Senior Analyst, Merch Ops Analytics

Workplace

• This position is based at Lowe's on-site office in Bengaluru.

Team and job summary

Core responsibilities

• Support product line reviews, business reviews, and strategic initiatives through collaboration with peers and functional teams.
• Develop and maintain scorecards and analyze root-cause drivers of performance.
• Provide actionable performance analysis and insights that enable informed business decisions.
• Prepare financial and non-financial analyses using multiple data sources.
• Translate insights into clear, understandable themes and recommendations for leaders.
• Identify additional research and analytics needed to improve solutions.
• Coordinate with cross-functional teams to ensure project continuity and strategic alignment.
• Adapt to changing priorities, pursue new knowledge, and seek feedback.

Experience and education

• 3+ years of data analytics experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Statistics, Economics, or another quantitative discipline, or MBA/PGDM.

Required skills

• Retail analytics, Power BI, SQL, advanced Excel, statistical analysis, data modeling, and data visualization.
• Business insights, stakeholder management, and strong communication and articulation skills.
• Complex SQL data wrangling and data extraction across Teradata and Hadoop databases.
• Advanced Excel reporting and dashboard creation.
• Cross-functional and global partner collaboration.
• End-to-end project execution and stakeholder engagement.
• Understanding of retail math and statistics.

Desired skills

• Python, SAS, or R experience for big-data transformations is preferred.
• Power BI, MicroStrategy, or Tableau experience is preferred.
• Retail category analytics experience directly supporting merchants is desired.
• Advanced modelling and statistical techniques for merchandising business problems are desired.