Senior Technical Analyst, Wayfair
Demand Forecasting Heuristics
3 days a week in office
A global online homeware marketplace
Job no longer available
A global online homeware marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone, anywhere create their feeling of home.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training, and experience in a quantitative or technical field of study
- Experience in an analytics, business intelligence, data science or engineering role performing quantitative analysis
- Highly collaborative, open minded with a “customer first” attitude; able to deliver net-optimal outcomes across teams and competing priorities
- Exceptional analytics skill set, including a high degree of comfort / expertise with using SQL, Google Cloud Platform, or other relational database technologies on a day-to-day basis with proven track record of insight development leading to action
- Professional experience with statistical programming or scripting languages (Python, R, etc.)
- High attention to detail with ability to appropriately manage and prioritize projects and tasks appropriately that leads to results
- Knowledge of leading trends and best practices in Business Intelligence and Data Visualization
- Proficiency with data visualization tools like Looker, Tableau, or Google Data Studio is a plus
- Extensive experience synthesizing insights using Data Analysis Tools i.e. Excel, Google Sheets, Pandas or Numpy
- Able to understand a highly interconnected technical and strategic landscape
- Solution-oriented and curious intellectual mindset
- Strong written and verbal communication
- High attention to detail and proven ability to manage multiple, competing priorities simultaneously
What the job involves
- Partner with internal teams (analytics, data science, engineering, operations, etc) to develop novel analytical frameworks and statistically analyze raw and curated inventory, pricing, merchandising, forecasting, and other relational datasets
- Develop insights, identify root causes and trends tied to sub-optimal inventory health, forecasting, process or technology improvement opportunities, and implement solutions to mitigate against those causes
- Enable suppliers to understand the “why” behind our demand forecasts and inventory replenishment recommendations and the opportunities to help drive business performance in Castlegate
- Be a strategic leader in defining the key pain points that users have when trying to understand forecasts or inventory positioning and management strategy; Design innovative solutions to deliver powerful insights by bridging the gap between complex data and easy to digest visualizations
- Establish data structures and artifacts that enable scalability in the processes and tools to monitor CastleGate inventory and/or forecast performance across key KPIs (turns, availability, penetration, positioning, DWAPE/MAPE, forecast bias) and allow for adjacent teams to consume that data
- Develop prototype solutions in Google Data Studio including end-to-end development of backend, analytics frameworks or models, and front end dashboards
Otta's take
Sam Franklin
CEO of Otta
Wayfair emerged in the early era of eCommerce with a mission to revolutionize online shopping, offering customers a convenient platform to purchase goods. Today, it stands as one of the foremost global players in the online furniture delivery industry, boasting an impressive inventory of over 33 million products.
Renowned for its extensive product range and comprehensive service offerings, Wayfair distinguishes itself by providing an end-to-end customer experience, from browsing to doorstep delivery. Despite its prominence, the company faces profitability challenges attributed largely to expansion expenses. Nonetheless, its solid presence in the competitive online homeware sector solidifies its position as a key contender.
With ambitious global expansion plans, Wayfair remains committed to maintaining its leadership in the industry. As it aspires to become the ultimate destination for all home needs, its more recent ventures into physical retail represent significant strides toward this overarching goal.
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
-14% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company values
- Relentless Customer Focus: Delivering an exceptional customer experience drives everything we do. We invest in understanding our customers and partners. We are all in customer service
- Deliver Rsults With Agility: We prioritize work that drives long-term value. We execute with urgency, learn from failure, and nimbly pivot. The outcomes of our efforts are impactful, measurable results
- Use Good Judgement: We are bold and confident, never reckless. We make reasoned, calculated decisions based on data, critical thinking, and pattern recognition
- Build the Best Team: We lead by setting the bar high, articulating clear goals, and diving deep. We hire, develop, and leverage only the best. Our leaders continually reevaluate and strengthen their teams and do not shy away from hard decisions. We expect and demonstrate excellence
- Collaborate Effectively: We invest in cross-functional global partnerships that maximize impact and minimize duplication. We prize collaboration in all interactions – with our teammates, stakeholders, and suppliers. We disagree, align, and commit. Effectiveness and efficiency in collaboration are required.
- Respect Others: We earn and show respect, treating our teammates and partners with empathy and inclusion. We presume good intent while prioritizing impact. We balance confidence and candor with humility and kindness.
- Be an Owner: We are Wayfair first. We act on what’s best for the company, ahead of team or individual goals. We spend every dollar as if it is our own. We take pride in Wayfair’s success while planning the next win. We always think long-term
- Innovate & Improve: We are not limited by precedent. We boldly challenge the norm. We continually identify opportunities to innovate, improve, and simplify. We value incremental improvements, but we also look for game-changing breakthroughs.
- Adapt & Grow: We value adaptability and self-reflection. We find opportunity in every change, experience, and mistake. We are committed to continuous self-improvement.
Company HQ
Prudential / St. Botolph, Boston, MA
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Founders
Niraj Shah
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied Engineering at Cornell University before co-founding Spinners, a Boston-based IT services company. Previously acted as Entrepreneur in Residence for Greylock and has served as CEO of Wayfair since co-founding the company in 2002.
Steven Conine
(Co-Founder)Co-founded Spinners before working for Operations at iXL. Conine also co-founded Pillar VC in 2016.
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