Manager, Analytics Solutions & Experience
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Overview of the Role
As part of Circana’s Global Solutions organization, the Manager – Analytics Solutions & Experience will play a critical role in elevating how our advanced analytics are delivered, experienced, and adopted by clients through the Unify platform.
This role sits at the intersection of product, and client delivery. While our product teams continue to develop best in class models and methodologies, this role ensures those capabilities are translated into intuitive, scalable, and client ready solutions using Genius Script and Unify.
The person in this role will be a hands - on solution builder and thought partner—focused on synthesis, usability, and storytelling—ensuring our analytics are not only powerful, but also actionable, easy to navigate, and compelling for clients.
Key Responsibilities
Analytics Solution Design & Enablement (Primary Focus)
- Serve as a Genius Script expert, leveraging scripting capabilities to build, refine, and scale analytics solutions within Unify.
- Translate advanced analytics and data science outputs into client ready, user friendly workflows, dashboards, and narratives.
- Partner closely with internal product experts, and delivery teams to ensure methodologies are represented accurately while remaining intuitive and consumable for end users.
- Identify opportunities to improve solution usability, clarity, and consistency across Unify experiences.
- Act as a steward for best practice analytics design, balancing rigor with simplicity.
Client Experience & Platform Adoption
- Champion the client experience by ensuring insights are easy to interpret, intuitive to navigate, and aligned to client business questions.
- Proactively identify friction points in how clients engage with analytics and recommend solutions or enhancements.
- Support key client engagements by showcasing solutions, walking through logic and outputs, and ensuring confidence in how analytics are produced and interpreted.
- Partner with Sales, Account, and Client Service teams to support high‑impact demos, pilots, and existing client expansions when advanced analytics are involved.
Cross‑Functional Leadership & Influence
- Act as a connective layer between data science, analytics delivery, and client‑facing teams, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.
- Influence solution roadmaps by bringing forward client feedback, usability insights, and opportunities for scalable enhancements.
- Establish and document standards, templates, and reusable components for Genius Script and Unify analytics solutions.
- Mentor and enable peers on effective analytics storytelling, synthesis, and platform best practices.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Stay current on analytics methodologies, visualization techniques, and UX best practices related to data products.
- Experiment with new ways to surface insights, automate workflows, and elevate storytelling within Unify.
- Identify opportunities where Genius Script can extend or enhance existing capabilities without adding unnecessary complexity.
Skills & Experience
Functional Expertise
- 5+ years of experience in analytics, insights, data visualization, or solution design within a retail, CPG, or related data‑driven environment.
- Strong experience working with Circana solutions, including building or enhancing Unify reporting.
- Hands‑on experience with Genius Script or similar scripting / logic‑driven analytics tools.
- Demonstrated ability to synthesize complex analyses into clear, actionable insights.
- Advanced data visualization experience (Unify, Tableau, Power BI, JavaScript, or similar tools).
- High proficiency in Excel (pivots, formulas; macros a plus).
Analytics Storytelling & UX Orientation
- Exceptional ability to articulate complex analytics and methodologies in simple, impactful terms.
- Strong point of view on what makes analytics useful, intuitive, and trustworthy for clients.
- Experience designing analytics with the end user in mind—not just the output.
Collaboration & Influence
- Proven ability to work cross‑functionally with product, delivery, and client‑facing teams.
- Strong communication skills with the confidence to challenge, refine, and elevate ideas.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity and helping to bring structure and clarity.
Client Focus
- Client‑centric mindset with a passion for delivering an outstanding analytics experience.
- Ability to understand client objectives and ensure analytics solutions align to real business needs.
- Experience supporting client discussions, demos, or enablement around advanced analytics.
- Strong judgment in balancing customization with scalability.
ABOUT CIRCANA:
What we do:
Circana is the leading advisor on the complexity of consumer behavior. Through unparalleled technology, advanced analytics, cross-industry data, and deep expertise, we provide clarity that helps almost 7,000 of the world’s leading brands and retailers take action and unlock business growth. We understand more about the complete consumer, the complete store, and the complete wallet so our clients can go beyond the data to apply insights, ignite innovation, meet consumer demand, and outpace the competition.
Our Behaviors:
As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion our behaviors through-out the business within their day-to-day role:
- We are hungry to learn and grow, individually and with our teams. As persistent problem solvers, we ask "what has to be true?" to make things happen. We experiment and consider new ways to innovate, raise the bar across our teams, an believe there is always room for improvement.
- We embrace complexity and derive meaning from complex information to create clear direction. However, we also must not make the complex complicated. We leverage data, science, and technology to break complexity into manageable chunks in order to surface opportunities, prioritize the highest impact areas and inspire action.
- We are accountable for decisions and take ownership for our choices. We approach situations with an open mind and embrace change, being as consistent as possible and different where necessary.
- We relentlessly focus on adding value for our customer, assessing needs, identifying new opportunities, and collaborating to find the best solution. We deliver an outstanding customer experience and execute with excellence.
- We disrupt and compete as if the challenger. We are never complacent. We assume positive intent as we challenge one another to continuously improve. To do this we consider alternate ideas, value different perspectives, and engage in healthy, candid debate to drive informed decisions.
- We foster trust in relationships and through our actions, engage individuals and teams with empathy, resect and integrity. We actively listen to different perspectives and encourage diversity in ideas, opinions, and points of view to build a better answer.
- Commit to Each Other
- We are fueled by a passion for continuous learning, finding purpose in what we do to focus on our growth. We seek and share feedback freely, ensuring everyone knows how and why they are exceptional and where they can be even better. We celebrate and offer recognition for our collective and individual victories, both big and small. We work hard and smart, creating flexibility to accommodate both work and our lives. We care about our Circana family and promote each person's wellbeing so that all can flourish.
Location: This position can be located in the following area(s): Remote, United States
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The salary range for this role is $70,000- $80,000.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission.
You can apply for this role through the Circana careers website or Intranet site for internal candidates. This role is subject to AI-assisted screening. Circana uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess resumes for alignment with job requirements by helping locate details in resumes that relate to the job description.
The anticipated application deadline for this position is approximately 04/26/2026.
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