Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Bob's Discount Furniture is an omni-channel furniture retailer. The Senior Analyst, Assortment owns the analytical framework for assortment planning, productivity measurement, rationalization, and new item performance. The role delivers executive-ready recommendations, partners with Merchants and Planners, improves forecasting, and provides technical guidance to junior analysts.
Responsibilities
- Own assortment productivity reporting: design, own, and continuously improve SKU and category-level reporting covering velocity, sell-through, margin contribution, and inventory productivity; establish the definitions and data lineage the organization plans against
- Lead rationalization analysis: own the analytical case for tail SKU exit, consolidation, and transition; quantify the sales, margin, and productivity impact and present recommendations directly to Merchant and Planning leadership
- Own depth and breadth methodology: build and maintain the models that determine how deeply the business invests in individual items and programs, including price point coverage and good-better-best architecture
- Size the whitespace opportunity: lead market, consumer, and competitive analysis that identifies assortment gaps, quantifies the opportunity, and informs line review strategy
- Set analytical standards: define the methodology, assumptions, and QA standards used across assortment analytics, and review the work of junior analysts for accuracy and rigor
- Own launch scorecards: build and own pre- and post-launch performance scorecards; diagnose forecast variance and translate the findings into forward-looking assumptions
- Own transition analytics: lead item transition and end-of-life analysis to ensure clean exits, protected margin, and minimal residual inventory exposure
- Improve forecast accuracy: partner with Demand Planning to refine new item forecast methodology using post-launch performance and read-and-react learning
- Deliver executive-ready analytics: produce assortment reporting on an established cadence and translate it into a clear point of view for senior leadership, not just a set of numbers
- Advise Merchants and Planners: act as the analytical partner of record for assigned categories, shaping the question as often as answering it and challenging assumptions where the data warrants
- Lead complex ad hoc analysis: scope, structure, and deliver the ambiguous, high-stakes analysis behind in-season decisions and line review preparation
- Build scalable tooling: automate recurring analysis and move the team toward self-service reporting so analytical capacity shifts from production to interpretation
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Statistics, or a related field
- 4–7 years of analytical experience, with demonstrated depth in retail merchandising, planning, or analytics
- Advanced Excel skills, including multi-variable modeling, large dataset handling, and building tools other people rely on
- Proficiency in SQL, including the ability to independently source, join, and validate data across systems
- Demonstrated ability to work independently in ambiguous situations and structure analysis without direction
- Strong communication and storytelling skills, with experience presenting analysis and recommendations to senior leadership
- Experience mentoring analysts or reviewing analytical work for quality
- Proficiency in Power BI, Tableau, or comparable visualization tools, including dashboard design
- Furniture, home, or big-ticket retail experience
- Hands-on experience with assortment planning or demand planning systems (e.g., Logility, o9, Blue Yonder)
- Exposure to Python, R, or comparable tooling for advanced analysis
Benefits
- Nationally provided Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Paid Vacation, Personal Days, Sick Days, Holidays, work anniversary and your Birthday
- 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan with a Generous Company match
- Pet Insurance
- Employer-paid basic Life Insurance, with the option to add Voluntary Life Insurance
- Financial Planning, Voluntary Legal Benefits and Wellness Plans
- Generous Employee Discount starting on your 1st day
- Additional Employee Discounts through the “Hays Perks discount program” offering hundreds of online discounts from your favorite merchants.
- Exceptional opportunities for career growth
- Professional Development: In-person, virtually and an infinite library of on-demand classes in Workday Learning
- Tuition Reimbursement
- BDF Education Foundation Scholarship Program open to employees and their dependents
- Robust succession planning to ensure that team members have the opportunity to advance their careers
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