Analytics Manager - Strategy & Operations

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What We Do

Wayfair believes everyone should live in a home they love. It is our mission to grow Wayfair into a household name, by offering customers an easy & fun shopping and perfect order experience. Through technology and innovation, Wayfair makes it possible for shoppers to quickly and easily find exactly what they want from a selection of more than 22 million items across home furnishings, décor, home improvement, housewares, and more.

The Pricing Strategy and Operations team is responsible for setting and overseeing the retail price, taking into account profitability, customer and supplier experience, and efficiency. We perform analyses and develop algorithms for various pricing components across European catalogues.

We are looking for candidates who have a strong business sense, excel in critical thinking, and like to utilize analytics to solve business problems. We work with large datasets and collaborate with various stakeholder teams to provide the most appropriate pricing strategies.

If you enjoy taking on responsibility in a fast growing business, working closely with cross-functional stakeholders, and joining a diverse team, we invite you to apply for a Analytics Manager position in EU Pricing Strategy and Operations.

 

What You Will Do

As a Manager in Pricing Strategy and Operations, you will take ownership of pricing models or platform and ensure effectiveness across the entire EU business. Your responsibilities include

  • Leading development of models and other cross-functional efforts for estimating cost and margin components
  • Acting as a point person for managing pricing inquiries from other teams, and recognize needs for and develop systematic solutions to solve them
  • Influencing other teams for prioritizing specific pricing strategies or changes based on data insights
  • Leading regular steering meetings with EU and NA stakeholders. Communicating progress along KPIs and by sharing the overall narrative with a broad set of stakeholders
  • Defining, scoping, and executing the full path to achieve objectives; determines appropriate strategy and project plan in the medium term (~<6 months)
  • Architecting novel metrics and analyses to shed light on success drivers; bringing metrics to production to share with a broad set of stakeholders
  • Troubleshooting business development and the ability to do non-standard analyses on terabyte datasets
  • Contributing to the Wayfair culture: role-modeling continuous learning and coaching junior colleagues

 

What You'll Need

  • A Bachelor’s degree from top-tier institution with a distinguished academic record, ideally in a quantitative field (math, economics, statistics, physics, engineering, etc.); MSc, MBA or PhD Preferred
  • 5+ years of work experience in an analytical and/or stakeholder-facing role, preferably with a pricing background
  • Management skills: you fluently translate business objectives into measurable key results and ~6 months project plans. You bring experience in leading cross-functional, multi-months projects and know how to establish project governance as well as progress reporting.
  • Communication skills: you communicate effectively with different levels of seniority, both written and verbally. You lay out thoughts and plans in well structured documents and co-develop them with your manager and stakeholders
  • Results focus: you have demonstrated the ability to deliver strong results and feel comfortable with sharing quick results early to improve over time. You collaborate effectively with other teams to achieve your goals and can influence other teams roadmaps as well as execute yourself.
  • Business acumen: you are familiar with financial statements and have experience with fundamental business metrics such as revenue, cost, profit, basket size, conversion, etc.
  • Strong quantitative skills: you have hands-on experience with manipulation and analysis of large data sets. Advanced Excel knowledge and proficient knowledge of one structured programming language (preferably SQL and GBQ; Python, R) required. Ideally you also bring a distinct analytical skill that you can introduce to the team.

 

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.