Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. CSG Talent is recruiting for a growing food manufacturing company seeking a Sales Data Analyst to support its North American retail sales organization. The role transforms sales, customer, retailer, and syndicated data into actionable insights, builds business intelligence dashboards, analyzes promotions and trade investment, and supports National Account, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Strategy teams.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain Power BI / Tableau dashboards supporting Sales, Marketing, and Commercial teams
- Develop reporting tools tracking key retail metrics including: + Sales performance + POS velocity + Distribution and ACV + Promotional performance + Category growth + Customer trends
- Automate recurring reporting and improve visibility into business performance
- Use SQL to extract, clean, and analyze customer sales data from multiple sources
- Analyze data from retailer platforms including: + Walmart Retail Link + Target Partners Online + Costco reporting platforms + Kroger reporting platforms
- Work with syndicated data sources including: + Circana / IRI + NielsenIQ + SPINS + 84.51°
- Perform: + Period-over-period analysis + Plan vs. actual reporting + Promotional lift analysis + Category and market performance analysis
- Identify trends, opportunities, and risks to support National Account strategies
- Analyze promotional effectiveness, trade investment, and ROI
- Evaluate incremental sales lift from promotions, displays, and features
- Support trade spend tracking and post-event analysis
- Provide insights to improve customer investment decisions
- Support Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Strategy teams with analytical insights
- Leadanalytics projects including: + New item launch tracking + Assortment optimization + Customer reviews + Joint Business Planning (JBP)
- Develop processes and tools that improve self-service reporting capabilities
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Analytics, Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, or related field
- 2-4 years of experience in CPG sales analytics, retail analytics, revenue growth management, category management, or similar commercial analytics roles
- Experience supporting retail customers such as Walmart, Target, Costco, Kroger, Albertsons, or similar retailers strongly preferred
- Hands-on experience analyzing retail sales, POS, syndicated, and customer performance data
- Strong experience building dashboards using Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools
- Intermediate SQL skills with experience querying and analyzing large datasets
- Advanced Excel skills including Pivot tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, INDEX/MATCH, Data modelling
- Experience working with retailer portals and syndicated data sources
- Ability to translate complex analysis into clear commercial recommendations
- Experience with Circana / IRI
- Experience with NielsenIQ
- Experience with SPINS
- Experience with Walmart Retail Link
- Experience with Kroger 84.51°
- Trade Promotion Management (TPM) or Revenue Growth Management experience
- Experience with automation or ETL tools such as Alteryx, Power Automate, Python, Zapier
- Experience managing analytics projects with multiple stakeholders
- Strong data storytelling and presentation skills
Benefits
- Remote work arrangement
- Direct impact on how retail sales decisions are made
- Exposure to some of the largest retailers in North America
- Opportunity to use data to influence sales growth, customer strategy, and commercial performance
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