Lead Analyst (Category Insights) – Merchandising Finance

About the job

Your primary responsibility is to leverage our data warehouses to work in large data environments and curate to provide insights to our customer marketing organization. You will leverage data-driven insights to enhance Product/Brand Performance, customer targeting strategies, Promotional Insights and customer trends in our loyalty. This role requires a blend of analytical expertise as well as strong data mining and organization skills. Key Responsibilities: - Leverage Financial Metrics and customer buying patterns to drive rapid and real time insights to our GFO team. - Leverage large data environments and data warehouses to extract, curate, and analyze Product performance. - Analyze and interpret product and category performance to identify growth opportunities across key merchandising areas. - Build strategic partnerships with merchandizing leaders enabling proactive decision making focused to generate greater basket size, more trips & builds customer relationships. - Use data visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) to communicate complex data in an easily digestible format for non-technical stakeholders.

Requirements

• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• SQL
• Advanced Excel

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Data or Information Sciences, or related field
• 7-8 years of analytic experience

Preferred Technologies

• Data Analysis
• Data Visualization
• SQL
• Advanced Excel

About the company

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.