Manager Competitive Intelligence

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Your Impact

The Manager Competitive Intelligence purpose is to design develop and maintain competitive intelligence data collection and analytics capabilities that support Lowes enterprise Competitive Intelligence strategy. Positioned at the intersection of data infrastructure and business value this role owns the strategy for standards governance datasets pipelines and analytical methodologies. The Manager will collaborate with Merchandising leadership and Merchants Pricing Business Partner and Strategy teams Category Management Digital Marketplace and Product to define matching and/or crawling requirements and translate business needs into scalable matching capabilities. This role leads teams in leveraging data to generate insights that inform business decisions and policy development and is responsible for advancing Lowes analytics capabilities.

What You Will Do

• Support Lowes enterprise Competitive Intelligence objectives by driving strategy development and execution planning including but not limited to developing and maintaining enterprise matching and/or scraping strategy.
• Manage strategic projects and priorities across multiple enterprise domain requirements simultaneously.
• Establish scalable efficient processes for model development validation implementation monitoring analysis and continuous improvement consolidating business requirements to drive accountability for technical deliveries.
• Partner cross functionally to define final attributes comparison criteria exclusions confidence thresholds and similarity levels by category and use case develop matching approach that meets enterprise needs establish quality control measures validation methodologies and ongoing governance and maintenance controls.
• Establish enterprise standards for match creation approval audit and rejection including defining decision rights for AI agents CI team and domain experts and escalation processes.
• Partner with Product Engineering Data Science and Technology teams to develop automated and AI-enabled matching capabilities.
• Prioritize enhancements based on business value category complexity match opportunity and operational effort.
• Distill insights from data leveraging advanced analytics tools and techniques to build models and scenarios to inform business decisions and answer key questions.
• Set objectives key results and metrics for Competitive Intelligence capabilities.
• May lead develop and engage a small team support their professional growth and refine their analytical skills. May set performance goals and provide feedback coaching and development to team members in order to recognize achievements and address areas for improvement.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelors degree Business Administration Merchandising Statistics Economics Data Analytics Computer Science or related field or equivalent years of experience in lieu of education requirement if applicable
• 7 years of experience in Pricing Merchandising Finance Competitive Intelligence Business Intelligence Analytics Project Management Product Management or related field
• Experience partnering with Product Data Science Engineering or Technology teams to design test implement or scale advanced analytics machine-learning or AI-enabled capabilities
• Experience developing business rules quality standards governance processes or analytical methodologies
• Familiarity with SQL data collection classification data validation tools pipelines dashboards and UIs
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills with the ability to translate complex technical concepts into easily interpretable material for business stakeholders and articulate analytical findings in a clear and compelling manner
• Demonstrated ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships and collaborate effectively across technical and business teams
• Experience working in a fast-paced evolving environment effectively managing changing business priorities operational change and continuous improvement initiatives
• Strong data-driven judgment: defining metrics analyzing product/customer data running experiments and making clear tradeoffs

Preferred Skills/Education

• Masters degree Business Administration Statistics Economics Data Analytics or related field
• Experience working closely with senior leadership (VP and above)
• Experience designing building testing deploying and scaling AI-powered tools and processes
• Experience in a large retailer marketplace pricing provider digital-shelf provider or competitive data organization
• Experience with machine learning natural-language processing image matching embeddings similarity models AI-enabled matching or other AI-led workflows

About Lowes

Lowes Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 100 home improvement company with total fiscal year 2025 sales of more than$86 billion. Lowes employs approximately 300000 associates and operates over 1750 home improvement stores 540 branches and 120 distribution centers. Lowes is a core value S&P 500 equity stock and a dividend aristocrat. Based inMooresville 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 need. For more information visit.

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.