Who we are:

At their core, the Analytics Tech team members at Wayfair are strong in quantitative analysis, enjoy coding but also want to balance that with their interest in the key of our business. They think critically to tackle complex challenges, thrive in a fast-paced environment and are seeking a high-growth opportunity where they will have an immediate impact on day one. There are significant opportunities for new passionate team members fresh out of school or with previous professional experience.

The Global Analytics Tech team enables data driven decision making and performance management across Wayfair’s 10,000+ person Operations group. The team’s culture is founded by critical thinking, innovation and results in order  to tackle complex global operational challenges, while thriving in a fast-paced environment.

The Global Analytics Tech team helps unlock the value of Wayfair’s data assets by working closely with engineers and business partners to create data structures, metrics, visualizations, and self-serve data environments.

As a Manager of the Global Analytics Tech team, you  will understand users’ pain points and insights needs in order to design, create, and maintain a portfolio of products to address these, primarily using Data Studio and Looker. They will combine a deep knowledge of the business with strong technical and visualization skills to own and deliver the right solution for the right business problem.  The resulting products will serve as the backbone to a highly data-driven Operations organization with high visibility to senior leadership.  Our Managers move fast, adapt quickly, and leave a lasting mark through the new data products  they deliver!

What You’ll Do

• Break down complex business questions into easy to digest/impactful/actionable visuals to drive decision making and accelerate profitable growth.
• Conceptualize and support the build of easy-to-use data dashboards and tools to support deep dives which identify drivers for business trends while leading and mentoring a team of 1-2 analysts.
• Become the subject matter expert for data, analytics, and testing within the Supply Chain organization to ensure accurate and proper interpretation of core business metrics and consumer behavior
• Perform deep-dive analysis, including the application of advanced analytical techniques, to solve some of the more critical and complex business problems including supplier segmentation and supply chain optimization.
• Collaborate with other Supply Chain and commercial areas (i.e., Supplier Operations, Warehousing, Logistics) to create and evaluate project ideas and drive their implementation, while validating your analytics insight and scale working solutions across the team. Manage and mentor 1-2 analysts

Who you are:

• Have 5+ years of progressive experience in an analytics, business intelligence, data science or engineering role performing quantitative analysis
• 2-4 years of experience with cloud data management and SQL
• Proficient knowledge of PL/SQL (incl. aggregate functions, joins, etc. Experience with Google sql is a plus). 
• Other structured programming languages (Python, R) for data analysis are a plus
• Knowledge of leading trends and best practices in Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
• Proficient with data visualization tools like Looker and Data Studio
• Extensive experience synthesizing insights using Data Analysis Tools i.e.Excel, Google Sheets, Pandas or Numpy
• Team leadership experience 
• Able to understand a highly interconnected technical and strategic landscape
• Solution-oriented & curious intellectual mindset and curiosity
• Strong written and verbal communication with a team player, highly collaborative attitude
• High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously