Business Intelligence & Analytics Mgr – Operations (Data Analysis)
Dollar General · Goodlettsville, Tennessee, United States
Retail · 10,001+ employees
About the role
The manager will conduct in-depth data analysis across merchandising, supply chain, and retail operations to identify risks and mitigate product shrink. They will synthesize findings into actionable recommendations to influence assortment decisions and support financial goals.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must have a bachelor's degree and 3-5 years of professional experience in analytics, retail merchandising, or operations. Proficiency in data query tools, Microsoft Office, and strong communication skills are required.
Full description
Company Overview
General Summary:
Conducts in-depth data analysis with a using a cross functional knowledge of: merchandising, supply chain, and retail operations to identify areas of opportunity to mitigate product shrink and damages. Synthesizes root cause analysis to provide insights and actional recommendations and influence assortment decisions. Contributes to special projects and activities to minimize shrink and damage risk in our stores to help the company receive its financial goals.
Job Details
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Provides critical insights and recommendations throughout reset planning process, influencing assortment decisions to minimize shrink and damages.
- Proactively identifies shrink and damage risk using leading indicators, taking action with cross functional partners to mitigate financial impact.
- Provides analysis and recommendations for special projects or activities requiring integration between Merchandising, Global Inventory, and Store Operations, and CPG vendors.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs):
- Demonstrated ability to turn data into insights and recommendations, ‘telling the story’ to stakeholders and influencing decisions.
- Understanding of data visualization and design principles, communicating data dense information in a digestible way.
- Familiarity with merchandising, retail operations, and supply chain concepts.
- Ability to prioritize projects based on solution impact, time to implement, and/or direction from leadership.
- Experience turning ad hoc analysis into repeatable/scalable templates.
- Intermediate to advanced query skills in 1010data.
- High-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Advanced level of proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite applications.
- Experience with dashboarding tools like PowerBI a plus.
- Experience with programming languages like SQL and python a plus.
Qualifications
Work Experience &/or Education:
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s in related field preferred (Business, Economics, Data Science, Engineering).
- 3 – 5 yrs relevant professional experience in analytics and data science, retail merchandising, financial planning and analysis, asset protection, operations, required.
