Strategy & Business Operations Associate

| Greater Denver Area
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Company

Skupos is the data platform for the convenience retail industry. Retailers, distributors, and brands convene on the Skupos network to create value from previously disparate and hard-to-obtain data. We build tools with this data to help each industry player succeed. Our software integrates at a retailer’s point of sale and automates the inventory and ordering processes. For distributors and CPG brands, we provide real-time insight into customer inventory and market basket data.

Role

As a Strategy and Business Operations Associate at Skupos, you will help to tackle some of our toughest business challenges, identify the right solutions, and support our teams in executing those solutions. You are a champion of making decisions based on data and can quickly wrangle different data sources to provide answers that drive business impact. Your strategic thinking around solutions can help push Skupos forward faster and more effectively. As a cross-functional expert, you are able to tie business challenges together and advance the company across our operations. And as a persuasive communicator, you are able to make succinct recommendations to senior executives, influence decisions by building consensus, and mobilize teams to execute.

Team

The Strategy & BizOps role will be part of our Strategy & Growth team, which is a small cross-functional group that works on different business problems across the company. As our first Business Operations hire, you will play a large role in defining the future of BizOps at Skupos. We strive to learn fast, think fast, and move fast. People development is a top priority, so frequent feedback is expected and encouraged from all team members.

Responsibilities:

  • Structuring complex and ambiguous strategic problems for the Strategy & Growth team and Skupos executive leadership.
  • Analyzing large amounts of fragmented data quickly and effectively to reduce complexity and synthesize insights.
  • Developing creative, compelling, and actionable recommendations.
  • Partnering with leaders of Skupos functions—especially our marketing, sales, and customer experience departments—to make informed decisions based on your data, insights, and recommendations.
  • Working closely with functional leadership to operationalize and implement decisions.
  • Leading cross-functional projects and building consensus across the organization.
  • Visit both our San Francisco and Denver offices on a consistent basis to collaborate with other teams.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Master’s, MBA, or other advanced degree is a plus).
  • 2+ years of experience in a data-driven analytical role, such as in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Venture Capital.
  • Strong exposure to BI/analytics, with a track record of delivering analytics solutions supporting business decisions.
  • Experience in a high-growth tech company environment with a focus on bizops, metrics, or growth is a plus.
  • Top notch analytical skills and a strategic mindset.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills to articulate complex ideas in simple ways.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across functions.
  • Self motivation, process-driven perspective, and detail orientation.
  • Proficiency with Excel, Tableau, SQL, and other analytical BI tools.
  • Understanding of statistical methods and modeling.
  • Ability to thrive and adapt in a high growth and rapidly changing startup environment.

Responsibilities:

  • Structuring complex and ambiguous strategic problems for the Strategy & Growth team and Skupos executive leadership.
  • Analyzing large amounts of fragmented data quickly and effectively to reduce complexity and synthesize insights.
  • Developing creative, compelling, and actionable recommendations.
  • Partnering with leaders of Skupos functions—especially our marketing, sales, and customer experience departments—to make informed decisions based on your data, insights, and recommendations.
  • Working closely with functional leadership to operationalize and implement decisions.
  • Leading cross-functional projects and building consensus across the organization.
  • Visit both our San Francisco and Denver offices on a consistent basis to collaborate with other teams.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (Master’s, MBA, or other advanced degree is a plus).
  • 2+ years of experience in a data-driven analytical role, such as in Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Private Equity, or Venture Capital.
  • Strong exposure to BI/analytics, with a track record of delivering analytics solutions supporting business decisions.
  • Experience in a high-growth tech company environment with a focus on bizops, metrics, or growth is a plus.
  • Top notch analytical skills and a strategic mindset.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills to articulate complex ideas in simple ways.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and ability to collaborate across functions.
  • Self motivation, process-driven perspective, and detail orientation.
  • Proficiency with Excel, Tableau, SQL, and other analytical BI tools.
  • Understanding of statistical methods and modeling.
  • Ability to thrive and adapt in a high growth and rapidly changing startup environment.
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Skupos is in the heart of Downtown Downtown only a few blocks away from Union Station with a beautiful view of the Rocky Mountains!

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