Business Analyst Jobs

Brief Description
The Business Analyst is responsible for measuring the effectiveness and success of Baldor’s overall sales & marketing strategy, as well as securing requirements with national accounts.
This individual will be integral in reporting and data ownership to show how Baldor consumes and reacts to data, optimizes sales opportunities, ensure contractual & reporting compliance, and reduce financial liabilities.
This position will present findings and share insights with multiple business leaders throughout the organization including sales, merchandising, marketing, and senior leadership. This position will also have the opportunity to present and explain reports to external business leaders.
Responsibilities:
Maintain and improve daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly dashboards and reporting for sales, customer success, and executive management to track essential KPI's, and report on trends.

• Work with sales directors and managers to assist with sales strategy development and execution.
• Develop and evolve key performance metrics to help drive sales productivity.
• Analyze KPI and metrics to identify trends and data-driven insights; provide recommendations to improve sales effectiveness.
• Provide training to end-users on sales tools, processes, and best practices.
• Assist Sales team members with completing RFPs, including updating content, working with a cross-functional team to obtain all the necessary information, and ensuring that the final product is accurate and delivered on time.
• Further develop and maintain suite of sales performance dashboards in Tableau/PowerBI. Identify and develop opportunities for self-service analytics dashboards and reports wherever possible.
• Use story-telling skills to deliver insights that are clear, concise, and actionable.
• Perform all regular and ad-hoc sales reporting requests and identify options for automation of reporting wherever possible.

Requirements:

• Expertise in Microsoft Excel is required.
• 5+ years’ experience in an analytical role is preferred.
• Experience reporting for and presenting to C-Suite Executives.
• Strong business intelligence and data skills.
• Experience with or working knowledge of SQL is preferred but not required.
• Report-writing/storytelling skills – developing/delivering recommendations & summaries to key business partners at all levels.
• Expertise in BI tools (Tableau; PowerBI) is strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Business/Marketing or similar or equivalent work experience is required.