Senior Business Analyst, Analytics

Overstock.Com; Center (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Bed Bath & Beyond is seeking an analytics professional to extract and analyze large retail datasets, focusing on sales, inventory, and pricing performance. You will partner with Merchandising, Planning, Finance, and IT to translate business questions into actionable insights.

The role requires strong SQL, Excel, and cloud data-warehousing experience, plus the ability to communicate findings to stakeholders and drive data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of analytics, BI, merchandising, or retail experience.
• Strong SQL skills and experience querying large datasets.
• Experience with relational databases or cloud data warehouses.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to recognize trends, correlations, anomalies, and data quality issues.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Supply Chain, or another quantitative/analytical field, or equivalent experience.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced SQL to extract, manipulate, validate, and analyze large and complex retail datasets.
• Analyze sales, demand, inventory, product, category, pricing, and promotional performance.
• Provide ad hoc strategic and tactical analysis to Merchandising and Planning teams.
• Identify trends and opportunities across categories, brands, products, and customer segments.
• Support merchandise planning, forecasting, assortment, and performance measurement.
• Analyze the effectiveness of pricing and promotional strategies.
• Develop and maintain merchandising KPIs, dashboards, and recurring reporting.
• Support business cases for merchandising initiatives and strategic decisions.
• Partner with Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Technology teams to translate business questions into analytical solutions.
• Understand data pipelines and transformations sufficiently to identify data quality issues and analytical caveats.
• Investigate discrepancies across sales, inventory, product, and financial reporting.
• Clearly communicate analytical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Bachelor's in a quantitative field

Tools

BigQuery

Python

MicroStrategy

Job description

About the Company

We Go Beyond: At Bed Bath & Beyond, we believe that everyone should "Be You!." Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person’s individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced SQL to extract, manipulate, validate, and analyze large and complex retail datasets.
• Analyze sales, demand, inventory, product, category, pricing, and promotional performance.
• Provide ad hoc strategic and tactical analysis to Merchandising and Planning teams.
• Identify trends and opportunities across categories, brands, products, and customer segments.
• Support merchandise planning, forecasting, assortment, and performance measurement.
• Analyze the effectiveness of pricing and promotional strategies.
• Develop and maintain merchandising KPIs, dashboards, and recurring reporting.
• Support business cases for merchandising initiatives and strategic decisions.
• Partner with Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Technology teams to translate business questions into analytical solutions.
• Understand data pipelines and transformations sufficiently to identify data quality issues and analytical caveats.
• Investigate discrepancies across sales, inventory, product, and financial reporting.
• Clearly communicate analytical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required

• 2+ years of relevant analytics, business intelligence, merchandising, or retail experience.
• Strong SQL skills and demonstrated experience querying and analyzing large datasets.
• Experience working with relational databases or cloud data warehouses.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to recognize trends, correlations, anomalies, and data quality issues.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Supply Chain, or another quantitative/analytical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Retail or e-commerce experience.
• Experience supporting Merchandising or Merchandise Planning organizations.
• Understanding of retail concepts such as sales, margin, inventory, sell-through, assortment, pricing, promotions, and product/category performance.
• Experience with merchandise planning, demand planning, forecasting, or inventory analytics.
• Experience analyzing pricing or promotional performance.
• Experience working with product hierarchies and SKU-level data.
• Experience with BigQuery, MicroStrategy, or Python.
• Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.

Physical Requirements

This position requires you to sit, stand and perform general office functions. You may also be required to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally. Bending, stooping and reaching are also frequently required.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It is our policy to provide equal employment opportunity for all applicants and associates. This policy includes our commitment to ensure that all employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status (including Vietnam era veterans), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other non-job-related characteristic protected by law.

Back to Bed Bath & Beyond Careers Bed Bath & Beyond is committed to an inclusive, outcome-driven, and empowering work environment. Join a team that encourages you to be authentically you. Bed, Bath & Beyond is a tech-driven online retailer located near Salt Lake City in the shadow of the Wasatch Mountains. Though we began in 1999 as Overstock, our brand has evolved from a liquidation startup to a billion-dollar online home retailer. In 2023 Overstock acquired the Bed Bath & Beyond branding and we've been helping customers from both companies create their dream homes ever since. In 2025 the company acquired the buybuyBaby branding bringing the two iconic brands back together.