Manager, Retail Performance & Analytics

Impossible Foods was founded to transform the global food system and reduce the impact of climate change by making the world’s most delicious, nutritious, and sustainable meat, fish, and dairy — from plants.
Through the revolutionary work of our world-class R&D team, we’re inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish, and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the negative environmental or public health impact.
Our flagship product, Impossible™ Burger, uses 96% less land, 87% less water and generates 89% less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional beef from cows. And the burger is just the beginning. We’re working on recreating every animal product, from chicken to fish, with plant-based ingredients that are vastly better for people and the planet. 
Impossible Foods has experienced spectacular growth over the last few years, and we continue to lead all aspects of the plant-based revolution – from discovery and innovation to commercial production and consumer education. We’re building an amazing team of brilliant, collaborative, mission-driven individuals who take pride in using their diverse skills to contribute to a better world. Our core values include leading with heart, thinking like scientists, and doing the right thing, and our employees embody these attributes in their work every day. 
Want to join the movement? You can help us solve the most urgent, important challenge facing the world today (and have fun doing it). Check out our job opening below:
The Manager, Retail Performance & Analytics will evaluate retail performance of Impossible’s US retail business to identify opportunities and risks, distill the drivers of performance, and communicate insights to cross-functional leadership to help advance our business goals. The role reports to the Sr Manager of Demand Strategy and Revenue Management under our broader Business Analytics function. This is a highly cross functional role that will require partnership with stakeholders across sales, marketing, finance, and business analytics as you develop an effective reporting cadence and analytical assets.

You Will

• Build frameworks for evaluating performance of our SKUs across different retailers
• Develop, maintain, and evolve a scorecard to track progress and identify risks
• Run analysis on syndicated and internal data to understand retail performance drivers and inform sales, product, and marketing strategy 
• Develop predictive models to help evaluate the impact of different investments and activities (e.g., increasing in store ops spend, a change in merchandising strategy, price pack architecture)
• Unpack retail performance and drivers at a retailer, banner, regional, and door level to inform executable, micro-targeted strategies to advance the business 
• Help define success metrics and KPIs, including target velocities and volume 
• Support the sales and category management team by providing insight on opportunities and supporting data requests for partner meeting
• Inform and develop dashboards and reports to distill and share out insights
• Distill and communicate insights on performance to leadership across sales, category management, marketing, and product
• Partner and collaborate with reporting team to develop and refine dashboards
• Help inform product and retailer forecasting in conjunction with Sales, Reporting, & Product teams
• Drive ad hoc strategy & analytics projects to answer critical internal business questions and optimize demand investments

You Have

• 5+ years of experience working in an analytics role, ideally in CPG or Food & Beverage industries focused on the retail channel
• A deep understanding of drivers of performance in retail channel with experience in category management, trade, pricing, and / or revenue management 
• Strong analytical, modeling and quantitative skills; able to manage and drive complex analytics, manipulation of large amounts of data
• Experience working with and synthesizing observations/insights from syndicated data sources (e.g., SPINS, Nielsen, IRI, Panel, Market6, 84.51 etc.)
• Proficiency with quantitative languages and tools including SQL (or another advanced programming language such as R, C++, etc.) is a plus
• Excellent time management skills and the ability to prioritize various work streams
• Strong problem solving and project management skills - combined with the ability to clearly communicate the main takeaways to stakeholders from a wide range of functions
• Advanced verbal, written and visual communication skills
• A Bachelor's degree in a related field (Economics, Finance, Statistics, Data Science, or Business preferred)
• Ability to work under pressure in a dynamic environment
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At Impossible Foods, safety is our priority. Our obligation to our employees (and their families and communities) includes providing a fully vaccinated workplace. It is widely recognized that vaccination is by far the safest and most effective tool for protecting ourselves and our community against the spread of Covid-19. For the sake of our employees, their families, and communities, Impossible Foods will require vaccination by February 1, 2022 for all US-based employees who are on-site at one of IF’s facilities or co-manufacturing facilities; are in a position that requires them to be in person with co-workers, customers, clients, or contractors; or are traveling on behalf of the Company, including attending any in-person Company-sponsored event.
Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 
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If the ability to work remotely is indicated, this role can be performed from any US state except for Alaska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Hawaii, and Wisconsin.
This role is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.