Req ID: 487392
Benefits: * Fuel Your Growth with Love's - company funded tuition assistance * Paid Time Off * 401(k) - 100% Match up to 5% * Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance after 30 days * Competitive Pay * Career Development *
The Lead Category Analyst is responsible for setting the direction, standards, and impact of merchandising analytics at Love's. This role leads a team of analysts and delivers high-impact insights, strategic framing, and execution-ready recommendations that enable data-driven decision making across the merchandising organization
Job Functions:
- Lead the development and delivery of actionable insights that inform pricing, promotion, and category strategy
- Ensure analytics outputs are timely, trusted, and aligned to business priorities across Merchandising, LFK, and Marketing
- Define and standardize performance measurement frameworks for pricing and promotional initiatives
- Guide the design and optimization of pricing and promotional strategies to drive conversion, basket size, and category growth
- Oversee pricing audits, promotional effectiveness analyses, and competitive benchmarking to inform strategic decisions
- Serve as a strategic thought partner to Merchandising and Category leaders
- Influence decision-making by aligning cross-functional stakeholders
- Connect analytics to real-world execution through field engagement and deep understanding of customer behavior and store operations
- Drive clear and consistent communication through executive-ready updates, progress reporting, and project readouts
Experience and Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree required; Master's degree preferred in a quantitative or business-related field (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, MIS, Engineering, MBA)
- 5-8+ years of experience in retail, analytics, data science, or finance
- 2+ years of people leadership or equivalent experience leading projects/team
Skills and Physical Demands:
- Advanced pricing and promotional analytics
- Performance measurement and business impact analysis
- Proficiency with BI and analytical tools (Tableau, Power BI, Sigma, SQL)
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Strong ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights
- Strong stakeholder partnership and influence across cross functional teams
- Clear, concise executive communication and storytelling
- Ownership mindset with strong execution and follow through
- Collaborative, adaptable, and customer focused approach
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and develop junior talent
