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 grow 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 supports the President of Online and 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 relationships within and outside of the Online organization to support those efforts.
The Analyst is a key member of the Interconnected Strategy team. Working with team leadership, the Analyst is heavily involved with research, analysis, and materials creation that are critical to defining and executing THD’s interconnected strategy. In this role, the 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). The Analyst will help support the annual strategic planning process, assist in aligning key stakeholders on strategic priorities, and source internal data to drive decision-making. They will work closely with internal partners to understand pain points and synthesize information from multiple groups to identify broader operational and strategic opportunities.
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 sources
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
Reports to Manager, Interconnected Strategy
No direct reports, however, the position will be required to mentor others who have the need for assistance
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:
Background in one of the following areas: corporate or business unit strategy formulation, strategic finance and planning, ecommerce business operations
Strong skills in quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and strategic problem solving; innate intellectual curiosity
Strong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership
Strong interpersonal and relationship building skills
Ability to manage cross-functional partnerships
High comfort level with ambiguity and working in high growth / fast paced environment
High degree of confidentiality and professionalism
Minimum Education:
The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a high school diploma and/or GED.
Preferred Education:
Preferred completion of a Bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
2
Competencies:
Strong technical abilities including model building and accessing, structuring and analyzing data
Proven ability to solve problems and perform strategic/financial analysis
Proven ability to analyze, evaluate, and interpret complex data; innate intellectual curiosity
Strong project management and organizational skills
Strong communication and presentation skills
High comfort level working in high growth / fast paced environment