Senior Analyst - Cost & FCO

About Lowe’s
Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where 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 and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

About Lowe’s India
At Lowe’s India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowe’s. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance & accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowe’s has a competitive edge in the market.

The Senior Analyst will be required to partner with US counterparts to develop and drive analysis in the areas of Cost & FCO. Candidate should have knowledge and hands on experience to play the following role:

• Cost Optimization by evaluating First Cost and other landing cost

• Help analyze impact of tariff and commodity prices on product cost

• Provide insights and recommendations to business for driving better negotiations with vendors

• Competitive Intelligence to the negotiation team

• Hands on knowledge on product clustering and segmentation to evaluate similar items along with Parent SKU

• Hands on knowledge on various forecasting techniques e.g. Time Series, Regression etc.

• Help with changes in reports and other modifications including conducting ad hoc analysis and reports building as per business needs

• Ensure on time and accurate delivery of all cost related requests

• Be a go-to point for all data and insights needs for the business.

• Ability to present insights rather than providing numbers to business.

• Communicate independently and effectively with stakeholders on scope of project, presenting results, reconciliation of data etc.

• Pursues self-development and effective relationships with team members and partners

Qualifications & Qualities:

• Graduate or Post-graduate (MBA Finance Or degree in quantitative fields like Finance, Economics, Mathematics, Statistics)

• 3-6 years of experience with 1-2 years with a Retail business

• Understanding of retail business particularly in area of Product Sourcing, Cost and Pricing

• Experience of working on vendor cost management, price negotiation insights will be preferred

• Intermediate data collection, collation and cleansing skills using tools like SQL, SAS or other tools like R, Python

• Strong knowledge of advanced MS Excel & VBA

• Knowledge of any one of the data visualization tools like MicroStrategy, Power BI

• Strong independent ownership and drive to make sure projects/deliverables are pushed through

• Strong communication skills – being able to manage upward, peers and offshore teams. Being able to translate business requirements to actionable deliverables

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.