Senior Business Analyst, Analytics

We Go Beyond

At Bed Bath & Beyond, we believe that everyone should "Be You!". Bed Bath & Beyond is a community that upholds a culture of understanding, acceptance, and respect. We believe a person's individuality, traits, beliefs, and characteristics should be valued and embraced. Living by this ethos is essential to the success of our business. Our goal is to foster a more inclusive environment where every employee visibly demonstrates inclusive behaviors and respect for individuals.

Responsibilities

• Use advanced SQL to extract, manipulate, validate, and analyze large and complex retail datasets.
• Analyze sales, demand, inventory, product, category, pricing, and promotional performance.
• Provide ad hoc strategic and tactical analysis to Merchandising and Planning teams.
• Identify trends and opportunities across categories, brands, products, and customer segments.
• Support merchandise planning, forecasting, assortment, and performance measurement.
• Analyze the effectiveness of pricing and promotional strategies.
• Develop and maintain merchandising KPIs, dashboards, and recurring reporting.
• Support business cases for merchandising initiatives and strategic decisions.
• Partner with Merchandising, Planning, Finance, Analytics, Data Engineering, and Technology teams to translate business questions into analytical solutions.
• Understand data pipelines and transformations sufficiently to identify data quality issues and analytical caveats.
• Investigate discrepancies across sales, inventory, product, and financial reporting.
• Clearly communicate analytical findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Required

• 2+ years of relevant analytics, business intelligence, merchandising, or retail experience.
• Strong SQL skills and demonstrated experience querying and analyzing large datasets.
• Experience working with relational databases or cloud data warehouses.
• Strong analytical problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity.
• Ability to recognize trends, correlations, anomalies, and data quality issues.
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to business stakeholders.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Supply Chain, or another quantitative/analytical field, or equivalent experience.

Preferred

• Retail or e-commerce experience.
• Experience supporting Merchandising or Merchandise Planning organizations.
• Understanding of retail concepts such as sales, margin, inventory, sell-through, assortment, pricing, promotions, and product/category performance.
• Experience with merchandise planning, demand planning, forecasting, or inventory analytics.
• Experience analyzing pricing or promotional performance.
• Experience working with product hierarchies and SKU-level data.
• Experience with BigQuery, MicroStrategy, or Python.
• Advanced degree in Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Information Systems, Business, or a related field.

Physical Requirements

• This position requires you to sit, stand and perform general office functions.
• You may also be required to lift up to 25 pounds occasionally.
• Bending, stooping and reaching are also frequently required.