Senior Data Analyst, Merchandising & Revenue Analytics

Guitar Center Inc.; Westlake Village, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 175,000; Full time

Job summary

Guitar Center is seeking a Staff Data Analyst in Westlake Village, CA. This senior analytics partner will drive decisions for Merchandising and adjacent commercial teams by sizing opportunities and framing questions.

You will lead measurement design, collaborate with Data Engineering and BI, and translate findings into clear recommendations to improve pricing, inventory, promotions, and customer outcomes.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of data analytics experience at staff-level or senior individual contributor.
• Retail, eCommerce, merchandising analytics experience preferred.
• Strong SQL, Python, and BI skills with data visualization fluency.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Merchandising to guide decisions across pricing, assortment, allocation and promotions.
• Identify and size opportunities with Merchandising leaders and analytics teams.
• Translate ambiguous questions into measurement plans and conduct rigorous analyses.
• Define needed data and capabilities and partner with Data Engineering and BI to operationalize solutions.
• Design experiments and causal measurement, accounting for seasonality and bias.
• Turn complex findings into clear recommendations and build merchandising fluency in data usage.
• Establish policies and standards for experimentation and causal inference with analytics leadership.

Skills

SQL

Python

BI visualization

Communication

Stakeholder leadership

Retail analytics

Tools

Looker

Tableau

Power BI

Omni

Job description

Guitar Center is seeking a Staff Data Analyst in Westlake Village, CA. This senior analytics partner will drive decisions for Merchandising and adjacent commercial teams by sizing opportunities and framing questions.

You will lead measurement design, collaborate with Data Engineering and BI, and translate findings into clear recommendations to improve pricing, inventory, promotions, and customer outcomes.