LP Data and System Specialist

Location: Lakeland, FL
Job ID: 30574BR
Department: Finance (Loss Prevention/Security)
Working Hours: 8:00am - 4:30pm; Monday - Friday; Hybrid Policy: Up to 2-days per week, after training has been completed
Pay Frequency: Monthly
Date Posted: Oct 03, 2024

$67 - 101k

Hybrid

Full Time - Regular

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Description

The Data and System Specialist provides expertise and technical skills for Asset Protection (AP) data sources, systems, strategic initiatives, projects, reporting, and technology. This includes gathering, compiling, and interpreting data, being a department subject matter expert (SME) on multiple data sets and processes; creating, designing, implementing and merging of integral internal analytic and assessment processes to streamline and optimize field consumption and execution, employing and managing multiple software system platforms and the use of technology to access these systems, being the system administrator for various systems, leading user acceptance teams, and training of (AP) personnel in a fast passed and ever changing work environment. This position is also responsible for representing Asset Protection on tiered cross-functional initiatives.
Asset Protection is instrumental in protecting Publix assets with a focus on loss prevention case management and audit tools, retail data, including digital payment data, as well as shrink management tools such as inventories, exception reporting, databases, audits, and shrink assessments to mitigate shrink and eliminate loss. The Data and System Specialist reports to the Manager of Asset Protection Analytics and works with other asset protection analytic and investigation associates.

The responsibilities listed in this position analysis are not intended to be all-inclusive and additional responsibilities may be assigned as needed.

Understanding, gathering, and compiling data from multiple sources, devising logical constructs among those data, and utilizing big-data platforms such as Alteryx to compute and communicate the results to field and management
Representing Asset Protection on tiered projects to include teams consisting of external resources such as Technology, BAR, Strategy Support, and third-party vendors in addition to other business units, as well as all levels of approving leadership to effectively design, implement and use technology within the AP department
Developing training related to data, systems, business processes, and technology to all levels within AP
Providing leadership and support of investigative analytics for point of sale (POS), Pharmacy, and inventory investigations, money services

Required Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in an analytical discipline or at least 4 years of full-time relevant business experience
2 years’ experience with any combination of the following:
- Data analytics
- Project leadership
- System administration
Intermediate skill level:
- Case management and audit software systems, MicroStrategy (MSTR) (Shrink, POS, Inventory), Retail data (P&L, DSD), exception based statistical reporting systems, Pharmacy RBU systems, DB2, Fin-DSS, Teradata, money services and credit card data, big-data solutions such as Alteryx
- Database and analysis query tools to include SQL, VBA, MicroStrategy, and/or SAP_BI
- System user acceptance testing (UAT), including the development of system test scripts, leading UAT teams and analyzing results using various software/data packages
Advanced skill level in Microsoft Access and Excel
Able to travel overnight, work extended hours, and/or weekends as needed

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in an analytical discipline
3-5 years’ experience with any combination of the following:
- Data analytics
- Project leadership
- System administration

System administration power user of Access, Excel, Word
Advanced skill level in Microsoft Word, and PowerPoint
Loss Prevention Qualified (LPQ) certification
Expert skill level:
- Case management and audit software systems
- Database and analysis query tools
- Retail and corporate financial and account systems
- Microsoft Access and Excel
- System user acceptance testing (UAT)

Benefits

Employee stock ownership plan that contributes Publix stock to associates each year at no cost
An opportunity to purchase additional shares of our privately-held stock
401(k) retirement savings plan
Group health, dental and vision plans
Paid Time Off
Paid Parental Leave
Short- and long-term disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Free hot lunches (buffet-style) at facilities with a cafeteria
Visit our website to see all of our benefits: Benefits – Jobs (publix.com)

Year End Bonus

As a year-end bonus to associates, Publix issues one month’s extra pay (pro-rated in the first year) each year if associate remains employed through issue date of the bonus check that year. This is calculated as a 13th month of pay in the Potential Annual Pay with Bonus line above.

Additional Information

Your application may have additional steps that you will need to complete in order to remain eligible for consideration. Please be sure to monitor your email, including your spam folder, on a daily basis for critical, time-sensitive emails that could require action within 24-48 hours.
Please do not use your Publix email address when applying. Once your application has been successfully submitted you will receive a confirmation email.

**Please note that Publix will not sponsor any hire for this position for a visa or permanent residence.

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