Data Analyst

What are we looking for in our Data Analyst?

Russell Tobin's client, an athletic footwear and apparel corporation company is hiring a Data Analyst to work in Beaverton, OR

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Employment Type: Contract/Onsite

Location: Beaverton, OR

Pay rate: $45-$49/hr. DOE

Responsibilities:

We are searching for a Global Labor Planning Analyst who will drive operational excellence by providing critical expertise in Labor Planning, Budgeting & Reporting/Analytics! You will create a gather, analyze and visualize data necessary for our stores across the globe to improve their business and serve the consumer. You’ll work collaboratively with key partners to determine reporting and visualization methodologies as well as automating data capture from various sources.

You’ll partner with the technology, finance, operations and analytics teams to execute against our strategic roadmap and ensure the success of programs, tools, services and spaces in our retail stores.

This role requires a strong combination of financial, analytical, leadership and communication skills. The person we seek will be a self-starter with the tenacity to move ideas into action, and ability to work closely with cross functional teams to ensure transparency and connectivity. The right candidate will deliver comprehensive, data-driven storytelling incorporating strong analytical thinking and a passion for retail. Success will be measured on the ability to create a vision for our labor reporting foundations and then implement against that strategy by gathering, formatting, automating and visualizing labor data for users across our organizational hierarchy.

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will work developing specific strategies around Global Labor Planning with responsibilities which include to:

• Build cross-functional partnerships to drive labor planning and reporting while identifying labor and operational opportunities
• Assess current labor, data and reporting landscape to determine a data visualization and reporting roadmap
• Intuitively visualize data to drive results in relation to labor budgets, labor as a rate of sales, sales per labor hour and other key performance indicators
• Ability to recommend and implement data automation for a Global Labor Budgeting tool that will help us align workload in stores to financial targets
• Unique Expertise – Will require experience in reporting and analytics, with a preference to WFM and/or Labor Budgeting Tools experience, Excel, SQL and Tableau experience required
• Project(s) will include delivering:
  Budgeting Guidance for quarterly budget reviews
  Global Labor Reporting guidance and templates
  Data scrubbing, analysis, labor file importing/exporting for geo teams
  Data extractions using SQL & Excel
  Data visualization using Tableau

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will partner closely with global/geo finance and labor teams to provide global reporting and analytical support to monitor payroll performance and call out opportunities for improvement. You’ll support global budgeting and forecasting processes while regularly communicating to key partners.

Required Skills:

• Advanced experience with Excel, SQL & data visualization (preferably Tableau)
• Superior writing, communication, and presentation skills
• Ability to work with high degree of independence while managing upward communication to management

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or higher; or combination of relevant education, experience and training
• High level understanding of end to end data architecture and best practice
• 5 years analytics/reporting experience
• Experience working with workforce management (WFM) systems and/or labor budgeting tools
• Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Experience building technical, process and/or program materials

Nice to have:

• Retail management experience
• Understanding of retail store systems and equipment recommended
• Previous experience working on a global team/across multiple geographies valued
• Multilingual
• Ability to travel 5% and work occasional early mornings, evenings and weekends

Benefits that Russell Tobin offers:

Russell Tobin offers eligible employee’s comprehensive healthcare coverage (medical, dental, and vision plans), supplemental coverage (accident insurance, critical illness insurance and hospital indemnity), a 401(k)-retirement savings, life & disability insurance, an employee assistance program, identity theft protection, legal support, auto and home insurance, pet insurance, and employee discounts with some preferred vendors. 

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Rate/Salary: $45-$49/hr. DOE