Lead Business Strategy Analyst
BigCommerce is disrupting the e-commerce industry as the SaaS leader for fast- growing, mid-market businesses. We enable our customers to build intuitive and engaging stores to support every stage of their growth.
BigCommerce, named "Best Place to Work" in Austin in 2020 is seeking an experienced Business Strategy Analyst with deep, analytical expertise and strong executive and interpersonal skills to develop collaborative growth strategies and drive operational improvements across the business. This role will work closely with executive leadership to quantify growth opportunities and help guide our data-driven decision making.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner closely with Senior Leadership throughout the company to understand key challenges and business opportunities, as well as provide insightful recommendations in a demanding environment
- Use systems thinking to transform business processes that require highly cross-functional collaboration and exceptionally strong business acumen
- Be one of the primary analytical partners for strategic planning initiatives
- Guide the development of data insights in partnership with our Business Intelligence team and provide clear and concise strategic recommendations to the executive leadership team
- Constantly identify and mitigate risks to schedule, scope, and resources while balancing competing priorities across multiple strategic initiatives
- Design and conduct statistical analyses of operational changes; make strategic recommendations based on these analyses that will optimize and improve performance
- Create compelling operational visualizations in Tableau and use SQL to analyze large datasets to answer business questions
- Prioritize your time and effort to maximize impact on meeting key team objectives
Who You Are:
- 8+ years experience in strategy, management consulting, corporate development, or financial data and analytics
- Analytical and results-oriented balanced with interpersonal savvy
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (economics, statistics, mathematics, finance, etc) or Business Administration, or equivalent experience
- An energetic, creative problem solver who couples a quantitative approach with qualitative, collaborative cross-functional insights
- Significant experience in financial/P&L analytics and data, experience with eCommerce or SaaS a plus
- Demonstrated ability to apply statistical models and techniques to business problems
- Expert in SQL query writing for data exploration and management
- Passionate about data and experienced with analyzing large datasets
- Driven, curious, and quick to absorb information; comfortable independently solving problems despite ambiguity
- Confident communicator capable of providing efficient perspective to all levels of the organization
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at BigCommerce
We have the opportunity to build not only a great business but a great company, with soul. Our beliefs and commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion are a central part of achieving that.
Our dedication to DEI is grounded in two things: a moral belief in the dignity, value, and potential of every individual, and a practical belief that diverse, inclusive teams will create the best outcomes for our customers, partners, employees, and company. We welcome everyone to be a part of our journey.
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