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At Instacart, we invite the world to share love through food because we believe everyone should have access to the food they love and more time to enjoy it together. Where others see a simple need for grocery delivery, we see exciting complexity and endless opportunity to serve the varied needs of our community. We work to deliver an essential service that customers rely on to get their groceries and household goods, while also offering safe and flexible earnings opportunities to Instacart Personal Shoppers.
Instacart has become a lifeline for millions of people, and we're building the team to help push our shopping cart forward. If you're ready to do the best work of your life, come join our table.
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OVERVIEW
About the Role
The Instacart Analytics team seeks a Sr. Data Analyst for the Next Gen team. The Sr. Data Analyst is a centralized resource supporting Fulfillment, Inventory, and Strategic teams. Working collaboratively and cross-functionally, they drive the success of our supply chain ecosystem by owning the ideation, creation, and long-term success of our tooling and modeling. They are experts in tactical work like KPI definitions and dashboarding and capable data storytellers passionate about shepherding insights into real-world impact. For example, they might proactively identify areas where we can improve picking speed or order delivery quality with sound statistical modeling and help us define warehouse team performance management criteria and concepts.
About the Team
The Next Gen team's vision is to reshape and diversify Instacart's fulfillment network by leading disruptive innovation from seed to scale. Our work focuses on strengthening our core grocery business, unlocking growth opportunities via new business, and deepening partner relationships.
ABOUT THE JOB
Some key responsibilities of a Sr. Data Analyst include:
- Contribute to the overall success of our Next Gen team by delivering compelling insights, performing detailed ad hoc analyses, building business cases, and analyzing sales, operational, and consumer data to continually maximize sales, drive market growth, and enhance the shopping experience for our customers.
- Own the analytical ecosystem for our partners' fulfillment centers and assortment. Build dashboards, analyze performance, and provide insights that capture category, site, network, and total enterprise-level performance.
- Partner with the Assortment Planning team to develop assortment selection requirements, logic, and tooling that enables the selection of best-fit products and automates processes.
- Motivate changes in Instacart's Products by ideating and concisely communicating step-change improvement opportunities to our Product Management, Data Engineering, and Data Engineering teams
- Be a source of truth to our team: Independently own, build, and maintain SQL-based data sources
- Up to 5% travel as you work hands-on with our retail and fulfillment partners
ABOUT YOU
Minimum Qualifications
- 3 or more years of experience in Supply Chain, merchandising, analytics, operational excellence, or another quantitative and relevant field
- Advanced SQL and Python are required. Advanced Excel is a major plus
- Experience translating data into insight: You can take a database of thousands of records into actionable insights.
- Strong communication skills: while you're fluent in Excel and SQL, you can still speak the language of operations and continuous improvement to internal and external stakeholders
- Experience in process improvement: You are familiar with lean concepts, such as DMAIC, PDCA, etc., and are energized by continually finding ways to improve our processes.
- Fluent in all forms of data: You understand how different KPIs interact and can predict the cascading effects one process change may have on a set of metrics.
- Positive and energetic attitude: Even the most demanding stakeholders can't get you down; you can keep a smile and a hard-working attitude through even the most demanding moments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced experience with Excel preferred
- Proficiency with inventory management software is preferred but not required
This role pays $70.60 - $78.30 /hour, dependent on experience, with a schedule of 40 hours/week.
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