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Insights Analyst roles are strong OPT fits because the core work, turning data into business decisions, maps cleanly to quantitative and business degree fields that USCIS recognizes for specialty occupation classification. Most positions fall under STEM OPT, giving you up to 36 months of work authorization without H-1B visa sponsorship.
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Circana is a leading provider of technology, AI, and data solutions for consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and retailers. Our predictive analytics and Liquid Data® platform help clients measure market share, uncover consumer behavior, and drive growth—powered by six decades of expertise and an expansive, high-quality data set.
At Circana, we are fueled by our passion for continuous learning and growth, we seek and share feedback freely, and we celebrate victories both big and small in an environment that is flexible and accommodating to our work and personal lives. We’re a global company dedicated to fostering inclusivity and belonging. We value and celebrate the unique experiences, cultures, and viewpoints that each individual brings. By embracing a wide range of backgrounds, skills, expertise, and beyond, we create a stronger, more innovative environment for our employees, clients, and communities. With us, you can always bring your full self to work. Join our inclusive, committed team to be a challenger, own outcomes, and stay curious together. Circana is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place To Work®. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Circana.
Our Critical Sales Skills
At the heart of our commercial success is a team of professionals who combine strategic insight, customer-centricity, and executional excellence. These skills represent the core capabilities required to drive value for our clients and sustainable growth for our business.
- Effectively Presents Solutions: Delivers tailored, compelling solutions that align with customer needs and drive action.
- Knows the Buying Influences: Identifies key decision-makers and understands their motivations and influence.
- Manages Buyer Indifference: Recognizes and explores customer hesitation to uncover new needs or opportunities.
- Understands Customer Needs: Operates as a recognized expert to articulate customer needs in the customer's business language and business context.
- Being Resilient: Bounces back from setbacks with composure and positivity; helps others stay productive during tough times.
- Manages Ambiguity: Stays focused and calm in uncertain situations; guides others through change.
What will you be doing?
You will support the retail account by delivering actionable insights that help the client understand their performance relative to the market and key competitors. Leveraging a variety of Circana tools and data sources, you will analyze competitive dynamics, shopper behavior, and macroeconomic trends to uncover opportunities and risks. You will transform complex data into compelling, insights-driven stories that inform business decisions, strengthen client relationships, and demonstrate the value of Circana's solutions. Additionally, you will help socialize and promote relevant Circana capabilities, ensuring the client fully utilizes available tools and resources to drive growth and performance.
Job Responsibilities
- Deliver Insight-Led Solutions: Translate complex data into actionable insights that help clients make informed decisions and achieve measurable outcomes.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with internal teams (e.g., Client Insights, Product, and Analytics) to deliver integrated solutions and ensure client success.
- Maintain Industry Expertise: Stay current on trends in retail to position Circana as a thought leader and trusted advisor.
- Build Strategic Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across client organizations, including decision-makers and influencers.
- Utilize Sales Tools and Platforms: Leverage Circana’s proprietary platforms (e.g., Unify+, Liquid Data, Intelligence Suite) to support client engagements and solution delivery.
- Champion Client Success: Ensure client satisfaction by proactively addressing challenges, identifying growth opportunities, and delivering consistent value.
- Support Innovation and Feedback: Provide market feedback to internal teams to help refine offerings and contribute to product development.
- Advanced Analytic Skills: Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and deliver fact-based analyses, with a focus on consumer solutions, providing clients with clear, actionable insights to inform strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 3-5 years of experience in syndicated data analysis, category management, consumer insights, shopper analytics, or related fields.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications required.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and translate findings into actionable business recommendations and client-facing insights.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Understanding of retail, category, shopper, and competitive business challenges.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated creativity in identifying opportunities and developing solutions to business challenges.
- Experience with Circana, NielsenIQ, or other syndicated data platforms preferred.
Circana Behaviors
As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:
- Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
- Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
- Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
- Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
- Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
- Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
- Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.
Location
This position must be located in the following area: Hybrid, Boise, Idaho. Must be on-site with the client a couple days per week.
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The salary range for this role is $80,000.00 to $90,000.00 USD.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission.
You can apply for this role through the Circana careers website or Intranet site for internal candidates. This role is subject to AI-assisted screening. Circana uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess resumes for alignment with job requirements by helping locate details in resumes that relate to the job description.
