Operations Analyst II

About Weee!

Weee! is the largest and fastest-growing ethnic e-grocer in the United States, operating in one of the largest underserved categories in retail with affordable access to exciting ethnic food. By partnering with local suppliers, redesigning the value chain and leveraging social buying, Weee! is reshaping the grocery business entirely. You can read more about us on Business Insider, Reuters and TechCrunch.

Weee! is headquartered in Fremont, CA, and is currently available coast to coast with exceptional growth (5x YoY) across geographies, categories and ethnicities. We have raised $800M+ in funding to date from leading investors including Softbank Vision Funds, DST, Blackstone, Tiger Global, Lightspeed Ventures, Goodwater Capital, XVC and iFly. The opportunity now is to join a rocketship as we prepare for the next stage of growth, and an eventual public listing.

This role is onsite 5 days a week in Fremont, CA

Responsibilities

• Identify trends in revenue, sales, and operating expenses by devising and implementing analytical strategies as well as conducting modeling and competitive statistical analysis.
• Support business leaders regarding launches/expansion and customer/pricing strategies to maximize profitability by creating predictive models and providing recommendations.
• Built statistical and machine learning models to recommend optimal ice quantities during the packing process and optimize SKU selection logic, resulting in a 3% increase in customer satisfaction and $1M revenue growth.
• Implemented data-driven strategies for order placement window extension, minimal order value, optimal delivery days, and holiday delivery schedules through causal inference, yielding a 5% contribution margin improvement.
• Delivered data support and insights to C-level leadership stakeholders & cross-functional teams, fulfilling total 300+ requirements through root-cause analysis, modeling, and visualization using SQL and Python. Topics included labor reduction, operational improvement, contributing to measurable improvements and optimized workflows.
• Directed end-to-end creation of diverse dashboards, overseeing business metrics alignment, ETL code development, Tableau view design, data validation and dashboard maintenance.
• Provided valuable insights into overall warehouse performance, packaging costs, customer refunds, warehouse timeliness and late cutoff launch reports. Designed (Figma) & developed user-friendly interfaces enabling daily utilization by warehouse managers and senior leadership
• Contributed to build data pipeline(ETL) to enhance data accessibility with clean data(Airflow); Supported analysts in accelerating data retrieval from various tables, leading to enhanced efficiency in achieving business objectives.
• Process Improvement & Design
• Enhanced the last-mile loading and delivery process to boost driver efficiency, decrease lead time, achieving an annual cost reduction exceeding half a million dollars nationwide.
• Optimized order batching algorithm from batching by SKU similarity to batching by route and standardized picking process by eliminating put wall, enhancing operational productivity and yielding annual labor savings
• Designed and implemented an innovative algorithm for dynamic affinity-based slotting.

Qualifications

Job entails working with and requires master’s degree in industrial engineering, Data Analytics or related analytical fields with Candidate must have 1-year professional experience in:

• Python
• SQL
• Tableau
• R
• Figma
• ETL

Work Time: M-F; 9:00 am to 6:00 pm. 40 hrs./week. 

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance package, including medical, dental, and vision.  PPO/HMO packages
• 401k, 4% company match
• Equity and Bonus 
• Vacation, sick and holiday time off
• Monthly mobile stipend
• Monthly Weee! Points credits

Compensation Range

• The US base salary for this full-time position is $97219
• This role may be eligible to discretionary bonus, incentives and benefits 
• Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location

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Weee! is an equal opportunity employer welcoming all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other basis prohibited by law.  Discrimination or harassment of any kind is not tolerated at Weee!. If you need to inquire about an accommodation or need assistance with completing the application, please email us at applicantaccommodation@sayweee.com.

For more jobs and to find out more about Weee!, visit our career page: https://about.sayweee.com/careers

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