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[ Service ] E-Commerce Analytics Services

E-Commerce Analytics
Services — Know Exactly What Is Driving Revenue and What Is Wasting Budget

Expert e-commerce analytics — GA4 implementation, BigQuery, multi-touch attribution, cohort analysis & CRO dashboards. Shopify & WooCommerce. Free analytics audit.

£340K

budget reallocation opportunity identified

3x

higher LTV customers revealed by cohort analysis

78%

mobile conversion rate improvement

10+ yrs

e-commerce analytics expertise

[ 02 ]The gap

The stores that grow fastest are not the ones with the best products or the largest advertising budgets. They are the ones that can answer commercial questions about their business quickly, accurately, and confidently — and make marketing investment decisions based on evidence rather than instinct or platform self-reporting. E-commerce analytics infrastructure is what makes this possible.

At Clickmasters Digital Marketing (clickmastersdigitalmarketing.com), we design and implement e-commerce analytics systems for store owners across the USA, UK, UAE, and Pakistan — the unified, cross-channel measurement infrastructure that answers the specific commercial questions e-commerce businesses need answered to grow profitably.

[ 03 ]The problem

What Broken E-Commerce Analytics
Costs

The Attribution Black Hole

The average e-commerce buyer interacts with 6-8 marketing touchpoints before purchasing. They discover the brand through a TikTok video, search for it on Google, click a paid search ad, visit the product page, abandon checkout, receive an abandoned cart email, open the email on their phone, and complete the purchase. Seven distinct touchpoints across four channels — and last-click attribution gives 100% of the credit to the email. The Google Ads account reports zero value from the awareness campaign that prompted the initial TikTok search. Meta reports zero value from the video that introduced the brand. The email platform reports 100% of the revenue. Budget decisions made on this attribution produce the classic over-investment in last-click channels and under-investment in awareness — because the measurement system is systematically lying about which activity created the commercial outcome.

The Platform Overcounting Problem

Each advertising platform has its own attribution window and its own definition of a conversion. Google Ads counts conversions within 30 days of an ad click. Meta counts conversions within 28 days of an ad click or 1 day of a view. Each counts every qualifying conversion regardless of what other channels the buyer also interacted with. The result: the sum of conversions each platform reports typically exceeds your actual conversion count by 40-70%. You appear to be getting more return from advertising than you actually are — which makes budget decisions look better than they are until the mismatch between platform-reported performance and actual business performance becomes undeniable.

The Customer Profitability Blindspot

Most e-commerce businesses know their total revenue. They do not know which customers, acquired through which channels, from which geographic regions, purchasing which product categories, at which average order values and repurchase frequencies, are generating the most — and least — profitable revenue. Without customer-level profitability data, every acquisition and retention decision is made on aggregate metrics that obscure the dramatically different commercial values of different customer segments.

The Conversion Funnel Opacity Problem

Standard e-commerce analytics tells you how many sessions the site received and how many orders were placed. It does not tell you where in the funnel the abandonment is occurring — whether buyers are leaving at the product page before adding to cart, at the cart before initiating checkout, or at the checkout before completing purchase — at the specific traffic source and device type combinations where the abandonment rates are highest. Without funnel visibility, conversion rate optimisation is guesswork.

[ 04 ]What we build

Our services
— built to last.

[ GA4 Implementation · 01 ]

GA4 E-Commerce Implementation

GA4 is the measurement foundation for most e-commerce businesses — but an incomplete or incorrectly configured implementation produces measurements that are unreliable, misleading, and insufficient for the commercial decisions the business needs to make. We implement GA4 with the completeness and accuracy that reliable analytics requires.

Accurate GA4 E-Commerce Tracking

Google Analytics 4 is the measurement foundation for most e-commerce businesses — but a GA4 implementation that is incomplete, incorrectly configured, or missing key e-commerce events produces measurements that are unreliable, misleading, and insufficient for the commercial decisions the business needs to make. Common GA4 e-commerce implementation problems we encounter: product view events not firing on all product page types (collection pages, search result pages, recommended product widgets), add-to-cart events missing for non-standard add-to-cart interactions (quick-add buttons, bundle builders, subscription product selectors), checkout funnel steps incorrectly configured (missing initiate_checkout events, incorrect checkout step sequencing), and purchase events double-firing (the same transaction recorded twice, inflating revenue and conversion rate metrics). We implement GA4 e-commerce tracking with the completeness and accuracy that reliable analytics requires: the full e-commerce event set (view_item_list, view_item, add_to_cart, remove_from_cart, view_cart, begin_checkout, add_shipping_info, add_payment_info, purchase, refund), the custom parameters that capture the dimensions specific to each business (product category, variant, collection source, promotional context), and the event validation that confirms all events are firing correctly across the specific page types and user interaction patterns of each store.

