Senior Analyst Category Experience

Position Purpose

The Sr. Analyst Category Experience works closely with their leadership team to understand the merchandising strategies and objectives. This position will analyze and leverage customer information and behaviors as well as competitive bench-marking to identify areas necessary to improve the customer research shopping experience. Ultimately these improvements will result in improved customer and associate satisfaction, increased traffic and sales, and improved conversion. This role is an opportunity to be at the leading edge of truly channel-interconnected retail leadership while further building functional skills in merchandising.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze customer information, external data, internal research, site behaviors, post-transaction data to identify the most significant opportunities to improve the customer experience across categories.
• Identify opportunities to improve taxonomy, purchase path, search and navigation data, content, SEO, and post-transaction results through tactical execution.
• Execute system changes for promotional activity.
• Develop and execute taxonomy changes in the system necessary to support new onboarding and business changes.

Direct Manager and Direct Reports

• Position reports to Manager Category Experience.
• 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.
• No travel required.

Minimum Qualifications

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
• Proven results in any, but including most of the following areas: CI, CRM, customer experience, product content optimization, product management, financial analysis, business analysis, data analytics.

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong numeric and advanced analytics aptitude.
• Basic technical aptitude with web-based tools and advanced proficiency of the Microsoft Office Suite.
• The ability to understand and influence cross-functional inputs to Merchandising for achieving better output results.
• High comfort level with working in an ambiguous, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to solve complex problems.
• Strong interpersonal, motivational, and communication skills, speaking, writing, presenting.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Track record of taking ownership and driving results.

Minimum Education

• The knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelors 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 years

Preferred Years of Work Experience

• No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience

• None

Preferred Leadership Experience

• None

Certifications

• None

Competencies

• Action Oriented
• Collaborates
• Drives Engagement
• Communicates Effectively
• Customer Focus
• Drives Results
• Manages Conflict