Business Analyst

The Home Depot; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Business Analyst to develop and maintain vendor dashboards that track financial performance and category performance. You will enable the merchandising group to review data for informed decision-making and lead standardized reporting, processes, and information systems solutions.

This role oversees the front-end of the project lifecycle, ensuring well-defined business needs and requirements.

Qualifications

• Minimum Qualifications: 18+ years old; legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal).
• Strong project management and cross-functional collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead all phases of a project life cycle from feasibility to implementation.
• Serve as liaison between merchandising and finance by facilitating meetings.
• Mentor other analysts to develop business knowledge and analytical skills.
• Act as a subject matter expert performing research and analysis within projects.
• Multi-task across 2–4 projects simultaneously and drive process improvements.
• Establish and report on metrics to gauge business value.

Skills

Project management

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Analytical skills

Mentoring

Leadership

Business analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor's Degree

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Market Max reporting system

Job description

Position Purpose

This position will have primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of vendor dashboards to determine financial performance. The business analyst will develp dashboards to track category and program performance that will provide the merchandising group function with the ability to review data that will provide attributes to make informed deicisons regarding category performance. The business analyst contributes in a lead role to the merchandising group function in the evaluation, design development, and implementation of stardardized reporting, business processes and information systems solutions. This allows customers (the associates in the merchandising function) to maximize their productivity and make sound, effective decisions based on consistent, accurate information. The business analyst handles the front-end of the project life cycle; ensuring the business need and requirements are defined and scoped accurately.

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Position Purpose

This position will have primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of vendor dashboards to determine financial performance. The business analyst will develp dashboards to track category and program performance that will provide the merchandising group function with the ability to review data that will provide attributes to make informed deicisons regarding category performance. The business analyst contributes in a lead role to the merchandising group function in the evaluation, design development, and implementation of stardardized reporting, business processes and information systems solutions. This allows customers (the associates in the merchandising function) to maximize their productivity and make sound, effective decisions based on consistent, accurate information. The business analyst handles the front-end of the project life cycle; ensuring the business need and requirements are defined and scoped accurately.

Key Responsibilities

• 20% Plan and lead all phases of a project's life cycle (i.e. feasibility, design implementation, evaluation); this inclues extracting the business need; defining the business requirements, understanding the impact on the business, and designing and carrying out the project(s)
• 10% Serve as liaison between merchandising and finance by facilitating meetings including both departments
• 10% Mentor other analysts in developing/honing business knowledge and analytical skills
• 20% Servce as a subject matter expert and perform research and/or analysis within assigned projects
• 20% Multi-task to work on 2 to 4 projects simultaneously, recommending process improvements and making final project recommendations which impact the business
• 20% Establish and report on metrics of assigned projects to guage business value

Direct Manager/Direct Reports

• Reports to a director-level position within merchandising
• No direct reports, however, the position will be required to mentor others who have the need for assistance

Travel Requirements

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Experience with Market Max reporting system
• Good communication skills (written and verbal)

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.

Preferred Education

• No additional education

Minimum Years Of Work Experience

• 2

Competencies

• Strong project management skills, including strong process orientation, ability to work in a cross-functional team environment
• Good communication skills, including ability to interact with officers, also needs the ability to negotiate and persuade
• Strong analytical skills and general understanding of technical concepts
• Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to handle multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables
• Proven leadership skills, including a willingness and ability to be a mentor