In the past six years, Zoro has grown from a group of 6 people working out of a 2,000 square foot building, offering fewer than 100,000 products to a group of 280+ working out of a 60,000+ square foot building, offering more than 2,000,000 unique products.

Imagine what you could help us achieve as a Data Specialist! 

Zoro is seeking a Data Specialist to play a key role in the design, development and operations of our new analytics platform. S/he will act as primary liaison to our business partners, from understanding their reporting & analytic needs to training them on new data structures and visualization tools.

Job Responsibilities Include:

• Collaborate with key business partner groups (e.g. Marketing, Finance) to understand their needs and work with Data Engineers to build them into the new Zoro analytics platform
  • Coordinate requirement gathering
  • Identify best data sources
  • Determine metrics, attributes and history needed
  • Convert business needs to functional and technical requirements
  • Develop and lead training efforts
• BI & Analytics tool lead
  • Facilitate selection of tool standards (e.g. visualization, metadata, machine-learning)
  • Coordinate installation, configuration & administration
  • Assemble, and develop/lead where appropriate, training resources and programs
• Lead effort to develop and populate a new Data Dictionary, containing company-wide definitions & formulas for key business terms
• Grow into the acknowledged department business & source system data expert
• Key contributor to defining and implementing:
  • Data Services
  • Data Governance
  • Data Lineage
  • MDM
  • Policies, SOPs & Best Practices
  • Quality Program
• Ongoing data request intake, triage and assignment

Skills & Responsibilities:

• Experience collecting requirements and converting to functional and technical requirements
• Strong analytical skills, detail oriented, and passionate about data and the insight it brings
• Hands on BI tool development expertise
• Proficient in SQL
• Excellent verbal and written communications. Ability to effectively communicate with both technical & non-technical team members and all levels of management
• Strong team player
• Working knowledge of eCommerce data a plus
• Google Cloud Platform services experience a plus

Success Criteria

• Strong analytical thinking and problem solving skills
• Superior communication and business-technical interaction skills
• Positive, “get it done” attitude
• Ability to multi-task and manage multiple activities with varying timelines

To qualify, you must possess the following skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or similar technical discipline (e.g. Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Finance)
• 10 years’ advanced reporting and dashboards experience
• Key resource on team(s) that have delivered successful enterprise-level analytics platforms

Zoro is an Equal Opportunity Workplace and an Affirmative Action Employer.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.