Senior Category Analytics Partner

Whole Foods Market, Inc.
paid time off, retirement plan
United States, Texas, Austin
550 Bowie Street (Show on map)
May 28, 2025
As a Senior Category Analytics Partner, you will be responsible for delivering data-driven and actionable recommendations through our category-level insights process to drive business decisions. The ideal candidate has the ability to "tell a story" with their analysis, built across a variety of data-sources (transactional, market, competitor, and customer) to help stakeholders achieve their business objectives. With a strong analytical skillset, relevant experience (category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, etc), and knowledge of the Whole Foods Market product mix you will thrive in this role that is the ideal combination of art and science. The Team: This role will join our Category, Assortment, and Space Analytics team; specifically, the Category pillar. We're a team that directly supports the merchandising organization and categories to offer our customers the best possible assortment in our stores through data-driven insights and decision-making. This role is based in Austin, TX, with an expectation of being in the Store Support office five days a week. Responsibilities: Utilizes advanced analytical methods to identify patterns, relationships, and trends across multiple data sources. Synthesizes information to construct a data-driven narrative with business-driving recommendations that can be understood and actioned-upon by a broad audience. Explains complex data and analytical approaches in simple terms that connect results with merchandising, customer, competitive, and marketing problems. Supports category-level insights, ad-hocs, and reports as needed. Collaborates with cross-functional partners across the analytics organization (assortment analytics, pricing, promotion, etc) and acts as project manager totranslate stakeholder business questions into analyses that inform business decisionsand align with business objectives. Skills: Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis. Strong ability to translate data into actionable analytical insights which drive business decisions. Understands customer, market, and industry trends and emerging challenges. Demonstrates strong knowledge of the WFM product mix, supply base, and retail operations. Communicates structured information in a clear, concise, and organized fashion. Tailors communication approach to specific situations and audiences. Able to effectively lead meetings, present information, and respond to questions in both one-on-one situations and group meetings. Advanced ability to plan, estimate, organize, and lead multiple projects. Collaborates with stakeholders and cross-functional Team Members at various levels of the organization to achieve business objectives by required deadlines. Builds trust and nurtures relationships with senior-level stakeholders and leaders. Impacts overall team effectiveness. May provide informal support to less experiences Team Members. Education & Experience: Bachelor's degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., analytics, statistics, applied mathematics, or computer science). Graduate degree, a plus. 3-5 years of relevant experience (e.g. analytics, category and assortment management, retail operations, business analysis, or related fields). Experience using multiple large enterprise databases to query and prepare data for analysis (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Tableau, competitive databases like Nielsen); experience with AWS QuickSight is a plus. The wage range for this position is $89,407.00-$151,992.00 Annual, commensurate with experience. Whole Foods Market offers "Whole Benefits". Whole Benefits may include health insurance, retirement plan benefits, eligibility for a store discount, paid time off and access to other benefit programs. Eligibility for Whole Benefits is determined under the terms of the applicable Whole Benefits plan at a person's date of hire. For additional information, visit our Whole Foods Market Careers site: https://careers.wholefoodsmarket.com/benefits. At Whole Foods Market, we provide a fair and equal employment opportunity for all Team Members and candidates regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, marital status, disability, or any other legally protected characteristic. Whole Foods Market hires and promotes individuals solely based on qualifications for the position to be filled and business needs. Whole Foods Market works with job sites like Indeed, LinkedIn, and ZipRecruiter to promote opportunities at our company. Please be aware that other career sites may not be accurate or up to date and may even be fraudulent. We encourage and recommend all candidates to apply via our site.