DICK'S Sporting Goods · 1 month ago
Senior Manager, Analytics - Inventory (REMOTE)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
$95K/yr - $159K/yr
10+ years expDICK’S Sporting Goods is committed to positively impacting lives through sports, and they are seeking a Senior Manager, Analytics – Inventory to leverage data for insights and AI applications. This role focuses on managing inventory analytics, partnering with stakeholders to optimize product offerings, and leading a team to deliver impactful insights that drive strategy and measurement in the inventory space.
Consumer GoodsE-CommerceSporting GoodsSports
Responsibilities
Serve as a strategic advisor to business stakeholders, including executive levels
Help guide and shape strategic business decisions based on data, acting as the translator between data and deep insights from which to drive strategy
Support will include proactive discovery and goal setting, reactive root cause analysis or measurement, and ad hoc support for trend and metric interpretation / definition
As the data expert in the inventory space, this role will partner with Data Engineering teams to design scalable data pipelines and data warehousing solutions, inform data model requirements, and prototype and strategize needed reporting elements
Lead the analytics support for business partners through development of executive-facing deliverables, with succinct storylines and project plans, demonstrating mastery of written and verbal communication
Work with business leaders to develop actionable insights and to translate analytics into meaningful business strategies through storytelling
Manage an ongoing testing portfolio and prioritization for the domain, presenting key findings, testing summary and communication of the testing portfolio to key executives
Test both business strategies and technology improvements to ensure positive business results, guiding cross-functional teams in robust test measurement approaches
Analyze and communicate test results cross-functionally and to leadership to guide investments decisions
Pioneer new data sets and concepts and drive the creation of common metrics with goals and benchmarks for application, further partnering with technology, stakeholders and reporting teams to drive data democratization and usage of metrics across the enterprise to leverage for effective performance tracking
Demonstrate ownership and leadership by personally carrying out advanced data analysis to discover and communicate actionable insights
Leverage common tools and platforms (e.g. SQL, Databricks, GCP, Excel), and/or vendor platforms to query, join, extract, and manipulate raw data from disparate sources to tell a comprehensive story with key insights and recommended actions
Partner with Technology and Data Science teams to develop/manage various models (pricing and promotions econometric models; supply chain and store level allocation optimization) and apply measurement where testing environments are more obscure
Manage a team of analysts, placing each teammate in the best position for them individually, and the team as a whole, to maximize value for the team and organization
Identify teammate strengths and opportunities, providing open and honest feedback on a regular basis, in order to elevate individuals
Develop and coordinate the growth of specialized skills such as analytics, testing, and technological implementation to enable the team to successfully achieve goals
As needed, develop business cases to secure additional resources to meet capacity
May serve as the primary vendor relationship manager for analytical toolsets
Benchmark DICK’S against best-in-class analytics organization to identify strengths and opportunities for DICK’S, keeping up-to-date on current trends in the industry
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent level
Economics, Statistics, Data Science, Liberal Arts or Related Field
10-15 years of experience
SQL, R, Python, experience with BI tools (Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI)
Testing and Optimization Tools
GCP or Azure Experience
3-5 years of managerial experience
Preferred
Master's degree preferred
advanced in SQL, advanced in R and/or Python
experience with BI tools (Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI)
experience in Databricks, GCP or Azure Experience
advanced knowledge of test design, analysis, and best practices. Experience with A/B testing software preferred (APT/MarketDial, etc.)
experience with data model development/design, regression analysis, forecasting and simulations
mastery of written and verbal communication, including Power Point creation, storytelling, and visual
10-15 years of experience, including 5-7 years of Merchant Analytics with experience in Inventory Optimization, Merchandising and Supply Chain experience
Retail (or B2C) strongly preferred
Advanced knowledge of merchant operations and merchant analytics
Prior analytics roles strongly preferred, with robust personal experience leveraging data to drive insights, developing statistical / predictive models and inform strategy
Demonstrated experience developing, deploying and/or applying measurement best practices for model validation and A/B testing, along with other proven analytical frameworks (such as Diff-in-Diff)
Business cases and conducting opportunity sizing
Robust business performance reporting and informing data and reporting requirements
Econometric modeling
Segmentation, clusters, and models (pricing / promotions; forecasting)
Experience in critical thinking within the Merchant Operations space, yielding credibility in analytical and measurement recommendations
Ability to translate customer experience and merchandising needs into inputs to leverage AI to build, test and scale machine learning models
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Company
DICK'S Sporting Goods
Dick's Sporting Goods is an authentic full-line sporting goods retailer offering a broad assortment of brand name sporting goods equipment
10001+ employees
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Funding
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Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.5B2025-06-06Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2022-01-14Post Ipo Debt· $1.5B
2002-10-16IPO
Leadership Team
Edward W. Stack
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
Lauren Hobart
President and CEO; Member of Board of Directors
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