Senior Analyst, Decision Analytics

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Analyst, Decision Analytics to develop advanced analytics and scalable reporting that support Merchandising, Inventory, Offshelf Events, and FP&A.

You will transform legacy reports into trusted models, own recurring close-period and weekly ELT reporting, and use SQL, SAS, R, Python and Tableau to deliver sharp insights while communicating with senior stakeholders.

Ideal candidate has 2–3 years analytics experience and a background in retail analytics.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent.
• 2–3 years of analytics experience preferred.
• Experience with SQL, SAS, Tableau, R, Python and similar tools preferred.
• Experience building queries and simplifying complex queries.
• Experience working with AI.
• Experience collaborating with stakeholders or cross-functional teams.
• Experience in retail merchandising, inventory, or FP&A preferred.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, colleagues, developers, and analysts to deliver high quality analytics solutions.
• Data analytics with large volumes of data using SQL, SAS, R, and Python.
• Data cleansing, validation, and testing.
• Enhancements or modifications to systems and procedures.
• Supporting end users, problem solving, and troubleshooting.

Skills

SQL

SAS

R

Python

Tableau

Dashboarding

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree preferred

Tools

SQL

SAS

Tableau

R

Python

Job description

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

Position Purpose:

The Senior Analyst, Decision Analytics position assists in the development of advanced analytics to support the company’s strategic objectives. This resource will build analytics and reporting that supports Merchandising, Inventory, Offshelf Events, and FP&A partners. The Senior Analyst will also be responsible for rebuilding legacy reporting into clean, trusted models that deliver sharper insights, and deliver and own recurring close-period support, weekly ELT reporting, and other recurring partner reporting. The Senior Analyst will use AI, SQL, and modern tooling to drive deeper insights and accelerate analysis, manage multiple priorities, and communicate clearly with senior stakeholders. The ideal candidate has experience in analytics or reporting, ideally in retail merchandising, inventory, or FP&A, with strong dashboarding skills.

Key Responsibilities:

• 15% Collaborate with stakeholders, business partners, colleagues, developers, and business analysts to deliver high quality analytics solutions
• 65% Data analytics with large volumes of data, using a wide variety of database applications / analytical tools including SQL, SAS, R, and python
• 10% Data cleansing, validation, testing
• 5% Enhancements / modifications to systems & procedures
• 5% Supporting end users, problem solving, troubleshooting

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Reports to a Manager.
• This position has no direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% 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:

• Master’s degree in Analytics, Finance, or Information Systems or related field is preferred
• 2-3 years of experience in analytics is preferred
• Experience in SQL, SAS, Tableau, R, python and similar tools preferred
• Experience building queries and taking complex queries and simplifying them
• Experience working with AI
• Experience working with stakeholders or cross-functionally with other teams
• Experience in retail merchandising, inventory, or FP&A

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:

• No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 2

Preferred Years of Work Experience:

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience:

• None

Certifications:

• None

Competencies:

• None