Your Impact
The primary purpose of this role is to translate business problems into analytic designs and perform the quantitative analysis or model building needed to help guide key business decisions. This includes applying knowledge of Lowe's data concepts to the creation of relevant analytic designs and making sound, data-driven business recommendations. This role must follow analytical best practices, analyze and report accurate results, and identify
meaningful insights that directly support decision making.
This role leverages multiple resources, advanced analytic methodologies and data streams to support recommendations for executive level business decisions and their teams. At any given time, this role owns multiple
collaborative projects across Business and Technology teams while working with Directors and Senior Leadership.
With a focus specifically on Digital Analytics Implementation, this role provides advanced data capture capabilities to support complex digital analytics initiatives across multiple Lowe's or Lowe's Digital properties. This role
translates complex business needs to effective digital analytics tagging specifications that provide metrics for analytic solutions across various digital channels. These tagging specifications ensure that data can be translated
to tangible results for Lowe's and Lowe's Digital.
To be successful, the individual in this role must have a deep understanding of analytical techniques and disparate data sources - both internal and external, and strong domain expertise.
Although this role does not manage people directly, the individual in this role spends time developing, training, and reviewing the work of others on the team.
What you will do
- Contributes to or builds project plans, ensuring clear understanding of project requirements and timeline; translates complex business problems into smaller and easier analytical problems
- Communicates project timelines, scope and expectations to stakeholders; plans resources accordingly and communicates roles and responsibilities to stakeholder and project team
- Provides high quality and timely delivery with insights and recommendations.
- Communicates analyses and insights to leaders by summarizing conclusions and solutions; translates analytics and statistics into clear, understandable themes for business leaders; identifies specific analytic results that drive actionable insights
- Utilizes a depth of knowledge on how to best leverage disparate data sources, relevant internal/external data, and strong domain expertise, to deliver on a need of the business
- Serves as thought leader and recommends actions and insights to drive business impact and inform strategic decisions for Director and above
- Collaborates with leadership across functions to understand business needs and deliver cohesive, concise analytics and insights to aid in the determination of ways in which the business can more effectively grow market share
- Mentors/coaches Analysts and Sr Analysts, delegating appropriate work and ensuring that the analyses and insights are accurate, impactful, timely and efficient
- Ensures the appropriate framework for measuring the impact of data analytics function is used where/when appropriate; ensures discussions of impact occur with stakeholders after each project
- Partners with internal development teams to test and deploy new tracking solutions while monitoring and optimizing existing integrations
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Economics, Engineering, Statistics, Data or Information Sciences, or related field (or equivalent work experience in a related field)
• 6 years of related experience (fewer years may be accepted with a Master's or Doctorate degree)• 6 years of experience using analytic tools (e.g., Python, SQL, SAS, R, Adobe, Alteryx, Knime, Aster, Base SAS, SAS Enterprise Miner, Enterprise Guide)• 3 years of experience working with Enterprise level databases (e.g., Hadoop, Teradata, GCP, Azure, Oracle, DB2)• 3 years of experience using enterprise-grade data visualization tools (e.g., MicroStrategy VI, Power BI, Tableau)
• 3 years presenting/communicating analytics results to business partners
• 3 years of experience translating business requirements in analytics models
• Experience working cross-functionally
Preferred Skills/Education• Master's Degree in Business, Engineering, Statistics, Economics or related area• 6 years of experience performing advanced data modeling, data mining and exploratory data analysis (e.g. linear/logistic regression, ARIMA, Cluster Analysis)
• 3 years functional experience performing predictive analytics at a large-scale enterprise
• Experienced with Looker Studio Pro & LookML
• Experience working with big, unstructured data in a retail environment
• Data Science experience using tools such as ML, Text mining
• Project management experience
• Experience in home improvement retail
About Lowe's
Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion, Lowe's operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing, improving community spaces, helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in need. For more information, visit Lowes.com.
Lowe's is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.
