Sr. Sales Analyst - Home Depot

## Sr. Sales Analyst
- Home Depot Apply locations:
US
- Georgia
- Atlanta time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
REQ
53886
** Role

Summary:

** The Senior Sales Analyst supports decision intelligence and enablement by transforming data into actionable insights, decision-ready recommendations, and tools that help internal teams and customers make faster, smarter, and more consistent business decisions. This role combines analytics, business storytelling, forecasting, and cross-functional partnership to improve performance, strengthen planning, and enable execution.
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* Duties and Responsibilities:

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* · Collect, integrate, and analyze data to identify trends, patterns, risks, and opportunities that inform business decisions.
· Create and maintain reports, dashboards, and decision-support tools for internal and external teams.
· Assist in short-term sales forecasting and scenario analysis using historical data and business drivers.
· Report on Point of Sale (POS), promotions, assortment, pricing, and category performance to support planning and execution.
· Use visualizations and business storytelling to translate data into clear insights, recommended actions, and measurable outcomes.
· Enable sales, marketing, and cross-functional teams to make faster, more informed, and more consistent decisions through analytics and insights.
· Provide analytical support for internal and external customer meetings, including preparation of insights, recommendations, and follow-up actions.
· Act as a liaison between the business unit and retailer(s), translating business questions into analytical solutions and decision-ready outputs.
· Lead deep-dive analyses to uncover growth opportunities, root causes, and market trends, and recommend actions to improve performance.
· Build predictive models, scenario plans, and decision frameworks for short- and long-term sales planning.
· Present findings, trade-offs, and strategic recommendations to senior leadership and business partners.
· Work closely with marketing, finance, operations, and customer teams to align analytics with business priorities and enable execution.
· Identify process inefficiencies, gaps in data availability, and decision bottlenecks, and recommend improvements that strengthen decision intelligence and business enablement.
· Guide peer analysts, promote analytical best practices, and lead complex projects that improve insight generation and decision effectiveness.
** Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:*
* · Bachelor’s degree with concentration in business, analytics, economics, statistics, or a related field required; master’s degree a plus.
· Minimum 5 years of experience in a data, analytics, business intelligence, or decision support role required. Experience in merchandising, category management, supply chain, or forecasting a plus.
· Exposure to inventory, pricing, sales performance, and retail decision processes.
· Retailer/supplier experience required.
· Strong proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and analytics tools, including Power BI, Advanced Excel, Tableau, and other reporting or business intelligence platforms.
· Ability to pull, blend, transform, and validate data from multiple sources to create trusted, decision-ready information.
· Experience creating visuals and analytical narratives that explain what the data is saying, highlight actionable insights, and support decisions across multiple levels of the organization.
· Advanced skills in retail metrics and business math required.

Experience with predictive modeling, scenario analysis, and prescriptive analytics preferred.
· Experience using AI-enabled tools and automation to enhance analysis, streamline reporting, and improve decision support preferred.
· Ability to frame business questions, evaluate trade-offs, and translate analysis into practical recommendations that enable action.
· Ability to build and foster strong customer and cross-functional partner relationships.
· Excellent written and oral communication skills.
· Strong attention to detail
· Ability to prioritize multiple projects and meet deadlines.
· Ability to work from a DFC location (if within 55 miles from home) Tuesday through…