Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

In this role, you will identify and communicate analytics related to optimizing cost of goods and other Private Brand metrics

What You’ll Do

• Conduct analysis, determine insights and collaborate with different stakeholders

• Examine large data sets to identify trends, develop charts and create visual presentations to help businesses make more strategic decisions

• Leverage a suite of analytics tools to analyze data including spend and product cost in order to identify spend optimization, cost reduction opportunities and other key metrics

• Maintain Sourcing Optimizing tools and models

• Support the Senior Sourcing Analytics Analyst in identifying key insights from analyses, cutting through large amounts of data to quickly identify trends and implications

• Provide analysis to inform insights, reporting on findings and using analyses to help Sourcing prepare for critical vendor negotiations and overall company decision-making initiatives

• Support Global Sourcing Product Services teams in initiatives by providing data, analysis and reporting

• Track and report on macro commodity trends

• Extract, clean and prepare data 

• Spreadsheet tool development and management

• Summarize data and insights in a compelling, visual format 

• Build and maintain data visualization dashboards in Qlik

• Leverage AI and other technology levers to provide data driven analytics and insights

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Analytics, Finance or other quantitative field 

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and the ability to translate analysis into insights

Preferred

• 2+ years of analytics and insights experience, particularly:

• Advanced skills in Excel, Google Sheets

• Experience building dashboards and reports using Business Intelligence tools (ex: Tableau, Qlik)

• Experience using SQL to query data in a data warehouse (ex: Teradata, BigQuery)

• Experience with purchasing or supply chain management in the apparel / home goods industry and/or retail knowledge

• Experience presenting complex data analyses

• Experience w/PLM, including Sourcing Optimization tool experience

• Modeling experience

• Alteryx programming skills

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner