Senior Business Analyst - Merchandising Product Enablement

The Home Depot•Atlanta, GA

9d•Onsite

About The Position

This role is responsible for leading cross-functional merchandising system initiatives by driving business requirements, process optimization, and project execution to improve operational performance and system adoption. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate over 2,200 retail stores across North America. All of our associates have one thing in mind — helping our customers build and improve their homes and businesses.

Requirements

Must be eighteen years of age or older.
Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
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.
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

5+ yrs business experience and/or management consulting or merchandising preferred.
Minimum of 3 years project management, consulting experience preferably in a retail environment.
At least 2 years of experience managing retail/merchandising process improvement projects.
Cross functional project management experience within The Home Depot.
Experience with myAssortment.
Previous experience supervising professionals.
Experience or in-depth knowledge of retail merchandising and/or logistics; possesses cross functional retail knowledge.

Responsibilities

Represents the Merchandising function in business process evaluation, procedural development, systems requirements definition and systems functional design.
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.