Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Designer Brands is the parent company of DSW Designer Shoe Warehouse and operates numerous stores across North America. The Senior Analyst, Business Strategy & Analytics will play a key role in leveraging data to drive insights and support decision-making across various teams, focusing on analytics solutions that enhance business performance.
Responsibilities
- Analyze customer trends and behaviors to uncover opportunities for growth and improved performance
- Translate complex data into clear, accessible insights tailored to a range of audiences, including senior leadership
- Deliver timely, accurate reporting to support both immediate needs and long-term strategic planning
- Develop, maintain, and improve reporting tools, dashboards, and analytical systems
- Ensure data integrity and governance across multiple data sources
- Identify opportunities to streamline and improve analytics processes, tools, and methodologies
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and design both ad hoc and scalable solutions
- Act as a liaison between business teams and shared services to ensure alignment and usability of data solutions
- Participate in business meetings and category reviews to stay connected to priorities and evolving opportunities
- Serve as a subject matter resource across Customer, Marketing, and Digital analytics
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior analysts
- Lead cross-functional analytics initiatives and influence decision-making through data-driven recommendations
- Help teams confidently use data tools and insights in their day-to-day work
- Train and support users to drive effective adoption of analytics resources
- Ensure insights are not only delivered, but understood and actionable
Skills
- 5+ years of experience in a corporate retail analyst, planning, or financial role
- 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Office, including MS Access
- Proven track record of independently leading analytics initiatives and delivering measurable business impact
- Experience working with Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) application
- Strong proficiency in SQL (BigQuery experience is a plus)
- Experience with data mining and reporting tools
- Experience using data science programming languages such as R and Python
- Experience working with multiple data sources and validating data accuracy
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including application of retail mathematics and statistics
- Exceptional attention to detail with the ability to connect data insights to broader business strategies
- Strong business acumen and the ability to translate insights into actionable recommendations
- Effective communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to different audiences, including leadership
- Experience working cross-functionally and influencing decision-making
- Comfortable leading projects and collaborating across multiple teams
- Ability to manage multiple priorities with strong organizational skills
- Comfortable in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Open to continuous improvement and feedback
- Experience training others and supporting adoption of tools and processes
- Bachelor's Degree in Analytics or a STEM field (Data Analytics, Data Science, Computer Science, Data Engineering, Applied Mathematics) with 5+ years of experience
- Master's Degree in Analytics or related STEM field
- Retail experience
Benefits
- Free virtual health care
- Robust family/fertility benefits
- 401(k) w/ match
- Hybrid and remote work opportunities
- Training programs
- Professional development
- Education assistance
- 30% off at DSW & DSW.com, plus discounts across our family of brands
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