About the job

Shaw Search Partners is proud to lead the retained search to identify a Merchandising Analytics Director on behalf of a renowned Retailer client.

This role is responsible for developing, implementing, and executing analytics that help the Merchandising team achieve their goals and business objectives. This role collaborates with Merchandising leaders to develop and execute the strategies for pricing, promotion, assortment, and vendor management. This role is responsible for the standard set of insights & reporting available for Merchandising teams to access and utilize daily. This role is also responsible for coaching and developing team members to further advance Merchandising knowledge and analytical skillset.

Responsibilities

• Develops, implements, and executes standard set of insights and reporting that Merchandising teams will utilize in order achieve business objectives and goals. Leads teams that build and optimize reports in a user-friendly manner for merchants to access via Power BI.

• Leads pricing strategy which include adjustments based on cost changes, base retail optimizations, and new item setup.

• Develops, implements, and executes category reset strategy by providing category reset analytical data packs to guide merchants on assortment decisions based on category roles.

• Provide insights and recommendations for promotional strategy changes for merchandising to align to company objectives. Provides category & product insights on customer trends, promotional effectiveness and efficiency, financial KPIs, and supply chain KPIs for each category to recommend changes.

• Provides space analytics and collaborates with real estate, merchandising, and real estate on optimal space adjustments for new stores and renewals.

• Collaborates with 3rd party market share provider to leverage market data to include in standard category reset data packs.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years with 5 years of management experience .

• Ability to manage and direct multiple complex projects simultaneously to drive solutions that meet or surpass business expectations.

• Strong experience leading a team building data visualizations with Power BI or Tableau.

• Strong experience leading a team utilizing SQL or visual query builders with Alteryx to query information from on-premises database or cloud solutions (Google Big Data, AWS, Microsoft Azure, Salesforce)

Education

• Bachelor's Degree required.

• Master's or Advanced degree in Business Data Analytics, Data Science, or related field preferred.