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Senior Analyst, Assortment Planning
The Home Depot
STORE SUPPORT CENTER, ATLANTA - 9090
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Position Purpose:
The Senior Analyst, Assortment Planning serves as a subject matter expert and strategic advisor to the Merchandising Organization, providing analytical insights, project leadership, and assortment planning expertise to support category decisions.
This role is responsible for leading category business reviews, including Rapid Business Reviews, Product Line Reviews (PLRs), Quick Hits, and Post Reset Reviews, for assigned departments and is viewed by merchants as a trusted partner in developing and executing category and assortment strategies. The Senior Analyst champions assortment planning best practices, delivers data-driven recommendations, and drives initiatives that optimize category performance across the portfolio.
Key Responsibilities:
- 90% Work in collaboration with Merchants to determine category review goals and objectives, conduct standard and ad hoc analysis to identify key drivers of performance, recommend assortment decisions that will improve category performance and develop financial plans that reflect category changes. Typical analysis will include: (a) marketplace and macroeconomic trends impacting the category including competitive assessment, (b) vendor portfolio strengths and weaknesses including private brand, (c) line structure, (d) store clustering, (e) customer and store feedback, (f) identifying key product attributes and (g) regional performance. Develop executive-level presentations that summarize analysis including historical category performance, strategic rationale underpinning assortment decisions and expected financial impact. Report out to all levels of management. Accountable for accuracy, thoroughness, thought process, timeliness and viability of recommendations.