Business Analyst Lead

Work Location Type: Hybrid 

Imperial Supplies, a Grainger Company, is a national distributor of quality maintenance products. Serving the fleet maintenance industry since 1958, Imperial has formed lasting relationships with customers by tailoring our services to meet their changing needs.

Our welcoming workplace enables you to learn, grow and make a difference by keeping businesses running and their people safe. As a Great Place to Work-Certified™ company, we’re looking for passionate people to join our team as we continue leading the industry.

Would you like to join a dynamic company in a fast-paced, driven team environment? Build your career with an industry leader whose motto is “People First”. We are recruiting for a Business Analyst Lead in Green Bay, WI!

The Business Analyst Lead provides strategic leadership for enterprise business intelligence capabilities across analytics, data science, and digital analytics. This role is responsible for designing, implementing, and advancing analytics solutions that transform complex data into actionable insights and measurable business value.

Partnering closely with the Director of Business Analytics, this position helps define priorities and mature enterprise analytics capabilities through strong governance, standards, and best practices. The Business Analyst Lead collaborates cross-functionally and with executive leadership to ensure analytics investments align with organizational strategy and support informed, data-driven decision-making.

Why should you join our team?

• Competitive salary    
• Hybrid / Remote schedule; work 2 days in office and 3 from home!
• Monday – Friday work schedule, no nights or weekends required!
• Immediate medical, dental, vision; 12 hours of PTO for every full month worked (up to 144 hours a year!), 6 paid holidays and 6% of annual earnings contributed to your retirement, immediately vested!

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as a liaison between IT, business stakeholders, and third-party partners to translate business needs into scalable, governed, and reusable analytics and reporting solutions.
• Design and deliver insights using business intelligence, analytics, data science, and digital analytics tools through descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive methods.
• Establish, document, and maintain enterprise standards and best practices across analytics intake, development, access controls, delivery processes, and output quality.
• Act as a subject matter expert, partnering with internal teams and external vendors to implement best practices and continuously improve the end-to-end analytics lifecycle.
• Proactively develop measurement plans that support continuous improvement and identify opportunities to streamline and automate analytics and operational processes.
• Coach and mentor analysts on visualization best practices, efficient data modeling, effective storytelling, and optimal project design.
• Support onboarding and training of new analysts and interns.
• Collaborate closely with the Data Management team to enhance and evolve the enterprise data platform.
• Perform other related duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, computer science, analytics, statistics, business, or a related field — or equivalent professional experience.
• 2+ years of working knowledge with SQL, Snowflake, Python, and Jira.
• 3+ years of experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools, including demonstrated data modeling expertise.
• 5+ years of experience using Microsoft Office tools and conducting root cause analysis.
• Digital marketing analytics experience, including exposure to:
• Customer segmentation and audience analysis
• Cross-channel performance analysis
• E-commerce merchandising and product search
• Product information management
• SEO and paid digital advertising
• Experience integrating and administering third-party applications and data sources.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with a specialization in analytics or a related discipline.
• Advanced expertise in SQL, R, Python, Jira, and Microsoft tools (Excel, Access, Azure/SQL, PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Experience with machine learning and AI-driven analytics.
• Hands-on experience with tools such as Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, BigQuery, Microsoft Clarity, and Qualtrics.
• Experience supporting analytics initiatives in Sales, Procurement, and Distribution environments.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong business acumen with a natural analytical curiosity.
• Ability to work with large, complex, and diverse data sets to inform business decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence across departments.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Self-directed with strong accountability, time-management, and multitasking skills in a fast-paced environment.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status or any other protected characteristic under federal, state, or local law. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

We are committed to fostering an inclusive, accessible work environment that includes both providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities during the application and hiring process as well as throughout the course of one’s employment, should you need a reasonable accommodation during the application and selection process, including, but not limited to use of our website, any part of the application, interview or hiring process, please advise us so that we can provide appropriate assistance.