Senior Analyst – Adv. Analytics – Real Estate
| Company | Meijer |
|---|---|
| Location | Grand Rapids, MI, USA |
| Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
| Type | Full-Time |
| Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s |
| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Geography/GIS, Data Analytics, Planning, Economics, or other quantitative field. Master’s degree preferred.
- 5-10 years business experience in analytics (Real Estate analytics preferred) and location research/strategy (big box retail or grocery industry preferred).
- Expert knowledge of the development and logics of spatial models (analog, gravity, spatial econometrics, location-allocation, etc.)
- Expert knowledge of desktop GIS software.
- Expert knowledge of SQL, Python, or other programming language.
- Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (random forest, gradient boosting, clustering, etc.)
- Strong work ethic.
- Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written.
- Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering impact to the organization’s performance by providing expert analytical support and thought leadership primarily for the Real Estate team and other relevant teams throughout the business.
- Executing against analytics-based business opportunities.
- Developing and applying analytical tools and approaches that improve the efficiency of the organization and inform Meijer’s real estate strategy.
- Contribute subject matter expertise and methodological design for all aspects of Meijer real estate analysis and store location strategy, including: sales forecasting, market densification, competitive/cannibalistic transfer, trade area analysis, void analysis, and other methods.
- Take on leadership approach to the real estate analytics track and champion adoption of geospatial tools and data across Meijer organization.
- Mentor and develop junior real estate analyst(s).
- Leverage web-based and desktop GIS solutions to evaluate new and existing store locations and markets using geodemographics, competitor data, mobile foot traffic, and internal Meijer data.
- Develop reporting infrastructure to prepare, analyze, and disseminate authoritative real estate portfolio data/insights across Meijer organization.
- Effectively communicate business analysis and locational insights to Real Estate customers.
- Keep customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centered focus at Meijer.
- Collaborate with other advanced analysts supporting various areas of the business.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with mobile insights platform (Placer.ai, Unacast, Azira, etc.) preferred.
- Experience with dashboarding software (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) preferred.
- Experience in an Advanced Analytics environment working with retail data in Databricks (preferably at large retailer).
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Databricks (or similar) preferred.