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Wayfair Commercial Analyst - Full-Time (Summer 2024 Start) in Boston, Massachusetts

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<p>Wayfair is seeking analytical, entrepreneurial, and action-oriented candidates for Business Analyst opportunities. Analysts will play a critical role in Wayfair’s growth strategy and competitive positioning by leveraging data-driven analyses and innovative approaches to drive results for internal and external business partners. Successful Analysts are quantitatively-oriented, endlessly curious, and thrive in fast-paced and collaborative environments. This is an ideal opportunity for candidates who are interested in entering the technology and e-commerce space, developing hands-on analytical and technical skills, and working closely with core business functions to drive real impact and results.</p>

<p>Wayfair places Business Analysts into several core business functions. Function placement is determined through the application and interview process and is dependent on a combination of interest, skills, experience, and business demand.&nbsp;</p>

<p><strong>Functional areas and potential team placements include:</strong></p>

<p><strong>Commercial</strong></p>

<p>Wayfair’s Commercial team is focused on (1) building the best offering in home, (2) making every interaction a great experience for our customers to encourage them to keep returning, and (3) growing awareness of our full offering and building habits with our brand. Commercial Analysts are focused on steering growth strategy, optimization of Wayfair’s competitive positioning and billion-dollar P&amp;L management across Wayfair’s product verticals, by leveraging highly quantitative business analytics. The Commercial team has a big appetite for bold ideas, a strong bias for action, and provides a distinct opportunity to drive decisions that have significant impact across every major business function at the company. Commercial Analysts constantly use data to drive profitable top line revenue, while working cross-functionally to affect product selection, merchandising, operations, and marketing initiatives. Analysts play a key role in building cutting edge ‘Big Data’ and leveraging these unique, proprietary, and massive datasets, coupled with a constant flow of experimentation on consumer response, to answer thorny questions that guide our go-to-market strategy.</p>

<p><strong>What You’ll Need:&nbsp;</strong></p>

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<li>Strong consultative skills: ability to work effectively and persuasively with a highly cross- functional group of business partners</li>

<li>Strong business acumen: ability to understand how various parts of the business interact; can identify and approach problems from a customer or supplier perspective</li>

<li>Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills: excited about working with and synthesizing big data into actionable insights; comfortable using data software to conduct analyses and synthesize findings</li>

<li>Exceptional problem-solving and execution skills: ability to make decisions, reprioritize tasks, and draw conclusions in the face of ambiguity</li>

<li>Excellent written and verbal communication skills</li>

<li>Proficient with Microsoft Excel</li>

<li>Familiarity with any programming language is a plus, including motivation to learn and develop the skill-set (Google BigQuery/SQL, R, Python)</li>

<li>Bachelor's degree earned by Summer 2024</li>

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<p><strong>An Important Note about Wayfair's In-Office Policy:</strong></p>

<p>All Boston-based interns, Co-ops, and corporate employees will be in office in a hybrid capacity. Employees will work in the office on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, and work remotely on Friday.</p>

<p><em><strong>At this time, Wayfair is unable to hire candidates that require visa sponsorship now or in the future for this position.</strong></em></p>

<p></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities</strong></p>

<p>Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, please let us know by completing our&nbsp;<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1ElBqKaQYGR9j0NiQHQYCGbHkqKqN746Nk62pI32IyLU" target="_blank">Accomodations for Applicants form</a>.</p>

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<p><strong>About Wayfair Inc.</strong><br>Your personal data is processed in accordance with our Candidate Privacy Notice (https://www.wayfair.com/careers/privacy). If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights under applicable privacy and data protection laws, please contact us at dataprotectionofficer@wayfair.com.</p></div>

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