Shopify GA4 Integration

Shopify's native Google & YouTube channel integration installs GA4 events — but with known limitations: the native integration does not capture all e-commerce events correctly for stores with custom themes, subscription products, or specific Shopify Plus checkout customisations. We implement GA4 for Shopify using the approach appropriate for each store's specific technical setup: the native channel integration where it produces reliable data, the Shopify Web Pixels API for stores requiring more granular event control, or a Google Tag Manager Server-Side implementation for stores where client-side tracking reliability is compromised.

Server-Side GA4 for Reliable Measurement

Client-side GA4 tracking — the standard JavaScript-based implementation — is subject to ad blocker blocking, browser privacy restrictions, and the performance overhead of tag loading on each page. Server-side GA4 implementation via Google Tag Manager Server-Side routes events through a first-party server before forwarding to GA4, bypassing the client-side restrictions that degrade measurement completeness. We implement server-side GA4 for stores where measurement accuracy is commercially critical — typically stores spending £10,000+ per month on advertising, where measurement gaps directly affect bidding algorithm performance.

[ Attribution · 02 ]

Multi-Touch Attribution

The first requirement for meaningful e-commerce attribution is a complete picture of the customer journey — all the touchpoints a buyer interacted with before purchasing, captured with consistent identity resolution across sessions and devices.

Building the Complete Customer Journey

The first requirement for meaningful e-commerce attribution is a complete picture of the customer journey — all the touchpoints a buyer interacted with before purchasing, captured with consistent identity resolution across sessions and devices. GA4's cross-device measurement (using Google Signals for signed-in Google users), the User ID implementation that connects anonymous sessions to identified customers after account login, and the first-party cookie configuration that extends the session continuity window are the foundational data quality requirements for multi-touch attribution. We implement the data collection infrastructure that multi-touch attribution requires: the complete event set that captures touchpoints across all marketing channels, the User ID implementation for e-commerce accounts with customer login, and the UTM parameter strategy that ensures all marketing traffic is correctly tagged with the campaign, source, and medium data that attribution models need.

GA4 Data-Driven Attribution

GA4's data-driven attribution model (DDA) — available to accounts with sufficient conversion volume — uses machine learning to distribute conversion credit across all touchpoints based on their observed contribution to conversion, rather than the fixed rules of last-click or first-click attribution. DDA is a significant improvement over rule-based attribution for the majority of e-commerce businesses that have sufficient data volume to power it. We configure GA4 attribution settings, verify DDA eligibility, and connect GA4 DDA results to Google Ads Smart Bidding — so that the campaign optimisation is informed by the same multi-touch attribution model that informs reporting.

[ Data Warehouse · 03 ]

E-Commerce Data Warehouse and BigQuery

Google BigQuery is the analytical back-end that enables the custom analysis that GA4's native interface cannot support: customer cohort analysis, lifetime value calculation, cross-channel attribution on raw event data, and the custom funnel analysis that segments abandonment by traffic source, device, and user segment.

BigQuery for E-Commerce

Google BigQuery — the cloud data warehouse that stores and processes the raw event data that GA4 collects — is the analytical back-end that enables the custom analysis that GA4's native interface cannot support: customer cohort analysis (comparing acquisition, conversion, and retention rates across cohorts acquired in different months), customer lifetime value calculation at the individual and segment level, cross-channel attribution modelling on the raw event data (rather than GA4's pre-aggregated summaries), and the custom funnel analysis that segments abandonment rates by traffic source, device type, and user segment. We implement BigQuery for e-commerce: the GA4 raw data export to BigQuery, the Shopify or WooCommerce order data export to BigQuery (connecting order-level data including product mix, margin, discount usage, and customer history to the GA4 event data), the ETL pipelines that import advertising spend data from Google Ads, Meta Ads, and other channels (enabling the blended ROAS and true CAC calculations that platform-silo reporting cannot produce), and the dbt transformation models that build the clean analytical tables the reporting layer queries.

