Lowe's Business Sales Analyst - MasterBrand Cabinets LLC

For nearly 70 years, MasterBrand has been shaping the places where people come together, enriching lives and creating meaningful memories for our customers. That, combined with our stylish products, expansive dealer and retail network, and dedicated associates, has helped make us the number one North American residential cabinet business. Our unique culture of continuous improvement is based on trusting the tools, empowering the team and moving forward, and is kept alive by our more than 14,000 associates across 20 plus manufacturing facility and offices. Visit www.masterbrand.com to learn more and join us in building great experiences together! 

The Lowe’s Business Sales Analyst is responsible for developing and executing data analysis and providing insights for the Commercial Home Center team that supports MBC corporate and team strategies to drive profitable growth and increase market share.  This role will support activities related to sales functions for our MBC businesses and sales channels for the Lowe’s account. This includes the development and execution of new and improved dashboards, presentation creation, analysis, business insights, forecasting support, and tactical preparation related to customer programs, meetings, calls and events, as well as utilizing internal MasterBrand Cabinets dashboards and reports.

This role is very collaborative, working directly with our MBC account team leaders and MBC cross functional teams, to include exposure to our customer. As the Lowe’s account team business analyst, you will leverage your data analytics skills to translate business questions into actionable insights, support ongoing data needs, design tools to facilitate data-driven decisions and deliver high quality analytical solutions.

Organizational Relationship
This position reports directly to the Senior Manager of Forecasting and Data Analysis for Lowe’s account team.

Accountabilities

• Utilize, develop and implement retail dashboards and provide business insights to support strategies relative to the Lowe’s account.
• Identify opportunities from within the existing MasterBrand line that will achieve the "best practice" scenario and recommended additions that will result in market share gains.
• Supporting VP and Directors with relationships at the Merchant level and beyond through providing strategic business analysis to create and enhance the partnership across all MBC stock, MTO, PRO, and online businesses at Lowe’s.
• Provide analysis to assist direct manager with demand and forecasting across all channels as needed.
• Assist in development of annual budgets, profitability and sales action plans; monitor results vs. plan throughout the year, and provide data analysis and insights to support adjusting strategy when appropriate.
• Learn the business, execute our strategies and partner with Lowe’s on their objectives, needs, and strategies to create win-win solutions. Use analytical skills and expertise to build the MasterBrand business within the channel.
• Learn and support Category Management with analysis and insights to drive Fact-Based Selling concepts to strengthen existing business and gain new opportunities.
• Assist with the creation of presentations.
• Create dashboards and provided analysis for new products, promotions, and trends.
• Create and maintain promotional tracker.
• Perform other duties as may be assigned at management’s discretion.
• Provide summaries of customer meetings, status on current programs, and outlook on future opportunities.
• 70% Data Analytics and Insights, 20% Management of Data & Data Validation, 10% Technical Learning – keeping up with industry trends, best practices, new tools, and emerging methodologies.)
• Travel as business needs require, estimated <10%.

Characteristics & Attributes

• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills
• Strong business acumen
• Strong team orientation
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams without formal authority through data and insights
• Detail oriented; thorough
• Comfortable with change
• Ability to manage multiple projects
• Ability to create, communicate, and implement strategies
• Desire to drive continuous improvement/ Change Agent

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, data Analytics/business Intelligence, or a related field is required.
• Background or experience with lean tools is recommended.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite, Tableau, Power BI, and exposure to Qlik Sense.
• 2-4 years of relevant work experience, preferably in big box retail.
• Exposure to statistics, trend modeling, predictive modeling.

Equal Employment Opportunity
MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is an equal opportunity employer. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability/handicap status, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, genetic history or information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. MasterBrand Cabinets LLC also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also MasterBrand Cabinets LLC’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.

Reasonable Accommodations
MasterBrand Cabinets LLC is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you have a disability and wish to discuss potential accommodations related to applying for employment, please contact us at staffing@masterbrand.com.

*Actual pay will vary based on qualifications and other factors