Manager Strategic Analytics

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We are Aaron’s - an industry leader in the sales and lease-to-own retail industry known for quality brand names and superior customer service. We provide our team members the opportunity to reach their full potential in a team-oriented, high-energy, recognition-based environment with competitive pay and benefits. This is much more than a job – it is a career with purpose.

Summary:

The Manager, Strategic Analytics, is responsible for providing both day-to-day insights and big-picture analysis to help optimize performance across Aaron's business units. The role requires the ability to leverage financial and operations knowledge to inform senior leadership and help formulate recommendations related to the company's corporate strategy and execution.

Duties and Responsibilities:

· Develop a detailed, strategic analytical framework, inclusive of predictive analytics, to guide selected company initiatives.

· Conduct in-depth analyses of performance across a variety of company projects and present recommendations to team members, product owners, and senior management.

· Engage with business leaders and team members to understand the needs of the business, turn them into data requirements, and structure data-based solutions.

· Help define and recommend measurement, strategies, and reporting that will be used to inform key business decisions and drive a best-in-class customer experience while delivering profitable results.

· Perform ad-hoc analysis and provide recommendations for process improvements to management resulting in increased revenue and/or reduction of expenses.

Required Education and Experience:

· Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a quantitative discipline such as math or statistics

· 5 years of analytics experience in corporate contexts

Required Skills and Competencies:

· Ability to lead complex quantitative and qualitative research efforts and business intelligence solutions.

· Pro-actively participate in and identify opportunities for efficiency, automation, standardization, and process simplification.

· Experience in a wide range of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods and their appropriate application to business issues.

· Understanding of how to blend data from multiple sources to help answer key business questions.

· Expert-level understanding of Microsoft Office suite, especially Excel and PowerPoint, and how to ‘tell a story’ that conveys business insights by leveraging data.

· Proficient SQL programming skills to extract, transform, and prepare data for analysis.

· Data visualization skills and experience in applications such as Power BI or Tableau.

· Preferred skills: Proficiency in Python or R for data analytics or experience with low/no code data workflow applications.

· Competency: Time management – Demonstrates efficiency and persistence, managing own time and ensuring engagement deadlines and objectives are met

· Competency: Communication – Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive and accurately interpret ideas, information and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors. This includes the ability to describe or explain complex processes and issues in a concise manner

· Competency: Persuasion and collaboration – Nurtures and builds effective partnerships with clients to achieve results; team player, comfortable working on multiple teams/projects simultaneously and independently, as needed

· Competency: Critical thinking – Understanding of the issues related to the decision-making process; ability to analyze situations fully and accurately, and reach productive decisions

Aaron’s Total Rewards

Our team members are our greatest asset. As an expression of our appreciation, Aaron’s is proud to offer outstanding career training, competitive performance incentives, excellent advancement opportunities, and a distinctive benefits package which includes:


Sundays off
Employee assistance program
Employee purchase program with exclusive discounts
Physical and financial well-being programs
Tuition reimbursement
Employee Business Resource Groups
401(k) plan with contribution matching
Paid time off, including vacation days, sick days, and holidays
Life and disability insurance
Medical, dental and vision insurance
Paid paternal leave
Stock purchase plans
Pay on Demand


**Benefits vary based on full- and part-time employment status.

About Aaron’s

At Aaron’s we offer sales and lease-to-ownership of specialty items including furniture, consumer electronics, home appliances, and accessories throughout the United States and Canada. Our customers shop at Aaron’s for the same reason you should choose us for the next step in your career – our ability to positively influence people’s lives. If you are looking for a company with the passion and dedication to make a difference in the lives of customers and team members alike, join us today.

Aaron’s is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, celebrates our team members’ differences, and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, pregnancy, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, military duty, gender expression, genetic information, or any other protected class. Candidates who require accommodation during the recruitment process should contact ****.

Aaron’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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