Job Overview:

The Strategic Business Intelligence Manager is responsible for developing insights that add valuable insight to the SBI team, UNFI’s key stakeholders, and the team’s recurring/ad-hoc deliverables when determining strategic direction and those decisions can be influenced by external environmental scans. This position will be relied on to regularly monitor the macro-economic landscape, key grocery and retailer trends, understand and analyze customer and category sales data/insights, pro-actively research and comprehend industry-wide strategic priorities utilizing both primary and secondary methodologies, and have the ability to craft seemingly disparate pieces of data into actionable insights.

Job Responsibilities:

Business Intelligence

• Construct weekly intelligence brief that can include summarizing business, financial, or economic data review for key internal and external stakeholders.
• Responsible for the creation of earnings briefs that is shared and reviewed with key internal and external stakeholders.
• Leads writing of select First Take earnings briefs on key retailers, suppliers, wholesalers, and other companies and may include business recommendations for action.
• Ensure consistent and effective brand messaging through all areas of communications, presentations, and updates by conducting primary and secondary research.
• Analyzes a so-what market strategy analysis while maintaining consistent quality.
• Support senior leaders with quarterly recaps that will feed into both the weekly brief and broader presentations such as upper senior leaders.
• Develop reporting strategy, advancing the use of data and visualization and identify value-added enhancements or programs to distill, synthesize and share intelligence.

• Collects business intelligence data from available industry reports, public information, or purchased sources and is responsible for the integrity of this reporting.

Creates Insights Reporting

• Creates and documents disparate pieces of data together to uncover insights and then create concise and compelling stories to bring those insights to life – all linked to priorities to drive the business.
• Leads the development of dashboards and infographics so that the insights and implications are easy to interpret and act on and maintains database, dashboards or methods.

Performs other relevant job duties as required.

Job Requirements:

Education/ Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Market Research, Data Analytics, Marketing, Business Analytics or other job-related field.

Experience:

• 3-5 years equivalent business experience in consulting, consumer insights, competitive intelligence, marketing research preferred
• Experience with traditional market and consumer research sources (Nielsen, NPD, GNPD, Ipsos, Euromonitor, Mintel, etc.)
• Experience in developing models of information and processes for communicating data
• Thorough knowledge of industry trends, opportunities, products, and competitors.

Knowledge/Skills/ Abilities:

• Strong analytical/ data interpretation skills and ability to translate data and analysis into actionable recommendations
• Strong writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Strong understanding of the macro-economic environment with ability to model and forecast as needed
• Ability to gather information and understand where relevant sources exist
• Ability to effectively present information internally to the SBI team, and management/public groups as needed
• Proficiency in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and PowerPoint; highly proficient in Excel and or some other data visualization software
• Ability to accept and incorporate feedback into all deliverables/projects.

• Good judgment is required for this position as there may be times when direct supervision may not be immediately available.

Work Environment:

Remote Role:

• This position is classified as remote where the associate will perform remote work from their primary residence. Remote associates are welcome to work from the office but are not required to do so. While remote associates are not required to work from an office on a regular basis, they may be required to come to the office or other UNFI locations for necessary business reasons or if directed to do so by their manager.

Travel (minor):

• This position may require the associate to travel to company offices, distribution centers, or other locations for specific meetings or other business reasons.

Physical Environment/Demands: 

Office Roles:

• Most work is performed in a temperature-controlled office environment.
• Incumbent may sit for long periods of time at a desk or computer terminal.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• Incumbent may use calculators, keyboards, telephones, and other office equipment in the course of a normal workday.
• Stooping, bending, twisting, and reaching may be required in the completion of job duties.

About UNFI: We are North America’s premier grocery wholesaler, delivering the widest variety of fresh, branded, and owned brand products to community grocers and retail chains alike. A pioneer in natural and organic foods, we are growing and transforming to meet the needs of an evolving workplace. Our 29,000+ employees work across America in our 50 Distribution Centers and corporate offices. Learn more: Organic, Natural and Conventional Food | Wholesale Food Distributors | UNFI

Benefits: Competitive 401k, Flexible PTO plan, Remote, Health benefits – first of the month following 30 days of employment, mentorship program/developmental opportunities.