This position is expected to remain open for approximately 30 days and may close earlier if sufficient qualified candidates are identified.
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Circana is a leading provider of technology, AI, and data solutions for consumer packaged goods companies, manufacturers, and retailers. Our predictive analytics and Liquid Data® platform help clients measure market share, uncover consumer behavior, and drive growth—powered by six decades of expertise and an expansive, high-quality data set.
At Circana, we are fueled by our passion for continuous learning and growth, we seek and share feedback freely, and we celebrate victories both big and small in an environment that is flexible and accommodating to our work and personal lives. We’re a global company dedicated to fostering inclusivity and belonging. We value and celebrate the unique experiences, cultures, and viewpoints that each individual brings. By embracing a wide range of backgrounds, skills, expertise, and beyond, we create a stronger, more innovative environment for our employees, clients, and communities. With us, you can always bring your full self to work. Join our inclusive, committed team to be a challenger, own outcomes, and stay curious together. Circana is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place To Work®. This prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at Circana.
Our Critical Sales Skills
At the heart of our commercial success is a team of professionals who combine strategic insight, customer-centricity, and executional excellence. These skills represent the core capabilities required to drive value for our clients and sustainable growth for our business.
- Effectively Presents Solutions: Delivers tailored, compelling solutions that align with customer needs and drive action.
- Knows the Buying Influences: Identifies key decision-makers and understands their motivations and influence.
- Manages Buyer Indifference: Recognizes and explores customer hesitation to uncover new needs or opportunities.
- Understands Customer Needs: Operates as a recognized expert to articulate customer needs in the customer's business language and business context.
- Being Resilient: Bounces back from setbacks with composure and positivity; helps others stay productive during tough times.
- Manages Ambiguity: Stays focused and calm in uncertain situations; guides others through change.
What will you be doing?
You will support the retail account by delivering actionable insights that help the client understand their performance relative to the market and key competitors. Leveraging a variety of Circana tools and data sources, you will analyze competitive dynamics, shopper behavior, and macroeconomic trends to uncover opportunities and risks. You will transform complex data into compelling, insights-driven stories that inform business decisions, strengthen client relationships, and demonstrate the value of Circana's solutions. Additionally, you will help socialize and promote relevant Circana capabilities, ensuring the client fully utilizes available tools and resources to drive growth and performance.
Job Responsibilities
- Deliver Insight-Led Solutions: Translate complex data into actionable insights that help clients make informed decisions and achieve measurable outcomes.
- Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner with internal teams (e.g., Client Insights, Product, and Analytics) to deliver integrated solutions and ensure client success.
- Maintain Industry Expertise: Stay current on trends in retail to position Circana as a thought leader and trusted advisor.
- Build Strategic Relationships: Develop and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across client organizations, including decision-makers and influencers.
- Utilize Sales Tools and Platforms: Leverage Circana’s proprietary platforms (e.g., Unify+, Liquid Data, Intelligence Suite) to support client engagements and solution delivery.
- Champion Client Success: Ensure client satisfaction by proactively addressing challenges, identifying growth opportunities, and delivering consistent value.
- Support Innovation and Feedback: Provide market feedback to internal teams to help refine offerings and contribute to product development.
- Advanced Analytic Skills: Demonstrated ability to conceive, manage, and deliver fact-based analyses, with a focus on consumer solutions, providing clients with clear, actionable insights to inform strategy.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree required.
- 3-5 years of experience in syndicated data analysis, category management, consumer insights, shopper analytics, or related fields.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and other Microsoft Office applications required.
- Demonstrated ability to analyze data and translate findings into actionable business recommendations and client-facing insights.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills.
- Understanding of retail, category, shopper, and competitive business challenges.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and engage stakeholders.
- Proven ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced environment.
- Demonstrated creativity in identifying opportunities and developing solutions to business challenges.
- Experience with Circana, NielsenIQ, or other syndicated data platforms preferred.
Circana Behaviors
As well as the technical skills, experience and attributes that are required for the role, our shared behaviors sit at the core of our organization. Therefore, we always look for people who can continuously champion these behaviors throughout the business within their day-to-day role:
- Stay Curious: Being hungry to learn and grow, always asking the big questions.
- Seek Clarity: Embracing complexity to create clarity and inspire action.
- Own the Outcome: Being accountable for decisions and taking ownership of our choices.
