Analyst Item Master Data

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Education:

• Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study or equivalent years of related work experience required.

Work Experiences:

• 5+ years systems/process analyst or related analytical work experience required.

Skills:

• Excellent interpersonal written, verbal communication and presentation skills, with the ability to interface effectively with individuals at various levels.
• Strong analytical skills, with strong problem-solving abilities and creative resolution skills.
• Effective time management skills with the ability to effectively prioritize workload in a fast paced, frequently changing environment while remaining detailed and organized.
• Ability to elicit requests from business teams and translate into functional requirements for business rules and/or system enhancements.
• Strong business acumen with fluency in merchandising processes, KPI's, and retail math coupled with an understanding of how system tools are interconnected and work.
• Maintain the customer's perspective as a driving force behind business decisions and activities.
• Ability to build and establish good interpersonal relationships with internal and external partners to support business needs.
• Responds positively to change, embracing and using new practices or values to accomplish goals and solve problems.
• Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
• Solid proficiency with MS-Excel and other Microsoft Office Suite tools.

Responsibilities:

• Works with merchant and eCommerce teams to ensure item definition and enrichment follows MDM strategies.
• Interprets and executes item definition/enrichment needs based on raw information provided by vendors and/or merchant teams. Maintains and evangelizes business rules documentation.
• Regularly reviews and enforces data quality and accountability across item creation and enrichment phases. Report/identify/track issues and work with merchants and eCom to resolve.
• Works with vendors and 3rd-party services to enforce standards and timeliness for item dimension data.
• Elicits requirements from merchants and eCom team and documents as part of centralized repository of data standards.

• Contribute to the design, development, and enhancements of reporting for the supporting business units.

• Work with business teams to coordinate operational processes for unplanned events and special projects to react to business.
• Develop an understanding of merchandising concepts and system integration and makes critical business process and system design decisions to pursue timely completion of business initiatives to improve accuracy, measure improvement and/or add efficiencies to processes and systems as per business requirement.
• Work with Training Dept to develop curriculum and/or execute end user training.
• Develops, champions, and administers policies to govern processes related to methods and system change requests for designated business area.
• May perform operational execution of sku creation for key business areas or special projects.

Physical Requirements & Attendance

• Acceptable level of hearing and vision to perform job duties
• Adhere to company work hours, policies, procedures and rules governing professional staff behavior.

Academy is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate with regard to employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by law.