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This is a hybrid role, requiring onsite collaboration at Columbia Sportswear's headquarters in Portland, Oregon Tuesday - Thursday of each week.
ABOUT THE POSITION
As a Quantitative Analyst on the Consumer Insights & Strategy team at Columbia, you develop and help implement research that provides foundational learning about the consumer to inform marketing, product strategy and development, innovation, as well as measure brand awareness for GTM (go-to-market) strategy and campaigns.
HOWYOU'LLMAKE ADIFFERENCE
Launch and manage multiple discrete research projects concurrently for CSC (Columbia Sportswear Company) portfolio of brands alongside partners in marketing, merchandising, innovation, product, and brand as part of the seasonal go to market process, as well as for strategic planning.
Quickly and accurately analyze, understand, and visualize data to derive meaningful insights that support partner function strategic priorities, using a variety of analysis and visualization tools (Excel, Power BI, R, Python, Qualtrics, PPT, etc.)
Communicate professionally and with clarity in a way that drives awareness and understanding of the outdoor consumer
Understand and use technical platforms for data collection (Qualtrics,Dscout, First Insight, etc.) and employ various research methodologies and designs across those platforms
Help influence peers across the organization to highlight the consumer in decisions related to product, marketplace, audience, marketing tactics, and go to market
YOU ARE
Always thinking about the consumer andcanlink functional questions to appropriate methodologies to drive insights and strategy
Enterprising and curious, solving problems with whatever tools are available
Able to translate complex ideas into simple and intuitive visuals and communications
Passionate about data and research methodologies and actively seek to develop expertise in these practices
Flexible and can comfortably work with a degree of ambiguity
YOU HAVE
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field, such as Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, Quantitative Psychology, etc.
Experience in research; including hypothesis generation, survey design, data preparation, analysis, visualization, and synthesis.
Educational experience or a deep interest in consumer psychology and behavioral science
2+ years of professional experience, preferably in a consulting, strategy, or similar role with exposure to varying industries, functions, and business problems
Intrinsic motivation to understand the outdoor consumer and how to deliver the best possible brand experience
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This job description is not meant to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities, but constitutes a general definition of the position's scope and function in the company.
Columbia Sportswear is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. The Know Your Rights poster is available here: https://www.eeoc.gov/poster The pay transparency policy is available here: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/OFCCP/pdf/pay-transp_%20English_formattedESQA508c.pdf Columbia Sportswear is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please notify your recruiter.At Columbia Sportswear Company, we're proud to offer regular full-time employees a benefits package that includes a variety of services and products to help make your life and work more rewarding. Our benefit programs contribute to overall employee well-being by aligning those programs with the fundamental elements of well-being: physical, social/emotional, financial, career and community. Benefits that can protect your family's financial future and help you save money through our 401k plan plus a generous company match. Columbia offers medical, dental, vision, life Insurance, disability, flexible spending accounts, health savings account, and an assortment of voluntary benefit offerings (accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity, and legal services). In addition, Columbia offers EAP + which is free and confidential 24/7/365 counseling services. We have extensive wellness benefits, employee discounts and a generous time off program available.At Columbia Sportswear Company (CSC), we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. CSC believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.