Luminate Analyst Walmart

Overview of the Company

United Wheels Inc. (“UWI”) is an international, privately held business, with affiliated companies and operations in Asia, the Americas and around the world. UWI is a world leader in the design, manufacture and international distribution of bicycles, e-bikes, and rideable toys, manufacturing more than 6 million bicycles and e-Bikes each year. In additional to cycling, UWI is at the forefront of materials science though Allite Inc. and its affiliated companies, which utilizes its proprietary magnesium alloys across numerous industries (e.g., sporting goods, robotics, electronics, aerospace, etc.).

UWI owns and operates several bicycle-related subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include:

Huffy Corp. ( the iconic bicycling company based in Dayton, Ohio with more than 125+ years of bicycling history.

Buzz Bicycles (https//.buzzbicycles.com)

Batch Outdoors Inc. (

Niner Brands International Inc. (

VAAST Bicycles, (a division of Allite Inc.) (

Summary

The Luminate Analyst is an active participant in the sales and logistic processes required to service the Walmart and Sam’s Club accounts. Responsible for the Walmart sales and insights reporting to identify trends and opportunities for the sales and replenishment team, the ideal candidate will possess data management skills in addition to analysis and reporting skills and experience.

Responsibilities and Essential Functions

Act as the Walmart Luminate expert for UWI. Attend monthly Luminate User Group meetings in Bentonville to learn best practices and share with the Bentonville team.

Contribute to the building of a Luminate database and be responsible for regular maintenance of that database.

Provide daily, weekly, and monthly reports including sales and share reports and adhoc reports as needed to support sales and replenishment planning and activities for the Walmart Stores, dotcom, DSV, and total omni-channel businesses.

Provide regular category recaps for UWI Leadership with insights to sales trends and market share changes based on Luminate data.

Provide inventory reports and data pulls to Replenishment Analysts for weekly DC Pushes and manual order recommendations to Walmart.

Support Walmart business managers and UWI for product line reviews, assortment decisions and promotional plan recommendations with thorough analysis and understanding of Luminate data to identify, quantify, and communicate opportunities.

Collaborate with sales, product development, marketing and others on consumer insights and shopper behavior research projects as requested.

Participate in monthly OTIF/SQEP meetings to note possible action to improve OTIF/SQEP related performance.

Education and/or Experience

This position requires a bachelor’s degree or Business Analyst Certification. Database management/data science experience a plus. Advanced Retail Link and Luminate skills, advanced Microsoft Excel skills, Access Database utilization a plus. Major systems experience with Luminate and Power BI. Good planning/organizing skills. Ability to react to changing priorities and requirements. Team player with ability to work independently with little supervision.

Competencies

Customer Focus - Aims to satisfy all customers while maintaining effective relationships, both internal and external. Maximizes those relationships to improve personal, department, and organizational performance. Holds co-workers and customers to a similar standard.

Energy - Have a tremendous amount of energy and passion for our people, products, and brands. Approaches each date willing to take on the day’s challenges. Operating at their individual peak performance without encouragement.

Energize - Energize teams with enthusiasm and excitement without intimidating them. Projects a positive mental attitude and can-do spirit, who lifts up members of his / her team. Does not get discouraged by setbacks.

Edge - Have a competitive edge and an overwhelming desire to win. Hates losing and will give 100% commitment to achieving or exceeding their plan. Willing to make difficult decisions, when called upon.

Execution - Action and performance oriented and are focused on attaining results. A team player who is reliable and follows through on tasks to completion. Attention to details.

Increases Company Value - Strives to increase sales, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and maximize profits to increase the value of the Company.

Innovative / Continuous Improvement - Committed to improving processes, products, services, and a willingness to embrace change for the benefit of our team, department, organization, and shareholders.

Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Elevating challenges in order to collaborate with co-workers, SLT, ELT, and the Board.

Language Skills

Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to write simple correspondence. Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other employees of the organization.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry.

Reasoning Ability

Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed but uninvolved written or oral instructions. Ability to deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in standardized situations.

Computer Skills

Microsoft Office experience with Strong PowerPoint, Word and Excel experience. Microsoft Outlook.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations

None Required.

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand and walk.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually quiet.