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School Specialty
is hiring
Data Analyst
About Our Company
In a work world filled with jobs, School Specialty offers opportunity. The opportunity to have an exciting and challenging career at a company that’s dedicated to shaping the future by changing education.
Job Description & Responsibilities
The Business Data Analyst is a critical member of School Specialty’s enterprise Analytics team. Business Data Analysts work closely with the other members of the Analytics team, and work cross-functionally with database and infrastructure professionals, program managers, data analysts, and, especially, end business users to research, develop, test, and deploy BI and Analytic solutions. The ideal candidate will be eager to learn, hungry for professional development, and feel most at home working in a less structured environment that demands creativity, adaptability, and self-motivation.
Summary Of Primary Responsibilities
- Assist in designing, writing, and testing analyses and reports in an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment using SQL
- Perform detailed requirements analysis and translate business needs into Analytics / technical requirements
- Assist in building extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes
- Help to develop business, statistical, and learning models to create predictive and prescriptive data elements within the enterprise data flow
- Build end-user reporting and dashboards using visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, and Excel
- Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful reports
- Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements
- Contribute to every stage of analytic projects (following industry standard methods, such as the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) model)
- Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement, and develop and implement solutions
Requirements
Minimum Experience Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in business intelligence, data analytics, statistics, informatics, or similar field, with relevant experience in business intelligence and analytics preferred, or
- Associate degree in related field, with a minimum of three years of relevant, progressive experience, or
- Five years of relevant, progressive experience
- Proficiency in SQL, reporting, and data visualization
- Experience interacting with all levels of management, including senior leadership
- Exceptional analytical and critical reasoning thinking skills
- Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
- Excellent documentation skills
Preferred Knowledge and Skills
- Basic familiarity with the principles of ETL processes, relational databases, data warehousing, and dimensional modeling
- Experience with, or education in, Python, R, SAS, or other language (or application) typically used for statistical learning, modeling, and/or data munging
- Basic familiarity with current-generation data visualization tools and information design principles
- Experience with Oracle EDW and Snowflake, or equivalent, environments (preferred)
- Experience or familiarity with semi-structured data (beneficial)
- Ability to collaborate, high emotional intelligence, and a passion for serving our internal customers
- Familiarity with, and understanding of, business principles and functions
What we offer
School Specialty offers Medical, Dental, & Vision plans (Effective Day 1), Wellness programs, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401 (k), Unlimited PTO for Salaried Exempt employees, which can also be used for dedicated volunteer hours, Education Reimbursement, Paid Holidays, Fall & Winter Flexible Hours, Employee Discounts and much more!
