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Retailer - Vendor Supply Chain Data Coordinator - Lead

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We are seeking a Senior Manager that will leverage your knowledge of how retailers and vendors use supply chain data to optimize sales for the retailer. You will develop an understanding for our clients\' unique business needs, then work with a team to explain, build, manage, and enhance our solutions around the problems our partners are trying to solve. Engage with assigned retailer and support its suppliers to migrate reporting from the legacy reporting platform to the new portal powered by Circana\'s Unify. Educating the retailer\'s internal team to be Unify ambassadors and communicate the value of the new platform. By developing actionable workflows within the platform that help drive incremental sales, optimize inventory levels, reduce supply chain overhead costs, and automate manual reporting and execution.

What will you be doing?

You will be part of the portfolio enablement team supporting a leading automotive retailer and their vendor partners. We focus on driving clarity out of the complexity of our data portfolio, market dynamics, and supply & demand. You will work collaboratively with other internal Circana team members as well as retailer and vendor partners to deliver best-in-class reporting and analyses.

Job Responsibilities

• Ability to speak Supply Chain based on experience working with retailer and/or at a supplier working with retailer supply chain data.
• Share knowledge of supply chain reporting and how vendors and retailers can partner together to maximize the collaboration for the benefit to the retailer with greater in-stocks, increased sales and improved inventory turns.
• Partner with strategic suppliers to develop collaborative workflows that can be replicated and scaled throughout the retailer\'s supplier ecosystem.
• Develop and host retailer catered Unify training and continuing education.
• Implement a program for value tracking measurement, ensuring that there are measurable results from the actions taken against the insights.
• Develop high level competence of Circana\'s data assets. Serve as a subject matter expert on the program supporting retailer as they maintain and continue to lead the direct monetization program with the vendors
• Execute and maintain retailer reporting in Circana Unify User Experience platform.
• Organize reporting into stories to support common analysis paths using User Experience tool Genius Script.
• Ability to execute ad-hoc data pulls and analyses for retailer with high client satisfaction.
• Promote use of latest Circana innovations and improvements to drive client business growth.
• Identify and implement process improvements and best practice sharing opportunities.
• Lead client training initiatives on Circana platform & tools to aid self-service usage.

Requirements

• Bachelor\'s Degree required in Marketing, Business, or related field with a quantitative component.
• Minimum 3-5 years\' experience providing ata driven insights for Supply Chain and/or POS data analytics for Retail or Supplier clients.
• Strong background in working with item/retail/day data sets and distilling insight and developing action plans from data.
• Strong capability developing custom reporting for clients and/or adapting reporting to better fit for the client
• Passion for consulting utilizing data and analytics.
• An inquisitive orientation to problem-solving and analysis
• Strong verbal communication skills
• Responsiveness and speed with an eye for detail & accuracy
• Ability to work well in teams, with retailers, and their vendor partners.
• Ability to balance and prioritize multiple competing tasks.
• Creative thinking
• Curious about the \"why\" behind questions, comfortable probing to fully understand client ask and ensure delivery with thought leadership.
• Experience with Supply Chain/Loyalty/POS data and Circana Unify+ experience is a plus.

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As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion