Data Analyst

McMaster-Carr is a company that stocks and distributes a wide range of products, focusing on creating exceptional customer experiences. They are seeking a Data Analyst to support merchandising efforts by analyzing data and building new systems, as well as developing reports and dashboards to monitor customer impact and operational progress.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data pipelines that serve as the foundation for rich reporting and business intelligence
• Develop and optimize data models that transform raw data into clean, reliable datasets for downstream analysis
• Write clean, well-documented queries and code to ensure pipeline reliability, scalability, and maintainability
• Create reports and dashboards to monitor customer impact and operational progress
• Conduct analyses of customer behavioral data to identify trends and surface opportunities
• Develop business solutions that align with strategy and represent customer needs understood through data analysis and research
• Validate the impact of key metrics on long-term business objectives in a statistically rigorous manner
• Evaluate and build tools that enable teammates to solve problems and maximize customer impact

Skills

• A bachelor's degree is required for this role
• 1-2 years of professional experience in analytics engineering, data engineering, data science, or related fields
• Proficiency in SQL and Python (including libraries such as NumPy and Pandas)
• Experience designing and building data pipelines and data models
• Experience writing clean, well-documented, and version-controlled code
• Strong analytical and critical thinking ability
• Demonstrated ability and interest in using data to drive business decisions
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office
• Experience with statistical methods such as decision trees, clustering, A/B analysis, or regression
• Bachelor's degree in Math, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, Quantitative Methods, or a related field
• Experience with HTML, JavaScript, or Neo4j

Benefits

• 100% tuition reimbursement
• Medical, dental, pharmacy, and vision plans with no monthly premiums
• Industry-leading company-funded retirement accounts
• Employee resource groups
• Inclusive, all-gender benefits
• First-time home buyer assistance
• Paid parental leave for all new parents
• Adoption and surrogacy assistance
• Paid time off for vacation and personal time

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