Job Summary
Job Summary:
Serve as the retail business domain expert for data, analytics, AI, and digital transformation initiatives. Drive alignment between merchandising, stores, e-commerce, supply chain, marketing, and data teams to unlock business value through data-driven decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
- Retail domain leadership
- Provide expertise across key retail functions:
- Merchandising
- Category management
- Pricing and promotions
- Store operations
- E-commerce and omnichannel
- Supply chain and inventory management
- Customer loyalty and CRM
- Translate business objectives into data and analytics requirements
- Act as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and data teams
- Data strategy and governance
- Define retail data domains and business ownership
- Establish data standards, business definitions, and governance processes
- Drive data quality initiatives across product, customer, inventory, sales, and supplier data
- Define critical business KPIs and measurement frameworks
- Analytics and insights
- Partner with analytics teams to build actionable dashboards and reporting solutions
- Support customer segmentation and personalization initiatives
- Omnichannel and customer analytics
- Define metrics across:
- Stores
- Mobile applications
- E-commerce platforms
- Marketplaces
- Loyalty programs
- Drive a unified customer view across channels
- Support customer journey and conversion funnel analysis
- Supply chain and inventory analytics
- Define reporting and analytics requirements for:
- Demand forecasting
- Replenishment
- Inventory optimization
- Vendor performance
- Fulfillment operations
- Support initiatives to reduce stock-outs, overstocks, and working capital
- AI and advanced analytics
- Identify AI and GenAI use cases across retail operations
- Guide development of:
- Demand forecasting models
- Recommendation engines
- Dynamic pricing solutions
- Promotion optimization
- Customer churn prediction
- Assortment optimization
- Validate business outcomes and adoption strategies
- Stakeholder management
- Facilitate workshops and business requirement sessions
- Drive cross-functional alignment and prioritization
Skill Requirements
- Retail domain expertise
- 20 years in retail, e-commerce, consumer goods, or omnichannel retail
- Deep understanding of:
- Merchandising
- Category management
- Pricing
- Promotions
- Inventory planning
- Customer loyalty
- Omnichannel operations
- Data and analytics experience
- Experience with:
- Enterprise data platforms
- Data lakes and warehouses
- BI and reporting solutions
- Customer analytics
- Supply chain analytics
- AI and machine learning initiatives
- Strong understanding of retail data models
- Preferred skills
- Business capability
- Data capability
- Data governance
- Data modelling
- Customer loyalty
- SQL and analytics
- Omnichannel operations
- Power BI
- Pricing and promotions
- Cloud data platforms