McMaster-Carr is an e-commerce company offering more than half a million products used to keep businesses in motion. The company owes its success to experimentation and innovation and invites team members to put their creativity to work. Whether the job is automating distribution operations, researching new products, or improving the company’s app, people flourish when they love to learn and pursue ambitious goals. An emphasis on curiosity and development leads to hiring for capability more than skill and celebrates diverse studies, experiences, backgrounds and identities. McMaster-Carr’s commitment to an inclusive workplace is evident in the way they form teams and develop on-site resources.

McMaster-Carr is in the business of convenience. Product development, publishing, technology, sales, and distribution teams ensure that clients can design, build, operate, and repair almost anything. The company has a customer-friendly e-commerce platform; high-quality products (fastening systems, LED lighting, conveyors, programmable logic controllers, pumps, electrical components, and more); and makes operational excellence and innovation their priority.

We are currently seeking a Data Analyst to help support our company's merchandising efforts by providing reliable data and building new systems. Our team works on a variety of initiatives, such as helping to prioritize merchandising opportunities based on existing product sales or analyzing and reporting on publishing workflows to minimize throughput time and rework.

What You'll Be Doing

• Develop business solutions that align with strategy and represent customer needs understood through data analysis and research
• Create reports and dashboards to monitor customer impact and operational progress
• Write clean and well-documented queries
• Conduct analyses of customer behavioral data to draw trends and identify opportunities
• Evaluate solutions that enable teammates to solve problems not currently supported by existing tools or that influence how our business focuses efforts to maximize customer impact
• Validate the impact of key metrics on long-term business objectives in a statistically rigorous manner

What We Look For

McMaster-Carr encourages you to apply and share your unique experience even if you don’t meet 100% of the qualifications below. We look forward to your application.

• Strong analytical & critical thinking ability
• Demonstrated ability and interest in using data to drive business decisions
• Proficiency in SQL, Python, and Microsoft Office
• Experience writing clean and well-documented code
• 1-2 years of professional experience in related fields such as analytics, data science, or other similar areas
• Experience with 1-2 statistical methods used in data analysis, such as decision trees, clustering, A/B analysis, or regression
• Preferred: Bachelor’s degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Quantitative Methods (Social Science) or related field
• Preferred: HTML, Javascript, Neo4J, NumPy, pandas