Business Analyst Co-Ops

Job Title

Sales Analyst Co Op

Job Location

Horsham, PA

Job Overview

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 customers 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
• Provides input to the creation of, and measuring the elements of, business cases for new technology initiatives.
• Helps to manage and communicate to field teams performing pilots or beta tests of new capabilities.
• The ideal candidate has experience working with various customer or technical solution output 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

Compensation

DOE (Depends on Experience)

Responsibilities

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 creation and deployment of applications based on patterns, behaviors or correlations determined by the inputs
• Works proactively in determining areas needing additional field training or communication of status to create content shared in weekly customer meetings and to distribute nationwide to local sales teams
• Builds and delivers post-program reporting of business case metrics to support new solutions coming to market
• Responsible to help run pilots and trials of new technology, developing and measuring KPI metrics to gauge success or propose modifications based on metric results. Present internally and to external business partners and vendors as needed
• 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
• Analyze input customer data as well as information for multiple systems 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

Requirements

Position Requirements:

• 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 Bachelors 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

We're excited for you to apply!