About You As the Manager of Marketing Analytics, you will play a pivotal role in unlocking and optimizing guest and transactional data to fuel business growth. Partnering closely with Marketing, Digital, IT, and cross-functional leaders, you will work to understand business objectives, enhance insights into guest behavior, and evaluate marketing channel effectiveness. Your ability to transform data into actionable recommendations will directly drive our go-to-market strategy and scale personalization across marketing channels. You will take a hands-on approach, balancing strategic leadership with direct analytical execution.
In collaboration with IT and the Senior Manager of Guest Insights & Research, you will develop insights from the loyalty customer database, mining data to produce impactful reports and recommendations. You will lead the creation of guest segmentation strategies through cluster analyses and predictive modeling, ensuring these insights inform a comprehensive marketing approach that boosts engagement, loyalty, and customer lifetime value. Additionally, you will spearhead the development of reporting and dashboarding tools, enabling automated self-service reporting, executive presentations, and weekly discussions to continuously optimize business performance.
About Noodles
At Noodles & Company, we believe great food can spark meaningful connections. That’s why we’re on a mission to reintroduce the world to noodles—not just as a meal, but as an experience worth craving. As we evolve our brand to meet the modern guest, we’re focused on creating moments that surprise, delight, and shift perceptions of what fast-casual can be.
Every bowl we serve is rooted in global flavors, fresh ingredients, and intentional hospitality that makes guests feel seen and valued. Our values—We Care, We Show Pride, We Are Passionate, and We Love Life—guide how we show up for our guests, our team members, and each other.
Benefits Careers at Noodles are served with a side of:
Pay range: $90,000-$110,000 annual salary
Eligible for annual performance bonus up to 15%
Flexible paid time off
Medical, dental, and vision insurance
401(k) and stock purchase discounts
Paid maternity and paternity leaves, adoption, and surrogacy benefits
Noodles Resource Groups – inclusive communities that foster belonging, build connections, and support your personal and professional growth
Scholarship opportunities through Noodles Foundation
Develop and maintain a thorough understanding of Noodles & Company's data sources, including operational databases and data flows with external partners.
Establish and manage KPIs and metrics for daily, weekly, and monthly performance management.
Translate business objectives into testable hypotheses to improve decision-making.
Oversee tests conducted on the Mastercard Test & Learn platform and translating results into actionable business recommendations
Collaborate with IT to enhance and maintain the Loyalty guest database, utilizing customer data to deliver insightful and actionable recommendations.
Work in partnership with marketing, digital, and research teams to design, influence, execute, measure, and improve marketing initiatives across various channels.
Apply scientific methods to determine the causal relationships between marketing strategies and consumer behavior & sentiment to enhance business performance.
Develops new measurement frameworks, reporting structures, and operational processes to support a growing Marketing Analytics function
Create presentations, charts, and executive summaries that effectively communicate findings to marketing leads, cross-functional partners, and executives.
Develop compelling narratives that connect data analysis with business challenges.
In partnership with IT, develop automated dashboarding tools to provide reliable self-service insights on guest behavior and channel performance.
Analyze A/B or Multivariate Tests to provide measurable insights on test data.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to develop a unified and actionable guest segmentation strategy based on a comprehensive view of guest data.
What You Bring to the Team
Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Marketing, Finance, Mathematics, IT, or related fields is preferred, or equivalent practical experience in analytics.
5+ years of experience working with marketing database solutions with focus on multi-channel marketing and one-to-one communication (CRM) approaches preferred.
5+ years of experience working with customer and/or transactional data and relational databases.
Previous restaurant experience preferred.
Ability to understand business objectives and requirements, organize and interpret results, and deliver insights with recommendations in a marketing environment.
Strong experience in using query and analysis tools such as Power BI, SQL, Python, and R.
Thrives in analytical deep dives, uncovering trends and opportunities that shape business direction.
Skilled in utilizing predictive analytics tools like Mastercard Test & Learn, or adept in applying statistical methods for controlled testing to optimize business strategies.
Familiarity with marketing measurement methodologies like MMM, MTA, and lift testing.
A professional demeanor with strong communication and presentation skills, capable of engaging effectively with diverse audiences.
Operates independently, proactively identifying gaps, opportunities, and new analytical approaches
Strong project management skills
This is an individual contributor role that requires comfort working independently and driving analysis from strategy through execution.
This is a hybrid role with 2-3 days per week in our Support Office in Broomfield, Colorado. We’re seeking candidates who either reside locally or are open to relocating.
Employment Sponsorship: Please note that we do not sponsor employment visas, including for this position.
Noodles is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Military Friendly workplace. We encourage Veterans and their spouses to apply. We are proud to be recognized on Forbes’ Best Employers for Diversity and Forbes' Best Employers for Women lists and are committed to creating a culture of belonging where Noodlers can bring their full self to work.
Application Deadline: Recruiting timelines vary by role, but all positions at Noodles & Company remain open for applications for at least 3 days from the posting date. This role is currently open and accepting applications.
