The Business Analyst leverages data, technology, and cross-functional collaboration to identify opportunities for improvement, support decision-making, and drive measurable business and sales performance outcomes. This role partners with leadership and functional teams to deliver actionable insights, improve processes, and support key strategic projects in areas such as pricing, forecasting, and margin optimization.
Essential Functions & Responsibilities:
- Develop a strong understanding of company systems, including Aspen Canopy ERP, databases, and reporting tools; ensure data integrity and accessibility.
- Partner with leadership across sales, operations, and finance to understand objectives, define KPIs, and align analytics to business strategy.
- Transform raw data into actionable insights that improve decision-making, performance, and efficiency.
- Provide analytical support for initiatives including:
- Pricing and margin optimization – Analyze product, customer, and market trends to recommend strategies for profitability.
- Demand forecasting and sales analytics – Build models to guide order planning, resource allocation, and performance targets.
- Inventory and working capital optimization – Identify opportunities to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
- Customer and contract analysis – Support negotiations with scenario modeling, performance tracking, and risk analysis.
- Design and maintain dashboards, reporting frameworks, and performance scorecards to support leadership visibility.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across multiple departments to balance priorities and deliver insights on time.
- Continuously evaluate new tools, methods, and technologies to enhance analytics and reporting capabilities.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree preferred (Business, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or related).
- Strong analytical and critical thinking skills; ability to distill complex data into clear insights.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, Power Query, modeling) and Microsoft Office Suite.
- Experience with Aspen Canopy ERP; ability to learn and optimize ERP workflows quickly.
- SQL or other database querying skills to pull and validate data directly.
- Experience with data visualization tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar).
- Knowledge of financial principles including P&L, margin, and forecasting.
- Strong communication and presentation skills, with the ability to explain findings to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Team player with strong collaboration skills across departments and locations.
- Ability to prioritize tasks, meet deadlines, and adapt quickly in a fast-paced environment.
Reports to: Director of Strategic Initiatives
Schedule: M-F
Location: Denver, CO
Work Environment
This job operates in an office and warehouse environment. The role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, copiers, filing cabinets and fax machines on a daily basis.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee frequently is required to sit or stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.
Seattle Fish Co. believes each employee makes a signification contribution to the company's success. The contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline the responsibilities but not limited to such responsibilities. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.
Benefits:
Seattle Fish offers a comprehensive benefit packaging including:
• Medical insurance
• Dental and vision insurance
• Company paid life insurance
• Company paid long-term and short-term disability
• 401k retirement plan
• Discount pricing on seafood, meat, and gourmet products
Our Commitment:
We believe every employee has the right to work in an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. Consistent with applicable laws, Seattle Fish Company makes all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship without regard to race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship, the presence of any physical or mental disability of someone otherwise qualified, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law. Discrimination and/or harassment based on any of those factors are inconsistent with our philosophy of doing business and will not be tolerated. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all aspects application procedures, hiring, advancement, transfers, reductions in force, discharge, compensation, training, or other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.
