Family-owned for three generations, World's Finest® Chocolate crafts our own premium chocolate recipe from our sweet home Chicago. Known and loved for its fundraising products, World’s Finest® Chocolate is equally proud to create Queen Anne® cordial cherries and a scrumptious selection of World’s Finest® gift items. Whether you have a taste for chocolate-covered Continental® Almonds or prefer the smooth bite of a Mint Meltaway®, World’s Finest® Chocolate’s delicious varieties are sure to satisfy your chocolate cravings. We have the capacity to produce well over 250,000 pounds of chocolate per day.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

World’s Finest Chocolate is seeking a Sales Data Analyst to support our North American retail sales organization.
This high-visibility role partners with national account teams (Walmart, Target, Costco, Kroger, etc.) to transform raw sales, syndicated, and trade-spend data into actionable insights via dashboards, ad-hoc reporting, ROI models, and trade-promotion analysis, while driving cross-functional projects from ideation to execution. The ideal candidate is a self-starter with strong Excel/SQL skills, early experience in Tableau or Power BI, project management discipline (timelines, stakeholders, deliverables), and a passion for CPG retail metrics.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES"

Dashboard Development & Maintenance (30%):

Build and refresh weekly/monthly Tableau (or Power BI) dashboards tracking:

POS velocity, ACV distribution, % promo, share of shelf

Category growth vs. prior year / plan

Customer P&L summaries

Automate data pipelines using Alteryx, Python, or native connector tools.

Utilize SQL to query and aggregate customer transaction data from a PostgreSQL database, identifying trends that informed marketing strategies

Retail & Syndicated Data Pulls & Analysis (25%):

Extract and cleanse data from:

Retailer portals (Retail Link, Partners Online, VIP, etc.)

Syndicated sources (Circana/IRI, Nielsen, SPINS, 84.51°/Kroger Precision)

Perform period-over-period, plan-vs-actual, and promo lift analyses.

Flag outliers and reconcile discrepancies with account teams.
Conduct ad hoc analysis and provide insights for key business questions

Trade Spend & ROI Analysis (20%):

Maintain trade-spend tracker; calculate ROI, GMROI, and incremental lift for every door-level event.

Partner with Trade Marketing to recommend optimal spend mix (TPR, display, feature).

Build post-event recaps within 5 business days of event close.

Project Management & Cross-Functional Support (25%):

Lead analytics-driven projects (e.g., new item launch tracking, void closure initiatives, assortment optimization, JBP data room prep).

Own JDA/Blue Yonder or internal planning templates for quarterly line reviews and JBP prep.

Define scope, timelines, milestones, and deliverables; run status meetings and drive stakeholder alignment.

Document processes and train account managers on self-service tools.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Business, Economics, Statistics, or related field.

Experience:

1–3 years in CPG sales analytics, revenue growth management, or category management.

Hands-on experience pulling data from retailer portals and syndicated sources (Circana, Nielsen, etc.).

Proven ability to build dashboards in Tableau or Power BI.

Intermediate Excel (VLOOKUP, pivot tables, index/match); intermediate SQL skills.

1+ years managing projects end-to-end (charter, timeline, status updates, stakeholder alignment).

PREFERRED SKILLS:

Familiarity with trade promotion management (TPM) tools or TPM ROI models.

Experience with workflow automation or ETL tools (e.g., Alteryx, Power Automate, Zapier, UiPath, or scripting).

Strong storytelling with data; able to present to non-technical stakeholders.

Experience with Smartsheet, Asana, or Microsoft Project.