Business Data Analyst

People Passion Purpose
Everything School Specialty offers is designed for one purpose – to help students succeed. We believe every student can flourish in an environment where they feel safe and inspired to explore and grow.
We’re determined to positively impact the future, one child at a time. We need to talk if you share our passion:
Transforming more than classrooms.®
Benefits
School Specialty offers Medical, Dental, & Vision plans (Effective Day 1), Wellness programs, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, 401 (k), Unlimited PTO for Salaried Exempt employees, which can also be used for dedicated volunteer hours, Education Reimbursement, Paid Holidays, Fall & Winter Flexible Hours, Employee Discounts and much more!
Business Data Analyst
The Business Data Analyst is a critical member of School Specialty’s enterprise Analytics team. Business Data Analysts work closely with the other members of the Analytics team, and work cross-functionally with database and infrastructure professionals, program managers, Data Analysts, and, especially, end business users to research, develop, test, and deploy BI and Analytic solutions. The ideal candidate will be eager to learn, hungry for professional development, and feel most at home working in a less structured environment that demands creativity, adaptability, and self-motivation. To succeed in this role, excellent communication, with technical and non-technical colleagues, is a must.
The base salary range for this role is $65K-85K Annually
Summary of Primary Responsibilities

• Assist in designing, writing, and testing analyses and reports in an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment using SQL
• Perform detailed requirements analysis and translate business needs into Analytics / technical requirements
• Design, write, and test analyses, reports, and dashboards in an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) environment using SQL, Snowflake, and Tableau
• Assist in building extract, transform, and load (ETL) processes
• Develop business, statistical, and learning models to create predictive and prescriptive data elements within the enterprise data flow
• Build end-user reporting and dashboards using visualization tools such as Tableau
• Gather critical information from meetings with various stakeholders and produce useful reports
• Prioritize initiatives based on business needs and requirements
• Contribute every stage of analytic projects (following industry standard methods, such as the Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) model)
• Evaluate business processes, anticipate requirements, uncover areas for improvement, and develop and implement solutions
• Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimization strategies

Minimum Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business intelligence, data analytics, statistics, informatics, or similar field, with relevant experience in business intelligence and analytics preferred, or
• Associate degree in related field, with a minimum of three years of relevant, progressive experience, or
• Five years of relevant, progressive experience
• Expert in SQL, reporting, and data visualization- specifically Tableau
• Experience interacting with all levels of management, including senior leadership
• Exceptional analytical and critical reasoning thinking skills
• Ability to influence stakeholders and work closely with them to determine acceptable solutions
• Excellent documentation skills

Preferred Knowledge and Skills

• Basic familiarity with the principles of ETL processes, relational databases, data warehousing, and dimensional modeling
• Experience with, or education in, Python, R, SAS, or other language (or application) typically used for statistical learning, modeling, and/or data munging
• Basic familiarity with current-generation data visualization tools and information design principles
• Experience with Oracle EDW and Snowflake, or equivalent, environments
• Experience or familiarity with semi-structured data (beneficial)
• Ability to collaborate, high emotional intelligence, and a passion for serving our internal customers
• Familiarity with, and understanding of, business principles and functions

Disclaimers
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. All personnel may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed.

• School Specialty, LLC. is a Drug Free Workplace. All applicants are subject to a drug screen and background check as a condition of employment.
• We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.
• If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact us by email at Opportunities@SchoolSpecialty.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.

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