Analytics Lead – Merchandise (Hybrid & Impact)

Kmart; Victoria; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid working

Team member discount

Brighter Benefits

Bonus program

Parental leave

Circle In support

Learning program

Mentor program

Kudos recognition

Wesfarmers career opportunities

Job summary

Kmart in Australia is seeking an Analytics Lead – Merchandise to shape data-driven decisions across merchandise planning for Kmart and Target. You’ll partner with Merchandising, Planning and Technology teams to translate business challenges into analytics solutions and drive adoption across systems consolidation.

This 12-month fixed term contract runs Feb 2027–Feb 2028, with flexible hybrid working. Experience delivering retail analytics projects, strong data storytelling, and hands-on AI MVP

Qualifications

• Experience delivering analytics projects in a business-facing role within retail.
• Understand how data supports commercial decisions in range, pricing, promotions or planning.
• Hands-on AI MVP development to prototype with business users.
• Partner with Data Science, Data Engineering, Product and Technology teams.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to translate data into recommendations.
• Experience working in Agile environments and moving projects to implementation.
• Experience taking a solution from inception through MVP to rollout and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Merchandising and Planning to identify high-value analytics opportunities.
• Diagnose problems using data, test assumptions, and uncover opportunities.
• Translate business challenges into analytics requirements for tech teams.
• Collaborate with data scientists to develop and integrate models into merch apps.
• Turn complex analytics outputs into clear, actionable recommendations.
• Support analytics solutions across the merchandise systems consolidation journey.
• Drive implementation, user adoption and measurable value from analytics.
• Communicate progress, risks and outcomes to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Skills

Retail analytics

Data storytelling

AI MVP

Cross-functional

Agile working

Stakeholder comms

Job description

Kmart in Australia is seeking an Analytics Lead – Merchandise to shape data-driven decisions across merchandise planning for Kmart and Target. You’ll partner with Merchandising, Planning and Technology teams to translate business challenges into analytics solutions and drive adoption across systems consolidation.

This 12-month fixed term contract runs Feb 2027–Feb 2028, with flexible hybrid working. Experience delivering retail analytics projects, strong data storytelling, and hands-on AI MVP