I have a new job opening at our headquarters in Sandpoint, Idaho. I lead a
group of statisticians and geographers in all sorts of initiatives. For the
right person, this will be a fun job. Please let me know if you have any
questions or comments.
Carl Brenner
Manager, Statistics and Geography
Coldwater Creek
Title: Senior GIS Analyst Research and Development
Position Statement:
Were growing fast and we need your help! Coldwater Creek, recognized by
BusinessWeek as one of the top 100 Hot Growth companies, is rapidly adding
stores nationwide. We need your creativity, knowledge, and geographic
passion to provide proactive business intelligence to guide store location
decisions and to provide geographic support throughout the company.
If you are driven to weave disparate data into insightful spatial analysis,
then this is the job for you. Your primary responsibility is to provide the
vision of the geographic data warehouse from which we generate our
innovative, actionable, and intuitive geographic support. Your primary
objective is to go beyond basic maps and reports to deliver comprehensive,
clever, and clear business intelligence to guide optimal decisions from
store locations to targeted marketing campaigns.
Your opportunities are endless. Youll be directly involved with our
expansion and execution strategies with regular contact with executives.
Your strengths, abilities, and spatial analysis experience will drive our
geographic innovation. Help us continue our hot growth!
Job Responsibilities:
* Provide the vision and execution leadership to evolve our unique, ½
terabyte geographic data warehouse which combines customer sales, customer
activities, demographics, geographic constructs, and automation. Develop an
appropriate database architecture to balance software needs, vendor supplied
data, self-generated data, and data from our transaction data warehouse.
* Assume a lead role in matching spatial analysis solutions - including
collecting data, ETL techniques, developing appropriate geographic
constructs, conducting spatial analysis, and delivering results - to complex
business problems throughout the company, but mainly focused on store
location decisions and targeted marketing campaigns.
* Develop automated geographic routines and processes to efficiently support
spatial analysis in a production environment utilizing SQL Server, DTS,
MapInfo, MapBasic, and SpatialWare.
* Provide business intelligence leadership to assist in non-geographic
analysis and processes.
* Integrate throughout the company, particularly with the Real Estate and
Marketing departments, to provide actionable business intelligence
* Integrate with statisticians to infuse geographic thought into statistical
processes.
* Proactively utilize new tools, new technologies, new ideas, and new
methods to provide outstanding innovations, creative solutions to unexpected
issues, and building scalable solutions.
Skill Requirements:
* Bachelors degree in Geography, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science,
or related field of study is required. Masters degree preferred.
* Desire to constantly improve existing processes via technical and
analytical innovation
* 5 years experience in automating GIS in a production environment (MapInfo
and MapBasic preferred)
* 3 years experience with ETL tools and non-geographic analysis techniques
(SQL Server/DTS preferred)
* 3 years experience with a spatially enabled database (SpatialWare
preferred)
* 3 years experience in utilizing transaction based data warehouses (retail
experience preferred)
* 3 years experience in web development and web programming (ASP and .Net
preferred)
* Excellent communication and presentation skills.
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