Sales Analyst Co Op

The Bimbo Bakeries USA Sales Co-Op program is a dynamic 5-months paid opportunity that affords students a remarkable experience to participate in fast-paced, real-world projects designed to further develop strategic project, management, analytical problem solving, and managerial leadership skills. Mentors will be designated to guide student collaborations and project work in each area. Students will be exposed to a variety of functional areas such as sales, distribution, and sales planning while earning college credits in various locations nationwide. The students will gain valuable experience and transferrable skills in the following areas:

• Confident, self-starter, who is also results-driven and demonstrates professionalism
• Serves in this business-critical role of Sales Analyst
• Supplies analytical support to the Sales Technology Team to understand the customer’s performance and provide continuous optimization recommendations at both a brand and customer level
• Creates, formats, and understands reports of information to allow a more sustainable capability for informing associates across the organization of performance opportunities with market execution
• The ideal candidate has experience working with various customer datasets, distilling information, can answer the “so what” of the data, and then can pull it all together with storytelling that answers the “now what”

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Access relevant information, interpret results, draw conclusions, and forms recommendations about opportunities to improve sales plan performance
• Use data manipulation and analytical tools to define, build and deliver usable, graphical reports that help guide market execution of action based on patterns, behaviors or correlations determined by the inputs
• Works proactively in uncovering opportunities while working closely with Senior Customer Executives, Data visualization experts and the DSDE Center of Excellence to create content shared in weekly customer meetings and to distribute nationwide to local sales teams
• Support the development of templates and standardized processes for post-program reporting
• Builds and delivers post-program reporting promotions
• Leads by organizing disparate pieces of information into clear and concise reports
• Responsible for supplying sales data results to Senior Customer Executive who will present data directly to the customer
• Present internally and to external business partners, including the customer
• Measure and build business case inputs from results of the reports and data availability for the sales teams to uncover the potential impacts of more automated, generalized approaches to the reporting
• Create data integration requirements and work with IT development and DSDE product teams to craft standard and custom interface specifications for data coming in from customers or third parties and resulting in standard sales action reports or as inputs to other analytical systems
• Analyze input customer data to determine identification methods for data quality anomalies and indicators guiding data governance and the use of inputs for reporting, action or other system analysis

Position Requirements:

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Initiative-taker that also works well in a collaborative matrix team environment
• Ability to work independently and reach out to others in various roles as needed
• Remote work the majority of time with communication over online collaboration tools
• Ability to work in agile environments and embraces a continuous improvement / test & learn mindset
• Strong planning and organization, detail-oriented, and ability to lead project management
• Thought leader who is willing to offer ideas and solutions, not just take direction
• Some travel and time in customer and company locations may be required. Estimated 10% travel (costs covered by company)

Education and Work History:

• Pursuing Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, Business or a related field preferred
• Technical capabilities in manipulating data, managing the creation and modification of analytical tools, and other manipulation and data visualization tools may be preferred over specific other experience or education
• Knowledge and use of Excel, SQL, PowerBI, PowerApps Qlik or other similar systems is a plus

The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.