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This position is remote/work from home. You need to reside (in, near, within): Austin, TX; or the Southwest region; or Central Time Zone

Cox Automotive is hiring a Senior Data Analyst to join our successful Inventory Management Solutions (IMS) team.  

IMS Vison 

The IMS product teams help dealers reach true and sustained profitability in their used and new vehicle retail and wholesale business by means of market-driven insights and investment centric inventory management software   

Initiatives/products that drive our vision are as follows: 

Inventory Management Software: Software that enables the end-end process from sourcing to selling a dealers vehicle inventory   

Market Data: A comprehensive and accurate compilation of the used vehicle market information   

Insights: Actionable insights that help drive dealer profitability   

The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for ingesting, mining, and transforming data.  They also build and validate metrics, monitor data quality, analyze various forms of data (e.g. raw data, base data, 3rd party data, metrics), provide reports and interpret results. The Data Analyst will work with stakeholders to provide insights into the data for new product offerings and trends in the market related to the automotive domain.  

Information Analysis

Performs data analysis and validation.

Translates data into meaningful insights.

Develops reports and data visualizations to present insights in the most effective way to enable decision making.

Monitors and analyzes key metrics, and executes recurring analyses and reporting.

Mines and interprets data, monitors, and analyzes key metrics and interprets performance and provides insight into the data and metrics generated.

Handles data preparation and data analysis portions of various projects.

Writes, maintains and/or updates queries to develop analyses in response to queries from internal customers.

Information Management

Coordinates data feeds and updates and sources additional data required for analysis.

Determines the value of new internal and external data sources, merges disparate data sets, ingests data, derives metrics, and transforms the data into usable information.

Assists development teams in creating and maintaining data reporting models.

Assists in the development and implementation of data monitoring and measurement systems.

Develops monitoring mechanisms for quality and data management purposes.

Builds and validates new derived metrics, models, and associated business rules.

Key Responsibilities

Designs and develops ETL processes to feed data stores from disparate data sources.

Monitors ETL applications for performance and improvement opportunities.

Develops and documents the systems, processes and logic required to expose the existing data sets in the warehouse to end users for reporting and analysis purposes.

Delivers quality data integration projects.

Designs and develops BI/Analytics views for stakeholders.

Qualifications:

Working experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis

Working experience working with Relational Databases (i.e., Oracle) and Snowflake

Working experience working with reporting tools (i.e., Tableau)

Working experience working with large scale disparate datasets

Working experience presenting data to leadership for decision making

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent combination of industry related professional experience and education

Knowledge of machine learning libraries (algorithms)

5 – 6 years of working experience

Who We Are

About Cox Automotive

There’s nothing ordinary about Cox Automotive. We are people of every background driven by our passion for mobility, innovation, client success and community outreach. We make buying, selling and owning (or simply using) cars easier for everyone. Touching more than 40,000 clients across five continents, we bring together the best brands and the best teams to propel the automotive industry forward. Some of those team members work for our iconic consumer brands like Autotrader and Kelley Blue Book, while others are creating the future of automotive at industry-facing brands like Dealer.com, Manheim and vAuto.

About Cox 

We are the Cox family of businesses. We’ve been making our mark since 1898 by building and evolving world-class businesses, staying true to our values, and encouraging top talent to always look for growth and impact while building a career with us.  Our primary divisions – Cox Communications and Cox Automotive – are driving a new wave of innovation, powering smart cities with powerhouse broadband communications and pioneering greener, more progressive transportation alternatives for individuals and fleet operators.  We’re also expanding into new spaces like cleantech and healthcare to rev up our momentum toward building a better future for the next generation.  We’re looking for the talent today who will be our leaders tomorrow. Sound intriguing? Learn more about where we are today, where we hope you’ll be going with us, and the common purpose that unites us at coxenterprises.com.

Benefits of working at Cox may include health care insurance (medical, dental, vision), retirement planning (401(k)), and paid days off (sick leave, parental leave, flexible vacation/wellness days, and/or PTO).  For more details on what benefits you may be offered, visit our benefits page.

Cox is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer – All qualified applicants/employees will receive consideration for employment without regard to that individual’s age, race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.  Cox provides reasonable accommodations when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with disability, unless such accommodations would cause an undue hardship.  

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