Customer Lifetime Value and Cohort Analysis

The most commercially valuable e-commerce analysis — the insight that most directly informs where to invest in acquisition and retention — is customer lifetime value by acquisition cohort and channel. Which channels acquire customers who buy frequently and spend more over time? Which channels acquire one-time buyers who never return? The store that knows the answer to these questions can allocate acquisition budget toward the channels that generate the highest-LTV customers, not just the most customers. We build customer cohort analysis in BigQuery: the SQL models that track every customer cohort's cumulative revenue over time, the CLV projections that estimate expected future revenue from each cohort's historical behaviour pattern, and the acquisition channel CLV comparison that reveals which channels generate disproportionate long-term value versus short-term conversion volume.

[ Dashboards · 04 ]

E-Commerce Reporting Dashboards

We build unified e-commerce performance dashboards that give store owners and marketing teams a single, current view of commercial performance across all channels — without the manual export-and-reconcile process that most e-commerce businesses currently rely on.

Unified E-Commerce Performance Dashboard

We build unified e-commerce performance dashboards that give store owners and marketing teams a single, current view of commercial performance across all channels — without the manual export-and-reconcile process that most e-commerce businesses currently rely on. The unified dashboard connects GA4 (sessions, conversion rates, revenue by channel and page), Shopify or WooCommerce (orders, AOV, product performance, returns), advertising platforms (spend, ROAS by channel and campaign), and email platform (revenue by flow and campaign) into a single reporting environment updated daily. We build these dashboards in Looker Studio, Tableau, or Power BI depending on the client's technical environment and reporting requirements. For most Shopify and WooCommerce stores, Looker Studio provides the right combination of connectivity, visual capability, and accessibility for the marketing teams that will use it daily.

Marketing Performance Dashboard

The marketing performance dashboard focuses on acquisition: spend, revenue, and ROAS by channel; customer acquisition cost by channel; conversion rate by traffic source and campaign; and the blended CAC calculation that combines organic and paid acquisition costs to show the true average cost of acquiring a new customer. The marketing dashboard is designed for the weekly marketing review — the structured conversation between performance data and strategy that determines where next week's investment should be directed.

Customer Analytics Dashboard

The customer analytics dashboard focuses on retention and lifetime value: new vs returning customer revenue split, repeat purchase rate by acquisition cohort, average order value trends, product affinity patterns (which products are most commonly purchased together and in sequence), and the customer segmentation that identifies VIP customers, at-risk customers, and lapsed customers for targeted marketing interventions.

[ Funnel Analysis · 05 ]

Conversion Funnel Analysis and CRO Intelligence

The funnel analysis that produces actionable CRO intelligence is not the aggregate funnel — it is the segmented funnel that identifies where specific traffic sources, device types, or user segments experience disproportionate abandonment.

Funnel Visualisation by Segment

GA4's funnel exploration feature enables the visualisation of the e-commerce purchase funnel — the sequential steps from landing to purchase — with the ability to segment by traffic source, device type, landing page, and user segment. The funnel analysis that produces actionable CRO intelligence is not the aggregate funnel (which averages performance across all sessions) but the segmented funnel that identifies where specific traffic sources, device types, or user segments experience disproportionate abandonment. We configure and analyse e-commerce conversion funnels: the funnel configuration that reflects each store's specific checkout flow, the segment comparisons that identify the highest-opportunity funnel improvements (the traffic source that has a dramatically lower add-to-cart rate, the mobile device that abandons at checkout at twice the rate of desktop, the landing page that drives high sessions but low purchase completion), and the specific CRO recommendations that address each identified abandonment pattern.

Site Search and Product Performance Analysis

For stores with significant site search usage, site search analytics — which search queries generate sessions, what proportion of searches return zero results, and which search terms produce the highest purchase conversion rates — identify both merchandising opportunities (the products buyers are searching for that the store does not currently stock) and UX optimisation opportunities (the search queries producing zero results that should return relevant products). We implement site search analytics in GA4, connect search query data to purchase outcomes, and produce the specific merchandising and UX recommendations that the site search data supports.

