Manager

Category/Area of Expertise: Data-Science & Analytics

Job Requisition: 454879_external_USA-MA-Quincy

Address: USA-MA-Quincy-1385 Hancock Street

Store Code: Distribution Admin (5134684)

ADUSA Distribution is the distribution company of Ahold Delhaize USA, providing distribution services to one of the largest grocery retail supply chains in the nation. ADUSA Distribution fosters a culture that inspires and empowers our associates to always deliver exceptional service and value. Our team is supporting the supply chain network evolution to an integrated self-distribution model of the future, serving leading omnichannel grocery brands – Food Lion, Giant Food, The GIANT Company, Hannaford and Stop & Shop. To learn more about our company and the other supply chain companies of Ahold Delhaize USA, visit

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Director of Operational Excellence, Manager III Reporting and Analysis will lead the reporting function to deliver data analytics solutions for ADUSA Distribution and Transportation and establish best-in class data solutions at scale for the organization. This role will work collaboratively with the supply chain product managers, supply chain engineers, and the operational teams to lead the analyst group in developing reporting, dashboarding, and analytical solutions for complex supply chain problems. Provide recommendations to leaders based on data to guide decision making and drive change.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

• Drive development of the reporting and analysis function and ensure alignment with broader strategic objectives.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to define metrics and create operation performance reporting and dashboarding for supply chain teams.
• Recruit, mentor, and manage the reporting analyst team to create a group that is diverse in thinking, ability and perspective and leverages the strengths of each individual to achieve desired results and expectations.
• Lead reporting analyst group issue-based problem solving, solution delivery and ongoing relationship management to ensure strategic use of business analytics in support of Supply Chain objectives.
• Manage training, support, and troubleshooting for analytics environment
• Work with the strategy group and key cross-functional leadership to support decisions and evaluate potential strategic opportunities, with a focus on providing recommendations to support initiatives and experiments.
• Partner with finance and IT and relevant leaders to develop meaningful assumptions for financial models (including any pro forma investment models) regarding impacts of major strategic initiatives.
• Develop presentations utilized to communicate meaningful results, trends, and insights regarding the performance of key strategic initiatives.
• Guide strategic projects as needed, creating structure around ambiguous strategic questions, analyzing complex business problems and developing data driven insights to support a solution
• Thought partner across the organization to help structure tools to measure, assess, and analyze results and initiative performance.
• Lead and engage in discussions with leadership about innovative approaches to analysis and the implications of different data, while building alignment on the results.
• Partner in cross-functional projects to design, create buy-in, and implement organizational level changes to address major internal and industry challenges. Lead and/or serve as a member of key leadership groups as needed.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Significant experience with analytics, statistics and structured problem solving
• Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Office; Mastery of Excel and PowerPoint; Expertise in Microsoft Azure, PowerBI, and SQL
• Proficiency in data analysis and presentation formation using internal database resources, internal and external business partners, and Microsoft office suite
• Knowledge of approaches to work with big data, including querying databases and manipulating large sets of data to generate robust insights
• Knowledge of data science programming languages such as Python or R
• Functional knowledge of data science and machine learning
• Proven leadership and supervisory skills
• Proven analytical proficiency and ability to leverage data to positively impact the business and solve complex business problems
• Innovative problem-solver with ability to triangulate answers by adopting different problem-solving approaches.
• Demonstrated success executing complex strategic projects
• Flexibility to adapt to rapidly evolving priorities and needs, while maintaining commitment to excellence
• Strong oral and written communication skills and confidence sharing strategic analytics with senior leaders
• Highly collaborative with proven experience partnering, influencing and negotiating
• Ability to lead multiple projects and tasks simultaneously
• Ability to adapt quickly in situations with high degrees of uncertainty or ambiguity
• Ability to challenge conventional thinking to deliver innovative recommendation

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree in business, economics, engineering, math, statistics, or other quantitatively-oriented major or equivalent combination of education and related work experience
• Masters Degree in similar quantitative field preferred
• 6-8 years related experience
• 3+ years retail industry or CPG experience preferred
• Demonstrated success as a Supply Chain Leader
• Cross-functional project and team leadership experience

We are an organization that values diversity and encourages all qualified individuals to apply without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status or any other characteristic protected by law.


Our organization is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities, including applicants. If you have a disability and require assistance in the application process, please email [email protected].