Director of Insights and Analytics at Harvest Group

Worldwide

$160k - $180k

Harvest Group is an integrated commerce agency that helps high-growth consumer brands win in today's complex retail landscape. Since 2006, we've partnered with some of the world's most recognized brands to navigate the intersection of in-store and digital commerce, retail media, and social platforms across leading retailers including Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Amazon, Costco, and Kroger.   What sets Harvest Group apart is our connected approach. By aligning strategy, execution, and insights across every stage of the retail journey—and powering that work through our proprietary technology platform—we help brands create sustainable growth in an increasingly dynamic marketplace.   But our success starts with our people.   At Harvest Group, our culture and values shape how we work, serve our clients, and support one another. We believe in building meaningful relationships, pursuing excellence with humility, and creating an environment where talented individuals can do their best work while continuing to grow professionally and personally.   Our commitment to our people has earned recognition as one of the nation's best workplaces, including: * Inc. Best Places to Work (2025, 2026) * Great Place to Work Certified (2024) * Fortune Best Workplaces for Women (2024) * Fortune Best Medium Workplaces (2024) * Fortune Best Consulting & Professional Services Workplaces (2024) * Business Intelligence Group Best Places to Work (2023) Our Values * Integrity – Doing what is right in all things * Relationship – Pursuing depth, trust, and collaboration * Service – Laboring for others with humility and care * Excellence – Delivering extraordinary performance and results with humility * Journey – Embracing our past and planning for our future with faith Description Harvest Group is seeking a strategic and business-minded Director of Insights & Analytics to lead and evolve our analytics capability, helping both our clients and our organization make smarter, faster, data-driven decisions. This leader will transform retailer, consumer, syndicated, and omnichannel data into actionable insights that drive customer strategy, category growth, sales performance, and measurable business results.   The Director of Insights & Analytics will lead a high-performing team responsible for delivering insights that help clients win across today's retail landscape. The ideal candidate combines analytical expertise, strategic thinking, storytelling, and client partnership to connect data to business outcomes across retailers, categories, and channels.   This role will also shape the future of analytics at Harvest Group by advancing our use of emerging retailer data sources, business intelligence tools, automation, and AI-enabled solutions. The Director will play a critical role in building scalable analytics capabilities, improving operational efficiency, and enhancing the value we deliver to clients and the business.   Responsibilities * Lead the strategy, growth, and evolution of Harvest Group's Insights & Analytics function, ensuring analytics capabilities support both client success and business objectives. * Partner with executive leadership and client teams to identify opportunities for growth, improve decision-making, and deliver measurable business outcomes through data-driven insights. * Transform retailer, consumer, syndicated, shopper, eCommerce, and internal business data into actionable recommendations that influence customer strategy, category growth, sales performance, and marketplace execution. * Provide thought leadership on consumer trends, retailer dynamics, category performance, and emerging opportunities across the retail landscape. * Lead analysis across key retail partners including Walmart, Sam's Club, Target, Kroger, Amazon, Costco, and regional retailers, utilizing platforms such as Retail Link, Luminate, NielsenIQ, Circana (IRI), Stackline, Profitero, and 84.51°. * Oversee analytics reporting, dashboards, scorecards, KPI tracking, forecasting, and predictive analytics to support planning and execution. * Build, mentor, and develop a high-performing team while establishing best practices for analytics, visualization, storytelling, and client communication. * Partner closely with Retailer, Media, Digital Commerce, Finance, Growth, Technology, and Operations teams to improve data accessibility, reporting efficiency, and business performance. * Serve as a trusted advisor to clients and internal stakeholders, translating complex data into compelling narratives and executive-level recommendations. * Advance Harvest Group's analytics capabilities through the adoption of emerging technologies, automation, AI-enabled solutions, and modern business intelligence tools. Requirements * 10+ years of experience in analytics, category management, consumer insights, sales strategy, business intelligence, or related disciplines. * 3+ years of experience leading and developing high-performing teams. * Experience leveraging retailer and syndicated data sources, including Retail Link, Luminate, NielsenIQ, Circana (IRI), Stackline, Profitero, 84.51°, and similar platforms. * Expertise in Power BI, Tableau, Excel, and data visualization best practices. * Strong analytical, problem-solving, and strategic thinking skills with the ability to turn complex datasets into actionable business recommendations. * Exceptional communication, storytelling, and executive presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders and clients. * Experience within CPG, retail brokerage, retailer analytics, or omnichannel commerce environments preferred. * Familiarity with Walmart and Sam's Club ecosystems, SQL, Power Query, Python, advanced analytics technologies, or AI-enabled solutions is a plus. What We Offer Harvest Group understands that investing in our people and culture are vital to successfully attracting and retaining top talent. Our goal is to offer competitive compensation and benefits packages to all employees. Each year, we invest time to research and evaluate how our packages line up with the latest market dynamics.   We carefully consider a wide-ranging list of factors to determine compensation, including but not limited to level of job-related experience, knowledge, skills, location, etc. Base pay is just one component of the total compensation and benefits package.   The national hiring range for this position is $160,000-$180,000 per year. Additionally, this position is eligible to participate in our bonus program.   Our robust benefits package was created to help support employees physically, financially, and emotionally through life’s big milestones and in your everyday life. Benefits include but are not limited to Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K, PTO, Charitable Gift Matching Program, Volunteer Hours, and more!   Our heart at Harvest is to provide and maintain a work environment that fosters diversity, inclusivity, authenticity, mutual respect, professionalism, and growth. Harvest Group is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, color, religion, age, marital status, familial status, national origin, ancestry, disability or handicap, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.   We encourage all interested candidates to apply.