Associate Analyst

About Lowe's

Lowe's is a FORTUNE 100 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.

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About Lowe's India

Lowe's India, the Global Capability Center of Lowe's Companies Inc., is a hub for driving our technology, business, analytics, and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4,500 associates, it powers innovations across omnichannel retail, AI/ML, enterprise architecture, supply chain, and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform, Lowe's India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and sustainability.

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Job Summary:

The Associate Analyst, Item Integrity is predominantly responsible for proactively monitoring of item sellable status and item health across multiples channels like such as inventory, availability, out of stocks, PO issues, cost/retail support, channel support. The role also executes the merchant facing activities such as brand launches, strategic events etc. around items.

Additionally, it manages enterprise item rationalization which includes assortment clean up and data sanctity.

About the Team:

Enterprise Issue and Support is primarily in charge of proactively monitoring item sellable status and item health across multiple channels such as inventory, availability, out of stock, PO issues, cost/retail support, and channel support. The role also oversees merchant-facing activities such as brand launches, strategic events, and so on. It also manages enterprise item rationalization, which includes collection cleaning and data sanctity.

Roles & Responsibilities: Core Responsibilities:

• Serves as a subject matter expert for all internal or external initiatives regarding Item integrity.
• Assist with troubleshooting & perform root cause analysis on items dropping of site.
• Support product launches by collaborating with operations teams.
• Extend support Tier 1 events.
• Execute all merchant facing activities around item like brand launches. Strategic events etc.
• Executes all formal item lifecycle processes and identifies process improvement opportunities.
• Supports in the execution of efforts to put new processes in place to enhance Lowe's ability to maintain the library and overall health of items.
• Responsible for understanding the merchandising process and causes/reasons for item status changes as well as other actions taken against items related to pricing/markdowns, promotions, inventory availability, and fulfillment.
• Partner with SSC - B (Bangalore) and SSC - M (Mooresville, US) teams.
• Able to create and modify SQL queries.
• Identifying the efficient ways of working and automating the reports.
• Partner with an offshore team to execute item lifecycle management activities.
• Partners with the right teams for any issues needing resolution.
• Ability to deliver right at first time and adapting to the changes.
• Diligently following the process/procedures.
• Ability to learn new skills as per the job requirement and provide innovative solutions to the requirements received.

Years of Experience:

1-2 Years - Experience in product data management or retail industry

Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)

Required Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree

Skill Set Required:

Primary Skills (must have)

• Retail Merchandising / Vendor or Supplier Management.
• Able to create and modify SQL queries.
• Strong Analytical & problem-solving/Troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Process automations & improvement Skills.
• Understanding of merchandising assortment and associated product classifications.
• Online retail experience, working across cross functional teams.
• Understanding of customer experience, listening to customer's voice and work backwards to improve business process and operations.
• Moderate to Advanced Excel and Microsoft Office Applications

Secondary Skills (desired)

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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.