[ Audit & Health Check · 06 ]

E-Commerce Analytics Audit and Health Check

Many e-commerce stores have GA4 implementations that appear functional but contain specific errors that produce measurements incorrect in commercially significant ways. We audit, identify, and remediate — then manage ongoing implementation health as the store evolves.

Analytics Audit for Existing Implementations

Many e-commerce stores have GA4 implementations that appear functional — GA4 is collecting data, reports are generating — but contain specific errors that produce measurements that are incorrect in commercially significant ways. Common audit findings: double-counting of purchase events producing inflated revenue metrics, checkout funnel steps missing from the implementation producing an inaccurate picture of where abandonment occurs, UTM parameters stripped by redirect chains producing (direct) attribution for traffic that was actually paid search, and the absence of conversion-value data in GA4 purchase events preventing GA4 from reporting accurate ROAS for Google Ads campaigns. We conduct e-commerce analytics audits: systematically testing every critical measurement point against the expected correct behaviour, identifying the specific discrepancies between what GA4 is recording and what is actually occurring, and producing a prioritised remediation plan for each identified issue ranked by its commercial impact on the accuracy of reporting and bidding decisions.

Ongoing Analytics Management

Analytics implementations deteriorate over time as the store evolves: new page types are added without the tracking implementation being updated, theme changes break event listeners, plugin updates interfere with existing tracking code, and GA4's own evolution introduces new measurement requirements. We provide ongoing analytics management: monthly implementation health checks, tracking maintenance as the store evolves, and the new analytics features that the business's growing analytical requirements demand.

[ 05 ]Client results

Client results
in practice.

[ Fashion E-Commerce · GA4 Audit ]

£340K

budget reallocation opportunity identified · £180K misattributed revenue discovered

Fashion e-commerce — GA4 audit reveals £180K in misattributed annual revenue and identifies £340K budget reallocation opportunity.

A fashion e-commerce brand was using GA4 in its default Shopify integration configuration. Monthly reporting showed that direct traffic was the top revenue channel (34% of attributed revenue), suggesting strong brand awareness. An attribution audit revealed that the "direct" attribution was largely UTM parameter stripping: traffic from email campaigns was arriving without UTM parameters (because the email links were redirecting through a URL shortener that stripped the query parameters), and GA4 was attributing this traffic — and its associated revenue — to "direct" rather than "email." Our analytics engagement: GA4 audit identifying the UTM stripping issue and 6 other tracking problems (double purchase event firing, missing checkout funnel steps, incorrect product variant tracking), technical remediation of all identified issues, and a retrospective attribution reanalysis using the corrected data to understand the actual channel revenue distribution. Result: The corrected attribution revealed that email was generating 28% of revenue (versus the 4% that GA4 had been reporting) and direct traffic was generating 8% (versus the 34% it appeared to be generating). Google Ads campaigns had been allocated 38% of the marketing budget partly because direct/brand traffic appeared weak — the reanalysis revealed they were actually generating a 4.2x ROAS rather than the 7.8x the misattributed reporting had suggested. Budget reallocation based on the corrected attribution produced an estimated £340,000 in annual efficiency improvement from the same budget. The misattributed £180K in email revenue visibility was described by the CMO as "discovering an entire marketing channel we thought wasn't working."

[ Beauty Brand · Cohort Analysis ]

3x

higher LTV from Facebook vs Google Shopping · 22% blended LTV improvement

Shopify beauty brand — cohort analysis reveals Facebook acquires 3x higher-LTV customers than Google Shopping.

A beauty brand was allocating its acquisition budget 65% to Google Shopping and 35% to Facebook Ads, based on Google Shopping's superior last-click ROAS (6.8x versus Facebook's 3.2x). BigQuery cohort analysis — tracking the 12-month revenue from customers acquired in the same month through each channel — revealed that customers acquired through Facebook had a 12-month LTV of £124, compared to £42 for customers acquired through Google Shopping. The ROAS difference reflected the different buying intent of each channel's acquisition (Google Shopping acquires high-intent buyers who convert quickly but often make a single purchase; Facebook acquires buyers who are less certain at first conversion but who, once converted, become frequent repeat purchasers). Our analytics engagement: BigQuery implementation connecting Shopify order data to GA4 acquisition channel data, customer cohort analysis by acquisition channel and month, 12-month CLV calculation by channel, and the revised attribution framework that weighted channel performance by CLV-adjusted revenue rather than last-click transaction value. Result: Budget reallocation to 40% Google Shopping / 60% Facebook, based on the CLV-adjusted channel analysis, produced a 22% improvement in blended 12-month customer LTV from the same total acquisition budget. Facebook's higher-LTV acquisition justified its lower initial ROAS — a measurement story that last-click attribution could never have told. The brand now reports channel performance on a CLV-adjusted basis as standard, making every subsequent acquisition budget decision more commercially accurate.