- Center on the Client: Relentlessly adding value for our customers.
- Be a Challenger: Never complacent, always striving for continuous improvement.
- Champion Inclusivity: Fostering trust in relationships engaging with empathy, respect, and integrity.
- Commit to each other: Contributing to making Circana a great place to work for everyone.
Location
This position must be located in the following area: Hybrid, Boise, Idaho. Must be on-site with the client a couple days per week.
The below range reflects the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range. This range may be modified in the future. An employee’s position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, any collective bargaining agreements, and business or organizational needs. The salary range for this role is $80,000.00 to $90,000.00 USD.
We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance and 401(k) to eligible employees.
An offer of employment may be conditional upon successful completion of a background check in accordance with local legislation and our candidate privacy notice. Your current employer will not be contacted without your permission.
You can apply for this role through the Circana careers website or Intranet site for internal candidates. This role is subject to AI-assisted screening. Circana uses artificial intelligence (AI) to assess resumes for alignment with job requirements by helping locate details in resumes that relate to the job description.
This position is expected to remain open for approximately 30 days and may close earlier if sufficient qualified candidates are identified.
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Lead with your analytical toolkit
Employers hiring Insights Analysts want to see proficiency in SQL, Python, R, or Tableau before they consider visa logistics. A strong technical portfolio removes the biggest hiring hesitation and shifts the conversation toward your value, not your status.
Target companies with data maturity
Large consumer brands, fintech firms, and tech platforms run dedicated insights functions and sponsor work visas routinely. Smaller companies often lack the infrastructure to manage OPT paperwork, so focus your search on organizations with established HR and legal teams.
Clarify your STEM OPT eligibility upfront
If your degree is in statistics, data science, economics, or a related STEM field, you qualify for 24-month STEM OPT extension. Confirming this early reassures employers they have a realistic hiring window before needing to pursue H-1B visa sponsorship on your behalf.
Frame your OPT timeline around project cycles
Insights roles operate on quarterly business cycles. When discussing your timeline, connect your OPT end date to what you can realistically deliver, showing employers you're thinking about contribution, not just authorization. It reframes the conversation from risk to return on investment.
Build a portfolio of business impact, not just analysis
Hiring managers in insights want evidence that your analysis changed a decision, not just that you ran queries. Document one or two projects where your findings influenced strategy, budget, or product direction. Quantified outcomes make your application stand out significantly.
Apply early to allow time for OPT paperwork coordination
DSOs typically need three to four weeks to issue an updated I-20 for a new employer. Starting your job search 60 to 90 days before your intended start date ensures you can begin work on time without gaps in authorization or offer complications.
Insights Analyst OPT: Frequently Asked Questions
Do Insights Analyst roles qualify for STEM OPT extension?
Most do, but it depends on your degree. If your field of study is classified under a STEM-designated CIP code, such as statistics, data science, computer science, or economics, and your Insights Analyst role uses those skills directly, you qualify for the 24-month STEM OPT extension. Your DSO can confirm your CIP code eligibility before you apply.
How do I find Insights Analyst roles open to OPT students?
Migrate Mate lists Insights Analyst jobs from employers willing to work with F-1 OPT students, so you're not wasting applications on roles that will screen you out at the authorization question. Filtering by OPT-friendly employers saves significant time during a period when your work authorization clock is already running.
Will an employer need to do anything special to hire me on OPT?
For standard OPT, your employer does not file any government petition. You simply provide your EAD card and show your authorized start and end dates. For STEM OPT extension, your employer must be enrolled in E-Verify and sign a formal training plan. Most established companies with existing data or analytics teams already meet both requirements.
Is an Insights Analyst role considered a specialty occupation for future H-1B sponsorship?
It generally qualifies. The role requires applying theoretical and practical knowledge in a specific field, typically statistics, business analytics, or data science, which aligns with the specialty occupation definition USCIS uses. Roles where a specific bachelor's degree is listed as required rather than preferred strengthen the H-1B petition significantly when your employer eventually files.
What happens to my OPT if I switch from one Insights Analyst role to another?
You can change employers on OPT without filing anything new, but you must report the change to your DSO within 10 days so it reflects accurately in SEVIS. If you're on STEM OPT extension, your new employer also needs to be E-Verify enrolled and sign a new I-983 training plan before your start date at that company.