Associate Data Analyst

The Analyst leverages business technology to strengthen long-term relationship and optimize investments with CDW’s partners.

The role drives the utilization, timeliness, and integrity of partner and product reporting with a focus on performance metrics, product portfolio and profitability. The Associate Analyst acts as a point of contact for projects related to automated and centralized reporting on a variety of platforms (BI, SQL, and Excel).

Key Areas of Responsibility

• Support adaptation of new technology to the existing reporting needs within PPM organization. 

Other Responsibilities

• Define and manage centralized partner and product reporting to support various PPM functions including product management, purchasing, bid desk, promotions and relations. 
• Assist in assessing business reporting needs and work on implementing new reports. 
• Generate standard supply chain reporting (e.g. supplier KPI’s, worker productivity, EDI diagnostics, working capital metrics etc.). Support sourcing decision process. 
• Generate standard product/partner reporting (e.g. product mix, market share, penetration metrics, cross selling etc.). Collaborate with the team on assessing effectiveness of various promotions, educational campaigns and incentive programs. 
• Manage existing reporting tools and product/partner data (hierarchies and designations) that support an effective measurement of PPM’s operational and financial performance. 
• Administer quality controls to the existing data warehouses and reconcile to the data sources. 
• Maintain the supporting documentation to increase visibility and buy-in for PPM Analytics initiatives. 
• Follow best practices, gain industry experience, and explore new opportunities to apply existing reporting and analytical tools by facilitating conversations with partners and other key contacts. 

Education and/or Experience Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree or 4 years of analytical or process improvement experience. 

Required Qualifications

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts and processes across business functions.
• Organized and detail oriented.
• History of balancing multiple priorities simultaneously with the ability to quickly adapt to the changing needs of the business and meet deadlines.
• Problem solving, critical evaluation of data.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office.
• Ability to apply new ideas to resolve existing problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Analytical experience.

• BI tools/database experience

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