For too long, buying or selling a used car has been a headache and a hassle. But at Vroom, we’re changing the game: our innovative end-to-end ecommerce platform and data-driven technology brings all phases of the vehicle-buying and selling process to consumers wherever they are. Our success is only possible with the help of our hardworking Vroommates, who drive better customer experiences every day. Vroom is an exciting, dynamic workplace, and there's no better time to join the team.

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Job Summary:

The Senior Advanced Analytics Analyst will work under the Managers, Directors, VPs and overall Senior Leadership on Vroom’s transformational strategies. You will do this through collaboration and being able to grasp complex problems through data driven analysis - at times given little instruction in resolving a wide range of issues in creative ways. Your team will synthesize complex problems through analytical solutions that will impact the goals of Vroom. Seasoned experience needed with the ability to demonstrate solid judgment in selecting methods and techniques for obtaining solutions.

Responsibilities

• Continuous improvement of data quality, data gathering, and business insights
• Develop and/or leverage tools and techniques that drive insights to actions most effectively from the data analytics efforts
• Provide analytics support in uncovering Vroom’s largest challenges, creating scalable solutions against those challenges - including how Vroom buys cars, manages its inventory, markets its inventory, and completes the sale and delivery of cars to customers
• Responsible with resolving a wide range of complex issues through making solid judgment in selecting data driven analytical methods and at times creative techniques
• Will adhere to the data-driven thinking of your team as well as work collaboratively in improving initiatives across such areas as:
• Demand, inventory management, pricing, marketing, customer and website analytics
• Provide reporting, slide decks, and descriptive analytics for senior leadership
• Creating models, primarily in Excel, that forecast the most likely outcomes and predict the financial impacts of various strategic business alternatives in the areas of demand, inventory management, pricing, and assortment management
• Ensure that all your reporting and analytical responsibilities are completed competently in a timely manner, continually seeking out opportunities to learn new and hone existing technical skills (e.g. writing SQL/code, statistics, machine learning, etc.) and operate in collaboration with and/or mentorship of more experienced senior leadership and data analysts

Required Skills & Experience

• BA/BS degree or equivalent working experience
• 3 to 5+ years of experience in roles that cover analytic techniques, financial modeling and forecasting, statistical modeling, and demand/revenue analytics
• Technical
  • Demonstrated experience in Excel
  • Proficient SQL knowledge and Python experience preferred
  • Forecasting / modeling skill set
• Functional
  • Critical thinker and problem-solving skills
  • Ability to work on problems of a diverse scope through data driven analysis under the Advanced Analytics umbrella
  • Ability to create order out of chaos, distill learnings, and communicate detailed data driven findings elegantly to team members and leadership
  • Unquenchable intellectual curiosity, finds the underlying story being told within the data
  • Strong collaborator working with individual contributors as well as senior leaders
  • Self-starter who can work independently with minimal supervision and drive objectives and priorities to meet company goals
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a leadership presence
  • Strong bias for action/results; ability to balance speed/agility with process orientation
  • Natural aptitude for solving complex cross-functional problems
  • Driven to exceed expectations

Commitment to Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity

Vroom is an equal opportunity employer committed to creating and supporting a work environment where all employees can find their drive. To do that, we champion a workplace where each and every person is treated with dignity and respect and is valued for their unique perspectives and contributions. We believe our values of SPEED (Service, Progress, Employees, Engagement, and Development) are best realized in an environment, whether physical or virtual, where every individual has the ability to bring their whole selves to work and contribute fully.

Vroom maintains a working environment that encourages mutual respect and promotes harmonious and friendly relationships among employees. The company prohibits any form of employment discrimination or harassment against employees, applicants, or other protected persons in the workplace based on a protected characteristic(s), regardless of who the source is of such conduct. Protected characteristics include race, color, religion, creed, sex (including gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or pregnancy, childbirth, or a related medical condition), national origin, ancestry, ethnicity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, service in the uniformed services, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, and/or local law. This commitment to antidiscrimination and antiharassment applies to all terms, conditions, and privileges of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment and hiring.

Vroom likewise provides reasonable accommodations to qualified applicants, employees, or other legally protected individuals in the workplace with a disability to enable them to participate in the job application process, to perform the essential functions of a job, or to enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment equal to those of other employees, except if the accommodation would pose an undue hardship. The company also makes reasonable accommodations for religious beliefs and practices. 

Vroom complies with all applicable federal, state, and/or local laws relating to equal employment. 

Other Things to Note

This posting is not intended to provide a comprehensive account of the duties and responsibilities that may be required of this position. Duties and responsibilities may change or be added at any time, with or without notice.

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