Home Chef is building new ways to provide meal solutions that meet a wide variety of customer needs, and shipping locations both online and in store. Our team is a unique mix of creators, chefs, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers and we’re growing quickly. Our customer-first mentality, combined with a zest for supporting our peers, helped us bring home Built in Chicago’sStartup of the Year Moxie award in 2017. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

As the COVID-19 situation continues to escalate in the US and around the world, we are committed to keeping our teams and their families as our greatest priority. To that end, we are making some adjustments to the way we will be doing business in the upcoming weeks.

We are taking all the necessary precautions to keep our employees and customers safe, and would love to have you on our team as we can continue to serve our communities.

We are seeking an Insights Analyst for our New Product Development Team.

The ideal candidate has an insights foundation and a demonstrated desire to understand and represent the consumer.

This role combines consumer insights with data analytics to synthesize knowledge and create actionable conclusions. Must be curious and willing to roll up your sleeves to understand both consumers and the drivers of results. Able to design research to get at understanding and answers - often without the benefit of a prior template. You will be challenged to determine how to best answer business questions on tight timelines. This individual will support projects across a number of teams and must be able to work cross-functionally with Culinary, Procurement, Marketing, Operations, Tech and Retail.

Must have ability to wear multiple hats, be comfortable with ambiguity and juggle multiple priorities is key to success 

Detailed Responsibilities:

• Design and execute team’s test and learn research plans to guide the real-time development of new e-commerce and Retail products:
• Working closely with the product development teams, design and execute quantitative research to inform product objectives.
• Identify best-practice research methodologies and recommend best approach to answer business questions.
• Translate business questions into the right survey questions.
• Analyze results to deliver synthesized insights and informed recommendations based on data.
• Bring information to life through compelling data stories and identification of clear action.




• Coordinate and execute qualitative research methods:
• Conduct customer interviews and in-home tests.
• Coordinate and execute all aspects of customer focus groups.




• Inform decisions supporting new product roadmap:
• Explore and make sense of future-view consumer and category trends as they apply to our business.
• Design methods to gather data to inform and build models used to size business opportunities.




• Analyze grocery category performance:
• Analyze grocery category data using 84.51 and IRI to inform opportunities in new and existing categories.
• Perform competitive assessments across direct and adjacent categories.

Qualifications: The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, ability and/or other characteristics needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Familiar with consumer insight qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Intuitively analytic with the ability to evaluate business performance.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and execute multiple projects at a time.
• Intermediate or advanced Google Sheets skills

Education:

• Completion of 4-year degree.

Perks/Benefits:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance – benefits start the 1st day of the month following your start date 

- Company paid Life Insurance, Short Term Disability and Long Term Disability

- 401k Employer match - 50% on the $1, up to 6% of the employee's earnings 

- We offer flexible spending accounts (FSA) for qualified Medical, Dependent Care, Parking, or Transit expenses

- Flexible paid time off (PTO) policy, plus sick days 

- Generous Parental Leave 

- Great Work/Life Balance – We value and support each individual team member

- Quarterly company-wide “Town Hall” meetings 

- Ongoing professional development opportunities by level and function

- Your choice of Windows or Mac laptop, plus an extra screen 

- Onsite gym 

- Weekly Fooda credit

- Newly renovated office in the historic Old Main Post Office which is located close to multiple Metra and CTA options

- Employee discounts through Perkspot

- Discounts on Home Chef meal kits and at Kroger stores

- Casual dress in a fun, friendly and collaborative work environment

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Home Chef is an equal opportunity employer.

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