At GAF, we cover more than buildings. We cover each other. No matter what role, tenure, or track, under this roof you are empowered to be there for your teammates, your customers, and especially your community. Under this roof, we don’t back down from hard work– we support one another in pursuit of something bigger. We define the future while leading the present. And under this roof, we own our opportunities. Becoming the market leader only happens when everyone feels they have the opportunity, and the support, to thrive. We are GAF. And under this roof, we protect what matters most.

Team Summary
The Senior Retail Sales Analyst is part of our Retail Sales Support team. This position is based in our corporate office in Parsippany, NJ and will be on a hybrid 3:2 in office schedule.

Job Summary
The Senior Retail Sales Analyst is responsible for supporting our retail accounts through data and financial analysis, pricing, deduction root cause analysis, training, and coordination with other internal departments. This position will provide ad hoc reporting, maintain our systems and data, create dashboards, and answer business questions with supporting data. This position will become an expert working with our Retailer's systems and data. The ideal candidate will serve as a team lead for the analytics, pricing and deduction functions.

Essential Duties

• Ad Hoc Analysis
  • Pull and present data as requested
• Analytics
  • Provides sales forecasts as requested from Sales Leadership
  • Inventory position reviews during SKU transitions or as requested by Sales Leadership
  • Maintain expert knowledge of Retailer data and systems
  • Use available data to identify sales insights
  • Create sales forecasts to be used in presentations, business cases, product load-in, etc.
  • Work with Deduction Specialist to perform root cause analysis
  • Prepare data to be presented as appropriate based on the audience
• Stocking Analysis
  • Build and maintain a stocking data model to help make stocking decisions
  • Determine proper special order SKU availability based on plant sourcing and color availability.
  • Perform sales analysis to determine optimal SKU assortments in retail stores
  • Perform analysis to help determine if new products should be stocked
• Data Responsibilities
  • Work with IT and other team members to ensure data accuracy with business and system process improvements
  • Maintain expert knowledge of retail POS (point of sale) and GAF sales data
  • Maintain knowledge of other data sources available for analysis
• Financial Analysis
  • Run P&Ls to help make pricing decisions
  • Supports the Manager of Retail Operations in the ownership of the full Retail business P&L and comprehensive financial analysis of the business performance including pricing, raw material costs, manufacturing performance, distribution costs, etc.
  • Perform financial analysis of monthly & quarterly performance as well as supporting the Manager of Retail Operations in forward looking analysis of business impacts to mitigate risk and create value through opportunities
  • Provide analytical support to key Retail growth and strategic initiatives (including enterprise priorities & large cross functional projects) through involvement in business case reviews, valuation methodology and financial analysis including KPIs to measure performance against goals
  • Report all monthly results and prepare quarterly trade group analysis
  • Develop understanding of the manufacturing performance of the Residential and Commercial plant network, and financial impacts
  • Supports the Marketing team in the quantification of financial impacts related to programs/initiatives, product roadmaps, new product launches, sku rationalization, etc.
  • Identifies opportunities to improve financial reporting and analysis with enhanced data capture, system improvements, etc.
• Team Leadership
  • Train and support other team members
  • Review the teams work to ensure accuracy

Qualifications Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Discipline
• Eight or more years of related work experience

Qualifications Preferred

• Advanced Spreadsheet skills
• Advanced Analysis Design and Presentation
• Skilled Process Design and Improvement
• Advanced communication skills, both verbal and written
• Advanced time management skills
• Ability to handle multiple tasks
• Able to take initiative and ownership of projects
• Strong problem solving with acute attention to detail
• Building Strategic Working Relationships

Travel Requirements: 0-10%

How We Protect What Matters Most:

1. We offer a wide range of health insurance options that include medical, dental, and vision for you and your family. 2. Our Family-Building benefits support the many different journeys to fertility and parenthood. 3. Our robust 401K plan includes an employer match contribution with your pre-tax and/or Roth contributions. 4. Other exciting programs and perks are available to help employees achieve work-life balance, including (but not limited to) a wellness program, free financial coaching, a referral program, and product rebates when purchased for an employee’s primary residence. 5. Professional growth and development are very important to us! We offer internal training programs and courses, as well as a generous tuition reimbursement program. 6. We put diversity and inclusion into action with our Employee Resource Groups, which unite employees based on common perspectives, identities, demographic factors, or out of a desire to be an ally.

GAF complies with federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR Services at 833-HR-XPERT.

We believe our employees are our greatest resource. We offer competitive salary, benefits, 401k, and vacation packages for all full time permanent positions. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and GAF, Standard Logistics, SGI, and Siplast are proud to be affirmative action employers. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. If applying for positions in the U.S., must be eligible to work in the U.S. without need for employer sponsored visa (work permit).