[ Home Goods · Funnel Analysis ]

78%

mobile conversion rate improvement · £28K additional monthly mobile revenue

WooCommerce home goods store — funnel analysis identifies £28K monthly checkout abandonment from mobile payment friction.

A WooCommerce home goods store had an overall mobile conversion rate of 0.9% against a desktop conversion rate of 2.8% — a significant mobile-desktop gap that suggested a specific mobile experience problem rather than general audience or product differences. Standard GA4 reporting confirmed the gap but did not identify where in the mobile funnel the abandonment was occurring. A segmented funnel analysis comparing mobile and desktop checkout abandonment at each step revealed that mobile users had a 67% abandonment rate at the payment step — compared to 28% desktop abandonment — a pattern that is the specific signature of a missing mobile payment method (Apple Pay or Google Pay). Our analytics engagement: GA4 funnel exploration configuration with mobile vs desktop segmentation, payment step abandonment analysis, device type breakdown of abandonment rates at each checkout step, and a Hotjar session recording review of mobile checkout sessions (confirming the payment method friction hypothesis through the specific tap patterns of mobile users attempting to complete checkout). Result: The analytics-identified problem was confirmed and remediated (Stripe integration adding Apple Pay and Google Pay to the WooCommerce checkout). Mobile conversion rate improved from 0.9% to 1.6% within 4 weeks of the payment method implementation — a 78% improvement. At the store's 22,000 monthly mobile sessions, the conversion rate improvement represented approximately £28,000 in additional monthly mobile revenue — an outcome that would not have been identified without the segmented funnel analysis.

[ 06 ]Why Clickmasters

Why teams choose us
for their projects.

Measurement quality as a commercial priority

Every marketing investment decision is only as good as the measurement informing it. We treat analytics implementation quality — not just analytics reporting — as a primary commercial priority: the audit that confirms the data is accurate before trusting it, the server-side implementation that maintains measurement completeness as browser privacy restrictions tighten, and the ongoing maintenance that prevents measurement degradation as the store evolves.

E-commerce specialisation

E-commerce analytics has specific requirements that generic web analytics does not: the e-commerce event taxonomy (view_item, add_to_cart, begin_checkout, purchase), the product-level measurement that connects conversions to specific SKUs, the customer-level measurement that connects sessions to known buyers, and the cross-channel attribution that connects marketing touchpoints to revenue outcomes across the multi-session, multi-device customer journeys that e-commerce buyers follow. We bring e-commerce-specific expertise rather than generic analytics knowledge applied to an e-commerce context.

Insights that produce decisions

Analytics that produces dashboards without decisions has not delivered value. We design analytics outputs for the specific decisions they need to inform: the channel allocation decision (which channels deserve more budget), the CRO priority decision (which funnel stage and segment deserves the next optimisation investment), the product decision (which products have the highest purchase-to-return ratios and the most cross-sell potential), and the customer decision (which segments deserve the most retention investment based on their CLV profile). Every analytics engagement is measured by the quality of decisions it enables, not the sophistication of the technical implementation.

[ 07 ]FAQs

Frequently asked questions.

