Advantage Solutions
Director, Advanced Analytics
Advantage Solutions, Salisbury, North Carolina, United States, 28147
Director, Advanced Analytics
Job Locations: US-NC-Salisbury | US-MA-Quincy | US-ME-Scarborough
Requisition ID: 2025-437690
Position Type: Full Time
Category: Category Management, Insights and Planning
Minimum Salary: USD $134,000.00 /Yr.
Maximum Salary: USD $174,200.00 /Yr.
Summary The Director, Advanced Analytics defines and executes advanced analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value. The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.
Responsibilities
Defines and executes analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value
Build scalable analytics capabilities leveraging core infrastructure and data lake environment
Influence senior leadership with data-driven insights
Lead business value driving innovation in analytics techniques and methodologies
Represent analytics in enterprise-wide initiatives
Partner cross-functionally to identify, build business cases for, and collaborate on POCs and implementations for innovative tools, capabilities, and systems
Qualifications
Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (MBA/MS a plus)
Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field
Travel requirement: No travel requirements
Supervisor Responsibility Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources
Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports
Required Knowledge and Skills
Strategic thinking and enterprise-level analytics leadership
Expertise in data governance, architecture, and analytics platforms
Strong understanding of business operations and ability to align analytics with strategic goals
Proven ability to lead innovation and manage change
Experience developing and scaling analytics capabilities across departments
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Expertise with Python, SQL, data visualization tools, and performing analyses in data lakes
Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques
Experience with Agentic AI techniques
Environmental & Physical Requirements Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.
Additional Information Regarding Job Duties Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by law.
Job Status Job Will Remain Open Until Filled
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Job Locations: US-NC-Salisbury | US-MA-Quincy | US-ME-Scarborough
Requisition ID: 2025-437690
Position Type: Full Time
Category: Category Management, Insights and Planning
Minimum Salary: USD $134,000.00 /Yr.
Maximum Salary: USD $174,200.00 /Yr.
Summary The Director, Advanced Analytics defines and executes advanced analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value. The Company is one of North America’s leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.
Responsibilities
Defines and executes analytics strategy across departments or functions. This role builds scalable analytics capabilities, drives innovation, and ensures analytics delivers measurable business value
Build scalable analytics capabilities leveraging core infrastructure and data lake environment
Influence senior leadership with data-driven insights
Lead business value driving innovation in analytics techniques and methodologies
Represent analytics in enterprise-wide initiatives
Partner cross-functionally to identify, build business cases for, and collaborate on POCs and implementations for innovative tools, capabilities, and systems
Qualifications
Education Requirements: Bachelor’s degree (MBA/MS a plus)
Experience Requirements: 8-10 years experience in relevant field
Travel requirement: No travel requirements
Supervisor Responsibility Direct Reports: Hires, retains, trains, coaches, guides, directs, and develops direct reports using company-wide processes, tools and resources
Indirect Reports: May delegate work of others and provide guidance, direction and mentoring to indirect reports
Required Knowledge and Skills
Strategic thinking and enterprise-level analytics leadership
Expertise in data governance, architecture, and analytics platforms
Strong understanding of business operations and ability to align analytics with strategic goals
Proven ability to lead innovation and manage change
Experience developing and scaling analytics capabilities across departments
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
Expertise with Python, SQL, data visualization tools, and performing analyses in data lakes
Experience with statistical modeling and machine learning techniques
Experience with Agentic AI techniques
Environmental & Physical Requirements Office / Sedentary Requirements: Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.
Additional Information Regarding Job Duties Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one’s supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law.
Equal Opportunity Employment Statement The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by law.
Job Status Job Will Remain Open Until Filled
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