Manager, Strategic Insights & Analytics

Salad and Go is a one-of-a-kind drive-thru concept on a mission to make fresh, nutritious food convenient and affordable for ALL. Recipes from our very own Michelin-star trained chef are prepared in our own central kitchens, delivered directly to our stores where our team members prepare made to order salads, wraps and breakfast burritos for our guests. Our food is offered at a price point that ensures accessibility: everyone deserves a delicious meal. Focused on a simple, convenient drive-thru only model, Salad and Go operates in more than 130 locations across Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma and Nevada and is expanding rapidly into new states. As part of our mission, Salad and Go puts special emphasis on community outreach and philanthropic initiatives and fosters a company culture that prioritizes the wellbeing of all our team members. Our one-of-a-kind model is fundamentally changing food systems and igniting a positive, life-changing movement toward better food for all.

Salad and Go is seeking a Manager, Strategic Insights & Analytics to help inform our most important decisions as we continue on our massive growth trajectory. Reporting to the Director, Strategic Insights & Analytics, this role will be instrumental in uncovering valuable learnings and delivering actionable recommendations, leveraging a wide variety of sources including internal first-party customer databases, syndicated/market research, custom studies, media intelligence, and more.

This is a hybrid in-office position based in the Dallas-Forth Worth metro area.

As a Manager, Strategic Insights & Analytics, you will:

• Be the leader of reporting insights and analytics from our first party guest database, translating data into actionable recommendations for cross-functional partners across the organization
• Own guest behavior analyses and reporting, both ongoing and ad hoc: query data, run analyses, build dashboards, develop insights
• Integrate multiple data sources to tell the stories of business performance, issues to address, and opportunities to tap into
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners across the business to generate meaningful hypotheses, uncover validated answers, and recommend courses of action
• Analyze and build dashboards for respondent level survey data
• Support culinary innovation planning with insights from specific Salad and Go guest behavior
• Support measurement of media performance to inform marketing mix optimization in collaboration with media agencies

Requirements

• Genuine curiosity & willingness to iterate in a fast-paced environment
• Strategic thinker with high business intuition, good collaboration, communication, and presentation skills
• Proven ability to gather, clean, analyze and interpret large and complex datasets
• Proficiency in Excel, SQL, & Tableau; other programming languages & applied experience with predictive modeling and forecasting is a plus
• Experience in an organization maintaining and analyzing direct-to-consumer customer data (e.g., restaurant, retail, financial services)
• 7+ years professional experience in insights, analytics, consulting, and/or data science

Benefits:

• Competitive pay + bonus potential
• Unlimited PTO and paid sick time
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• 401k matching
• Growth potential with a fast-growing company
• Complimentary Salad and Go food

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Salad and Go will provide reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship.

Salad and Go is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.