SET Sr Analyst, Store Evolution

Overview

7-Eleven has been the well-established industry leader since 1927, almost a full century in the convenience business. Our brand is iconic; operating 65,000 stores in 18 countries and serving close to 50 million customers a day. However, the pace of change in customer buying behavior is accelerating faster now than ever before, and to ensure that 7-Eleven continues to win in the marketplace, we must better serve our current customer needs and attract new customers.

To that end, we have formed the Store Evolution Team. The Store Evolution Team is tasked with fundamentally redesigning the customer experience inside of our stores. It will operate using a rapid test, learn and iterate process in the areas of store design and new platform development, and by making our stores more convenient, relevant, inviting and digitally integrated.

This team will have high visibility throughout the organization and is looking for a hard charging individual with a "can do" entrepreneurial spirit, who intrinsically challenges the status quo, and who acts with urgency.

Responsibilities

This role is responsible for entrepreneurial finance work that involves building business cases, pro-forma financials, strategic analysis and benchmarking.

• Building business models to track performance of prototype stores – including financial and operational performance as well as consumer satisfaction metrics
• Analyzing and summarizing economic models for various new platforms. This includes understanding how introduction of new platforms will change the labor model and the unit economics at the store
• Ideation and collaboration with the rest of the team. The Sr. Analyst will need to have an informed point of view and be ready to provide recommendations and to contribute to ideation and execution of the prototype stores
• Managing up-front benchmarking efforts to understand construction spend for both our own internal stores as well as our competitors; tracking spend of all materials and construction costs for prototype stores
• Building a pro-forma P&L for our test stores, estimating labor model and establishing key performance indicators
• Ensuring appropriate return of invested capital and efficient use of assets through forecasting ROIC / ROA for all investments and verifying the performance over time

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelors/4 Yr Degree/MBA preferred
• Experience: 4+ years, Consulting, Financial Modelling, Development
• Self-starter who excels in ambiguous and challenging problems
• Excellent data analysis skills & ability to take large amounts of data, interpret and summarize
• Willingness to challenge long-held beliefs in order to find a better solution
• Strong background in financial analytics, including P&L and ROI analysis
• Highly organized and attention to detail
• Strong executive presence; exceptional communicator; ability to synthesize disparate data and summarize clearly
• Internal Posting Dates: 10/13 - 10/26