Sr Data Analyst

Target Target · Retail · Minneapolis, MN

This role is for a Sr. Data Analyst on the Property Analytics team at Target. The analyst will support strategic initiatives by developing new data and metrics, analyzing in-store data to measure the impact of various changes on store operations and guest experience, and deriving business insights using mathematical techniques. The role involves working with business owners, technology teams, and leveraging tools like Python and SQL. It is a hybrid role based in Minneapolis.

What you'd actually do

  1. exploring data, technologies, and the application of mathematical techniques to derive business insights
  2. determining the best approach to gather, model, manipulate, analyze and present data
  3. support a new initiative requiring new data and metric development
  4. leverage in store analytic data to measure the impact of promotions, product placement, or physical changes at any given store has on store operations, guest experience and purchase decisions
  5. creative thinking and leadership opportunities

Skills

Required

  • BA/BS or equivalent experience
  • 3+ years of work experience in data analysis or masters level education in business analytics, data science, etc.
  • Utilize tools (Python, SQL) to build insights and solutions off varying data storage platforms (GCP, Hadoop, Postgres, Oracle, etc.)
  • Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, Data creation and consolidation
  • Experience developing metrics, reports, visualizations and/or statistics while documenting code and adhering to data management principles
  • Advanced proficiency in at least 1 visualization tool (i.e. Power BI, Domo, Tableau)
  • Knowledge of AB Testing methods, time series, S&OP planning, forecasting models including statistical analysis

Nice to have

  • willingness and ability to learn additional visualizations tools

What the JD emphasized

  • new data and metric development