Senior Analyst, Adv. Analytics - Real Estate

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay

• Scheduling flexibility

• Paid parental leave 

• Paid education assistance

• Team member discount

• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

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What You'll be Doing: 

• Responsible for delivering impact to the organization’s performance by:  

• providing expert analytical support and thought leadership primarily for the Real Estate team and other relevant teams throughout the business

• executing against analytics-based business opportunities 

• developing and applying analytical tools and approaches that improve the efficiency of the organization and inform Meijer’s real estate strategy. 

• Contribute subject matter expertise and methodological design for all aspects of Meijer real estate analysis and store location strategy, including: sales forecasting, market densification, competitive/cannibalistic transfer, trade area analysis, void analysis, and other methods. 

• Take on leadership approach to the real estate analytics track and champion adoption of geospatial tools and data across Meijer organization. 

• Mentor and develop junior real estate analyst(s) 

• Leverage web-based and desktop GIS solutions to evaluate new and existing store locations and markets using geodemographics, competitor data, mobile foot traffic, and internal Meijer data. 

• Develop reporting infrastructure to prepare, analyze, and disseminate authoritative real estate portfolio data/insights across Meijer organization. 

• Effectively communicate business analysis and locational insights to Real Estate customers. 

• Keep customer at the center of analytic approach, analysis and solutions and partner with cross functional teams to drive customer centered focus at Meijer. 
• Collaborate with other advanced analysts supporting various areas of the business

What You Bring with You (Qualifications): 

• Bachelor’s degree in Geography/GIS, Data Analytics,  Planning, Economics,  or other quantitative field. Master’s degree preferred. 

• 5-10 years business experience in analytics (Real Estate analytics preferred) and location research/strategy (big box retail or grocery industry preferred). 

• Expert knowledge of the development and logics of spatial models (analog, gravity, spatial econometrics, location-allocation, etc.)  

• Expert knowledge of desktop GIS software. 

• Expert knowledge of SQL, Python, or other programming language. 

• Experience with supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (random forest, gradient boosting, clustering, etc.) 

• Experience with mobile insights platform (Placer.ai, Unacast, Azira, etc.) preferred. 

• Experience with dashboarding software (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) preferred. 

• Experience in an Advanced Analytics environment working with retail data in Databricks (preferably at large retailer). 

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and Databricks (or similar) preferred. 

• Strong work ethic. 

• Excellent communication skills: listening, verbal and written. 

• Experience developing communications and presenting to leadership and business partners

• Strong organizational, planning, and time management skills with ability to prioritize multiple/competing projects and assignments.