Job Title:  Sr Product Analyst

What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazer’s is well-established, and it's no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazer’s has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity, as well as for Women and Parents and Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

As the dependency on high quality data increases for internal users, customers, suppliers, and third-party partners, it is critical for Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits (SGWS) to establish an appropriate level of governance around our data, processes, and systems. The Data COE is focused on driving data integrity by establishing data standards and accountability, facilitating cross-functional collaboration, and implementing data quality monitoring and reporting. The Data Governance function orchestrates data governance across sites, regions, and functions to enable and maintain best-in-class data quality for all users (customers, suppliers, vendors, sales representatives, and 3rd party partners).

The Senior Product Analyst role requires a dynamic and detail-oriented thinker that will bridge the gap between business needs and technical solutions, helping to define, analyze and refine requirements in an Agile environment.  This role will work closely with stakeholders, product owners, and development teams to ensure that business objectives are met efficiently and effectively.

Primary Responsibilities

•    Collaborate with stakeholders to document business requirements and translate business needs into user stories, acceptance criteria, and functional specifications.
•    Conduct proactive data analysis to identify trends, anomalies and opportunities for improvement in data processes and data quality.
•    Participate in agile ceremonies, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives, ensuring a continuous feedback loop between teams.
•    Support Product Owner by prioritizing and maintaining the product backlog and contributing to the product roadmap in alignment with business goals.
•    Act as a liaison between technical teams and business stakeholders.
•    Provide support for testing, validation, and user acceptance processes.
•    Develop and maintain documentation and materials for standards and governance, data validation, data quality reporting, data flow diagrams, business processes, training, and change management.
•    Assist in the refinement of data models/dictionaries/standards, ensuring they align with business needs and technical feasibility.
•    Define, implement, track, and report on KPIs/metrics to monitor the effectiveness of data product initiatives, data quality improvements, and product impact.
•    Report findings and work proactively with data governance, data stewards and business systems to propose methods of remediation.
•    Mentor other analysts and contribute to the development of best practices within the Data CoE.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Contribute to management of central data stores and metadata to establish quality expectations.
• Identify opportunities to increase data quality, including automation and data entry procedural training.
• Monitor business perception of data quality.
• Follows and sometimes creates techniques for data collection, accuracy and management.
• Report findings and works proactively with data governance, data stewards, business systems to propose methods for remediation.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, IT or related field.
• Typically, 3+ years of experience as a business analyst or related profession
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and collaborate with technical and non-technical teams.

Physical Demands

• Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or adding machine
• Physical demands with activity or condition may include occasional to the rare amount of time include walking, bending, reaching, standing, and stooping
• Critical nature of this job may require extended hours, overtime and weekends
• May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.