Lead Analyst

The Home Depot

Atlanta (GA)

On-site

USD 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

The Home Depot in Atlanta is seeking a Decision Analytics professional to turn data into actionable business insights. You will partner with merchandising, marketing, and ELT teams to develop KPI frameworks and drive analytics solutions using Python, R, SQL, Jupyter, VertexAI, and Tableau.

Responsibilities include leading complex analytics projects, mentoring teams, and communicating results to senior leaders. Expect travel 5–20% and a collaborative, data-driven work environment.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent.
6+ years of analytics or BI experience.
Master's degree preferred in analytics, finance, information systems, or related field.
Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills.
Ability to translate data into actionable business insights.
Experience building KPI frameworks for marketing and e-commerce.
Proficiency in Python, R, SQL, Jupyter, Tableau.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with internal customers and cross-functional teams to translate business needs into analytics solutions.
Lead large, complex analytics projects and mentor teams; drive Agile delivery.
Clearly communicate insights to technical and non-technical leaders and enable implementation of insights.
Direct requirements gathering and development of predictive and prescriptive analytics applications.

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GCP BigQuery

Python

SQL

Jupyter Notebook

Adobe Analytics

Tableau

VertexAI

AutoML

Job description

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose:

Decision Analytics associates produce insights that answer key enterprise questions around budget, priorities, courses of action, and important decisions. They develop frameworks for analysis by identifying the right metrics for consistent, effective insights that drive business outcomes. Decision Analytics associates are skilled in advanced analytics and analytical tools and languages such as GCP Big Query, Python, R, SQL, Jupyter Notebook, Adobe Analytics, and Tableau. While they may have the ability to support model development and AI/ML work, they are primarily focused on internal business insights (i.e., business intelligence). Decision Analytics associates possess the domain expertise to understand the businesses they support with their analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

20% - Business Collaboration - Leverage extensive business knowledge into solution approach. Effectively develop trust and collaboration with internal customers and cross-functional teams. Partner with Other Orgs to understand potential for new tools and ways to maintain technical agility for advanced analytics.
25% - Project Management & Team Support - Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams. Provide direction on prioritization of work and ensure quality of work. Collaborate with managers and team in the distribution of workload and resources. Serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) on both predictive and prescriptive analytics. Drive effective Agile project delivery protocols to assure we gather and surface reliable, actionable enterprise level analytics. Ensure the team comprehends and applies the established processes and standards and mentor team on development.
30% - Solution Development - Effectively communicate insights and recommendations to both technical and non-technical leaders and business customers/partners. Clearly communicate impacts of recommendations to drive alignment and appropriate implementation. Develops solutions to transform data into useful, actionable information.
25% - Technical Exploration & Development - Guide and direct project teams in the requirements gathering, design, and development of complex applications/programs. Provide technical education on advanced analytics to analytics community. Drive analytics teams to get matured in predictive and prescriptive analytics.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

This position reports to the Senior Manager or Above
This position has 0 direct reports

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

Preferred Qualifications:

Master's degree in a quantitative field (Analytics, Finance, Information Systems, etc.)
Working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Power Point
Manage requests and roadmaps for insights for the online merchandising, marketing, and ELT organizations
Produce deep, statistical analysis in service of predictive insights
Ability to partner with requesting organizations to build KPI frameworks
Ability to code in Python, R, SQL, Jupyter Notebook, VertexAI and AutoML
Ability to visualize data using Tableau
Demonstrated expertise in data analysis and data visualization
Demonstrated expertise in how to translate analysis into effective presentations
Demonstrated expertise utilizing data analysis to identify key insights that help solve business problems

Minimum Education:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a master's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

Minimum Leadership Experience: