Analyst

Innovate in Bengaluru

This position is based at our on-site office in Bengaluru. Lowes offers an ultramodern work environment complete with cutting-edge technology collaborative workspaces an on-site gym and clinic and other perks to enhance your work experience.

About Lowes

Lowes is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2024 sales of more than $83 billion Lowes operates over 1700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300000 associates. Based in Mooresville N.C. Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe affordable housing improving community spaces helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts and providing disaster relief to communities in more information visit

Lowes India the Global Capability Center of Lowes Companies Inc. is a hub for driving our technology business analytics and shared services strategy. Based in Bengaluru with over 4500 associates it powers innovations across omnichannel retail AI/ML enterprise architecture supply chain and customer experience. From supporting and launching homegrown solutions to fostering innovation through its Catalyze platform Lowes India plays a pivotal role in transforming home improvement retail while upholding strong commitment to social impact and more information visit Lowes India

About the Team

The Merchandising Analysts team partners with U.S. Merchants to enable data-driven category decisions that drive sales margin inventory productivity and omni-channel execution excellence. The team serves as the analytical engine supporting category strategy product line reviews vendor negotiations inventory optimization product setup governance and cross-functional issue resolution across stores and online.

This team is a critical bridge between Merchandising Inventory Planning Supply Chain Stores Online Finance and Vendor partners to ensure accurate execution of product cost promotional and stocking strategies.

Job Summary:

The Merchandising Analyst supports the U.S.-based Merchant team and plays a critical role in executing system-driven vendor and item setup processes ensuring timely and accurate onboarding for both core and online-only assortments.

This role requires close collaboration with U.S. Merchants to understand category-specific online promotional calendars strategies and business priorities. The Merchandising Analyst partners with vendors to plan and execute item-level promotions aligned with event strategies ensuring achievement of margin expectations and promotional depth targets.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

Category & Business Insights

• Support Merchants in evaluating opportunities to drive incremental revenue and margin improvement.
• Develop presentations and analytical insights for merchants and vendors to support strategic planning vendor negotiations and execution of merchandising initiatives.
• Provide actionable insights on category performance vendor economics promotional effectiveness and assortment productivity.
• Deliver weekly reporting to the Merchant team including sales margin and inventory productivity across category hierarchies.

Vendor and cross functional stakeholder management

• Initiate vendor and item setup activities based on inputs from the U.S. Merchant team
• Conduct freight analysis to support 2P/3P channel decisions.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to resolve vendor or product-related issues impacting availability or performance including tracking and closure of tickets.
• Support Merchants in vendor negotiations by ensuring cost justification documentation is complete validated and submitted to relevant stakeholders.

Omni Execution of Products/Items

• Collaborate with SSC merchandising teams to understand the online promotional calendar and event requirements.
• Engage with vendors to source online promotional items and ensure alignment with event strategies including margin and promotional depth targets.
• Ensure featured deals are accurately set up vendor-funded where applicable and meet profitability expectations.
• Review and validate proforma documents vendor agreements buying terms and allowances for accuracy and compliance.
• Partner with vendors to ensure omni-channel readiness including product attributes images descriptions and digital content.
• Manage and validate cost changes to ensure alignment with margin expectations and profitability guardrails.
• Maintain accuracy and integrity of product data including cost vendor agreements and stocking information.

Years of Experience:

• Minimum 2 years of experience retail / merchandising

Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)

Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Graduate/Bachelors Degree - in business marketing finance statistics or related field ( / BBM / MBA / Retail Operations Management)

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have)

• Experience working with merchants vendors e-commerce vendor and item lifecycle management pricing / promotion management category management.
• Understanding of retail financials (sales margin inventory productivity vendor economics)
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Strong project and process management skills
• Proficient in - Excel PowerPoint and Word Data analysis

Secondary Skills (desired)

• SQL Power Query Power BI Data visualization

Lowes is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race color religious creed sex gender age ancestry national origin mental or physical disability or medical condition sexual orientation gender identity or expression marital status military or veteran status genetic information or any other category protected under federal state or local law.