What is e-commerce analytics and why does it matter?+
E-commerce analytics is the practice of collecting, organising, and analysing the data generated by an online store to understand customer behaviour, marketing performance, and business outcomes — and to make better commercial decisions from that understanding. It matters because e-commerce decisions — which products to promote, which marketing channels to invest in, which prices to set, which customers to target for retention — are all better when informed by accurate, specific, cross-channel data than when made on intuition or on incomplete platform-silo reporting. The stores that grow fastest are those that make evidence-based marketing and product decisions faster than their competitors.
What is the difference between GA4 and Shopify Analytics for e-commerce?+
Shopify Analytics reports on orders and revenue using Shopify's own data — it is accurate for transaction data but does not include marketing attribution (which channel drove the session that converted), customer journey data (how many touchpoints occurred before purchase), or the session-level behaviour data (page views, scroll depth, on-site search) that GA4 provides. GA4 provides session-level behaviour and marketing attribution data but relies on accurate implementation to produce reliable e-commerce metrics. For complete e-commerce analytics, the two systems are complementary: Shopify Analytics for transaction accuracy, GA4 for behaviour and attribution. Connecting both in a data warehouse like BigQuery enables the combined analysis that neither provides alone.
How do I know if my GA4 e-commerce tracking is accurate?+
The simplest accuracy check: compare GA4 purchase events and revenue against your Shopify or WooCommerce order count and revenue for the same period. A discrepancy of more than 5-10% indicates a tracking problem. Common causes: double-firing purchase events (GA4 reports more purchases than actually occurred), missing purchase events (GA4 reports fewer purchases), and incorrect revenue values (GA4 revenue different from actual order value). We conduct analytics audits that systematically test every critical measurement point and identify the specific technical issues causing discrepancies.
What is BigQuery and why would an e-commerce store need it?+
BigQuery is Google's cloud data warehouse — the analytical database that stores the raw, row-level event data that GA4 collects. GA4's native interface aggregates and summarises this data, limiting the analyses available to the pre-built reports and the exploration tool's capabilities. BigQuery provides access to the raw data, enabling the custom SQL analysis that answers the specific commercial questions e-commerce businesses need to answer: which customers acquired through which channels have the highest 12-month LTV, which product combinations are most commonly purchased together, and what is the true multi-touch attributed revenue of each marketing channel across the full customer journey. E-commerce stores generating £500K+ annually and spending £5,000+ monthly on advertising typically benefit meaningfully from BigQuery.
What is customer lifetime value and why does it matter for marketing?+
Customer lifetime value (CLV or LTV) is the total revenue a business expects to receive from a customer over their entire relationship with the brand. It matters for marketing because the acquisition cost a business can afford to pay for a new customer is determined by that customer's expected lifetime value, not just their first-purchase value. A customer who purchases once and never returns has a CLV equal to their first order. A customer who purchases six times per year for three years has a CLV of 18 transactions. If Google Shopping acquires mostly one-purchase customers and Facebook acquires mostly multi-purchase customers, the correct budget allocation prioritises Facebook — even if Facebook's last-click ROAS appears lower.
How long does e-commerce analytics implementation take?+
A GA4 audit and remediation for an existing Shopify or WooCommerce store typically takes 2-4 weeks. A complete GA4 implementation from scratch (including server-side tracking and e-commerce event configuration) typically takes 3-6 weeks. A full data warehouse implementation (BigQuery, Shopify/WooCommerce data export, advertising data pipelines, and customer analytics dashboard) typically takes 8-14 weeks. Monthly analytics management retainers begin after the initial implementation is complete.
How much does e-commerce analytics implementation cost?+
A GA4 audit and remediation typically costs $3,000-$8,000 depending on the complexity of the tracking issues identified. A complete GA4 implementation for Shopify or WooCommerce typically costs $5,000-$15,000. A full data warehouse and customer analytics implementation (BigQuery, ETL pipelines, LTV modelling, executive dashboards) typically costs $20,000-$60,000 for mid-market stores. Ongoing analytics management retainers (monthly implementation health checks, new feature implementation, reporting) typically cost $2,000-$6,000 per month.
How do I get started?+
Book a free e-commerce analytics audit. We review your current GA4 implementation, your Shopify or WooCommerce data exports, and your advertising platform reporting to identify the specific measurement gaps most likely to be affecting your marketing investment decisions. We provide a prioritised improvement plan. No commitment required at the audit stage.

[ 08 ] Ready when you are

Ready to Make Marketing Decisions Based on Data You Can Trust?

Every marketing investment decision you make with broken attribution, missing conversion data, or platform-inflated ROAS is a decision that systematically misallocates budget. The fix is not more data — it is accurate, connected, cross-channel data that answers the specific commercial questions your business needs to grow. We build that for you.

Clickmasters Digital Marketing · Serving USA, UK, UAE, Pakistan, Canada, Australia

Amjad Khan — CEO, Clickmasters Digital Marketing | E-commerce analytics specialist | 10+ years