Position Overview
The Merchandise Analytics Manager is a strategic analytics partner to the Business Unit Merchandising and Marketing organization, working closely with our North American Merchandising and Data & Analytics teams to strengthen data-driven decision making across the business.
This role connects business strategy, analytics, and execution by helping teams turn trusted data and insights into clear actions that improve merchandising performance. The Merchandise Analytics Manager will partner across functions including Merchandising, Marketing, Finance, Operations, and Data & Analytics to identify business opportunities, define analytical needs, interpret results, and support adoption of enterprise analytics capabilities.
The ideal candidate combines strong business acumen, analytical thinking, communication, and stakeholder leadership. They are comfortable translating complex data into meaningful business insights and helping leaders understand not only what the data is showing, but what actions should be considered as a result.
This role reports to the Business Unit Marketing Director.
Key Responsibilities
Serve as a strategic analytics partner to Business Unit Merchandising and Marketing leaders, helping translate business questions and opportunities into actionable analytical insights.
Champion data-driven decision making by helping teams effectively use enterprise data, analytics products, reporting, and insights in day-to-day business processes.
Support ongoing evaluation of merchandising performance across areas such as sales, margin, promotions, assortment, category performance, customer behavior, and other key business drivers.
Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities, risks, trends, and performance gaps and translate analytical findings into clear recommendations and actions.
Work cross-functionally with Business Unit teams, various Merchandising teams, and Data & Analytics to identify analytical needs, clarify business requirements, and improve existing data products, reporting, tools, and processes.
Represent Business Unit needs and perspectives in the development and enhancement of enterprise analytics capabilities, providing feedback on functionality, usability, data quality, and business value.
Support the adoption of new data and analytics capabilities by helping business teams understand how to interpret insights and incorporate them into existing decision-making processes.
Develop and enhance reusable analytical approaches, models, reporting, and frameworks that improve consistency and scalability across merchandising decision making.
Create clear, concise, and compelling presentations and narratives that translate complex analytical findings into insights appropriate for business leaders and other stakeholders.
Participate in business planning and performance-review processes by bringing relevant data, insights, and recommendations into strategic conversations.
Collaborate with the broader global analytics community to share best practices, lessons learned, business use cases, and emerging opportunities across Business Units.
Mentor and support the development of junior analytical resources where applicable.
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience, in Business Analytics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Business, or a related field.
Three or more years of progressively responsible experience in analytics, merchandising, retail, business intelligence, strategy, or related discipline.
Demonstrated ability to translate complex data and analysis into clear business insights, recommendations, and actions.
Strong business acumen with the ability to connect analytical findings to commercial and operational outcomes.
Proven ability to communicate effectively with senior leaders through concise, structured written communication, presentations, and executive-level discussions.
Experience partnering across multiple organizational functions and…