research and collaborating with internal stakeholders - Analyze large datasets, draw valid inferences, and present findings to leaders across the Sales Leadership team - Provide input on how critical data and KPIs are addressed in new systems or feature development and build analytics requirements into core systems to ensure comprehensive metrics are supported - Identify data patterns and trends, and provide insights to enhance business decision making capability in business planning, process improvement, solution assessment etc - Gather operational data from various cross functional stakeholders to examine past business performance - Provide documentation and write business requirements to assist with the automation of reporting and data tools - Contribute to periodic audits of data within business systems/platforms - Work with other reporting teams across the organization to ensure data quality and accuracy - Send out reports to stakeholder group and answers basic questions pertaining to the report - Communicate with stakeholders to understand data content and business requirements - Perform other duties as assigned - Comply with all policies and standards Required Qualifications: - Bachelor's Degree in Statistics or equivalent experience - 1-3 years or related experience in data analysis - Expert knowledge of Microsoft Excel Macros and advance formulas - Experience working with disparate data sets, data mining, data/text visualization tools, and creation of dashboards - Experience working within CRMs specifically SalesForce - Basic knowledge or interest about apps support procedures, concepts and other technical areas - Strong oral, written and interpersonal communication skills, must be capable of telling a story that is based on complex data/information to others - Recommend solutions to improve performance based on analysis - Must have excellent organizational and time management skills - Ability and willingness to learn new technologies and methodologies Required Skills: Data analysis, Microsoft Excel Macros, SalesForce Important Skills: Data mining, Data visualization tools Nice-to-Have Skills: Willingness to learn, Communication skills, Organizational skills, Time management Benefits: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, 401k plan and matches $1 for $1 up to 4% of earnings, matched & vested at every pay cycle, Life insurance, Short/long-term disability coverage, Paid maternity/paternity leave, Pet insurance