Senior Analyst, Item Data Management – Data Quality

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

About The Position

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. Position Purpose: The purpose of the Senior Data Analyst for Product Data Insights & Tooling is to turn our vast item catalog into a high-performance engine for decision-making. The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for leveraging complex, large-scale data to derive actionable insights that directly influence and support executive-level merchandising strategy. This role requires a blend of advanced technical data manipulation skills and a deep understanding of retail merchandising principles to translate raw data into clear, impactful business recommendations. In this position, the Senior Data Analyst will build and support automation, leverage AI tooling, and collaborate cross-functionally in alignment with the executive strategy. The position requires knowledge of merchandising, an analytical skillset, and an entrepreneurial mindset. Key responsibilities include: Manipulating and analyzing large, complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities related to category and product performance, customer behavior, and market dynamics. Translating analytical findings into concise, compelling recommendations and presenting them to leadership to inform and validate merchandising strategies. Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports to track key performance indicators, effectively communicating merchandising insights to cross-functional stakeholders. Partnering with cross-functional teams to align analytical projects with overarching business goals and providing data-driven guidance. Key Responsibilities: Represents the Merchandising function in business process evaluation, procedural development, systems requirements definition and systems functional design. Project/Initiative Management--Partners with senior and department management and cross-functional teams in determining and defining business need/requirements; project plans, risk assessments, communication, implementation, training and change management Manages the business and project team expectations including addressing project issues, changes; May directly supervise staff members in the development, implementation and support of applications and business processes to meet the client's business requirements. Driving the requirements gathering efforts for a project (either development or implementation), including managing the expectations of the project manager, the stakeholders, the project team and executive management. Proposing alternatives and solutions to requirements management for each project that most closely aligns with the specific timetables, objectives and business issues at hand. Consulting with cross-functional managers, project managers, management and customers to ensure that all projects undertaken adequately address requirement related issues. Understanding the business case behind all projects, including the motivating factors for all stakeholders. Working with the Business Manager to analyze all potential opportunities to enhance, improve and refine the requirements gathering processes. Establishes and reports on metrics of assigned projects to gauge business value (ROI).; Audits and evaluates implemented projects (systems/processes, for example) to support continuous improvement opportunities.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Proficient in business process evaluation and procedure development
Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of all tools, processes, methodologies and standards for requirements gathering, documentation and analysis.
Previous experience supervising professionals
Experience or in-depth knowledge of retail merchandising and/or logistics; possesses cross functional retail knowledge.
Strong communication, analytical, organizational, leadership and teamwork skills
Demonstrated experience in process improvement and/or SDLC and project management methodology
PC proficiency, including knowledge of worksheet, word processing, project management and presentation applications

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, or a related field.
3-5+ years of experience in a data analytics role, preferably within a retail or merchandising environment.
Proven expertise in manipulating and analyzing large datasets using SQL and/or other programming languages (e.g., Python, R).
Strong proficiency with data visualization tools such as Tableau or Power BI.
Excellent ability to communicate complex data concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.

Responsibilities

Manipulating and analyzing large, complex datasets to identify trends, patterns, and opportunities related to category and product performance, customer behavior, and market dynamics.
Translating analytical findings into concise, compelling recommendations and presenting them to leadership to inform and validate merchandising strategies.
Developing and maintaining dashboards and reports to track key performance indicators, effectively communicating merchandising insights to cross-functional stakeholders.
Partnering with cross-functional teams to align analytical projects with overarching business goals and providing data-driven guidance.
Represents the Merchandising function in business process evaluation, procedural development, systems requirements definition and systems functional design.
Project/Initiative Management--Partners with senior and department management and cross-functional teams in determining and defining business need/requirements; project plans, risk assessments, communication, implementation, training and change management
Manages the business and project team expectations including addressing project issues, changes
May directly supervise staff members in the development, implementation and support of applications and business processes to meet the client's business requirements.
Driving the requirements gathering efforts for a project (either development or implementation), including managing the expectations of the project manager, the stakeholders, the project team and executive management.
Proposing alternatives and solutions to requirements management for each project that most closely aligns with the specific timetables, objectives and business issues at hand.
Consulting with cross-functional managers, project managers, management and customers to ensure that all projects undertaken adequately address requirement related issues.
Understanding the business case behind all projects, including the motivating factors for all stakeholders.
Working with the Business Manager to analyze all potential opportunities to enhance, improve and refine the requirements gathering processes.
Establishes and reports on metrics of assigned projects to gauge business value (ROI).
Audits and evaluates implemented projects (systems/processes, for example) to support continuous improvement opportunities.