Home Depot Management Company, LLC
Sr. Analyst, Interconnected Strategy
Home Depot Management Company, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, 30383
Position Purpose:
Home Depot is the world's #1 home improvement retailer with over $150B in annual sales. Over $20B of these sales come from our market-leading interconnected customer experiences, which combine cutting edge ecommerce capabilities with trusted value of our 2,000+ stores and 500,000+ associates.
Home Depot's Interconnected Experience is a key enabler of our ability to grown and gain market share in any macroeconomic environment. Delivering a best-in-world interconnected retail experience for Pros and Consumers is one of Home Depot's top strategic priorities, requiring the establishment of clear strategic direction to support cross-functional alignment and organizational investment.
The Interconnected Strategy team is responsible for the development and execution of Home Depot's overall interconnected and online business strategy. This includes identifying top opportunities based on market dynamics, developing efforts to address those opportunities, and ensuring adequate internal resourcing + building external relationships to support those efforts. Partnering with internal business partners, will aim to understand existing operations to assess or implement potential changes and refinements. This effort is complemented by external research focused on market trends, customer behavior, and competitor actions, enabling to better tailor our recommendations. Finally, Sr. Analysts create materials and presentations to effectively communicate frameworks, problem framing, strategies and insights to senior leaders.
The Sr. Analyst is a key member of the Interconnected Strategy team. Working with team leadership, the Sr. Analyst is heavily involved with research, financial analysis, materials creation, and project management that are critical to defining and executing THD's interconnected strategy. In this role, the Sr. Analyst will be exposed to all elements of online retail (e.g., market and customer dynamics; competitive landscape; technology trends; category, pricing, social and mobile strategies; interconnected and fulfillment operations).
Key Responsibilities:50% Planning Process: Supports the strategic and operational planning cycle through building models, performing business analysis and benchmarking studies. Works closely with the business to help communicate the strategy and planning outcomes.40% Strategic Projects: Analyzes business problems, structures the issue and performs analyses. Synthesizes data to help develop a solution, creates documents communicating solution using structured communications principles, helps present solution to team and stakeholders, and works with stakeholders to implement the solution.10% Competitive and Market Intelligence: Perform research on key competitors and market trends; own regular reporting on one or more data sourcesDirect Manager/Direct Reports:
Reports to a Manager, or Director of Business Ops & Strategy.This role had 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:
Strong financial acumen and understanding of business/economicsBackground in one of the following areas: corporate or business unit strategy formulation, strategic finance and planning, ecommerce business operationsPrevious exposure to supporting a retail organization or Tech-Media-Telecom sectorStrong skills in quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and strategic problem solvingStrong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with senior leadershipStrong interpersonal skillsAbility to manage cross-functional partnershipsHigh degree of confidentiality and professionalismMinimum 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 educationMinimum Years of Work Experience:
3Preferred Years of Work Experience:
No additional years of experienceMinimum Leadership Experience:
NonePreferred Leadership Experience:
NoneCertifications:
NoneCompetencies:
Strong technical abilities including model building and accessing, structuring and analyzing dataProven ability to solve problems and perform strategic/financial analysisProven ability to analyze, evaluate, and interpret complex data; innate intellectual curiosityStrong project management and organizational skillsStrong communication and presentation skillsHigh comfort level working in high growth / fast paced environment
Home Depot is the world's #1 home improvement retailer with over $150B in annual sales. Over $20B of these sales come from our market-leading interconnected customer experiences, which combine cutting edge ecommerce capabilities with trusted value of our 2,000+ stores and 500,000+ associates.
Home Depot's Interconnected Experience is a key enabler of our ability to grown and gain market share in any macroeconomic environment. Delivering a best-in-world interconnected retail experience for Pros and Consumers is one of Home Depot's top strategic priorities, requiring the establishment of clear strategic direction to support cross-functional alignment and organizational investment.
The Interconnected Strategy team is responsible for the development and execution of Home Depot's overall interconnected and online business strategy. This includes identifying top opportunities based on market dynamics, developing efforts to address those opportunities, and ensuring adequate internal resourcing + building external relationships to support those efforts. Partnering with internal business partners, will aim to understand existing operations to assess or implement potential changes and refinements. This effort is complemented by external research focused on market trends, customer behavior, and competitor actions, enabling to better tailor our recommendations. Finally, Sr. Analysts create materials and presentations to effectively communicate frameworks, problem framing, strategies and insights to senior leaders.
The Sr. Analyst is a key member of the Interconnected Strategy team. Working with team leadership, the Sr. Analyst is heavily involved with research, financial analysis, materials creation, and project management that are critical to defining and executing THD's interconnected strategy. In this role, the Sr. Analyst will be exposed to all elements of online retail (e.g., market and customer dynamics; competitive landscape; technology trends; category, pricing, social and mobile strategies; interconnected and fulfillment operations).
Key Responsibilities:50% Planning Process: Supports the strategic and operational planning cycle through building models, performing business analysis and benchmarking studies. Works closely with the business to help communicate the strategy and planning outcomes.40% Strategic Projects: Analyzes business problems, structures the issue and performs analyses. Synthesizes data to help develop a solution, creates documents communicating solution using structured communications principles, helps present solution to team and stakeholders, and works with stakeholders to implement the solution.10% Competitive and Market Intelligence: Perform research on key competitors and market trends; own regular reporting on one or more data sourcesDirect Manager/Direct Reports:
Reports to a Manager, or Director of Business Ops & Strategy.This role had 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:
Strong financial acumen and understanding of business/economicsBackground in one of the following areas: corporate or business unit strategy formulation, strategic finance and planning, ecommerce business operationsPrevious exposure to supporting a retail organization or Tech-Media-Telecom sectorStrong skills in quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and strategic problem solvingStrong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with senior leadershipStrong interpersonal skillsAbility to manage cross-functional partnershipsHigh degree of confidentiality and professionalismMinimum 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 educationMinimum Years of Work Experience:
3Preferred Years of Work Experience:
No additional years of experienceMinimum Leadership Experience:
NonePreferred Leadership Experience:
NoneCertifications:
NoneCompetencies:
Strong technical abilities including model building and accessing, structuring and analyzing dataProven ability to solve problems and perform strategic/financial analysisProven ability to analyze, evaluate, and interpret complex data; innate intellectual curiosityStrong project management and organizational skillsStrong communication and presentation skillsHigh comfort level working in high growth / fast paced environment