Sales Analyst

At Kids2, we're really good at what we do. And when we're great at our jobs, we help parents be great at their jobs.

Parenting is demanding, and that's where we come in. We want to reimagine how brands can make it easier for early stage parents - not by just selling them products, but by providing holistic solutions that transcend borders, categories and aisles.

No matter our title or department, at Kids2, our job is to create more tiny wins for parents, so they can create bright futures for their little ones. That's a big task

We're serious about what we do, AND we love to have fun. Our team is hardworking, entrepreneurial, and passionate about helping families create millions, if not billions of tiny wins.

SUMMARY

Support the Account Team to drive sales and long-term initiatives with customer interaction and communication. The sales analyst provides sales reporting and data analytics to the Sales, Operations, Category. and Finance teams to drive key decision making and success measurement of the business relative to sales. The Sales Analyst creates and maintains weekly and monthly reports regarding sales trends including point of sale data and customer inventory metrics. Sales Analysts play a key role in the monthly forecast consensus process by providing key inputs regarding potential impacts to future forecasts.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

- Weekly reporting/tracking using customer POS data: Sales, Inventory, Promotions, New Items, etc.
- Prepare monthly segment trend, competitive analysis and promotional analysis along with insights using POS and syndicated data.
- Provide support for period and promotional forecasting
- Develop and manage account specific business plan/annual sales plan
- Help with business reviews and fact-based account predictions
- Assist with clearing of deductions
- Assist in the identification and analysis of business issues and opportunities
- Interaction, Communication, and Collaboration with the account (Buyer, Inventory Analyst)
- Provide Ad-hoc support and analysis as needed
- Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE
- 1-2 years' experience in sales analysis
- Experience and demonstrated ability to analyze data and make appropriate recommendations
- Analytics: Business and marketplace
- Advanced Excel experience with pivot tables, graphs, and reporting

EDUCATION & SKILLS
- 4-year college degree in business, engineering, or related field
- Plans and manages effectively
- Critical thinking and problem solving
- Focuses on the customer
- Communication: Internal and external
- Excellent communication skills and working with cross functional groups and customer
- Ability to consult with account teams and proactively identify appropriate
- Communicate and work collaboratively internally and customer
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Service oriented
- Learning agility

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, REGISTRATIONS

None required.

COMPUTER/TYPING SKILLS

Must be proficient in PowerPoint, Excel and Word;

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; have flexible use of hands; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and color vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

General office environment.

We offer competitive pay, flexible hours, and generous benefits. Plus, to keep things fun (because we are all kids at heart), we offer a host of team member activities and philanthropic efforts throughout the year and company-wide awards and recognition for a job well done

Drug Free Workplace M/F/D/V