Business Analyst

Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ: SHLD) is a leading integrated retailer focused on seamlessly connecting the digital and physical shopping experiences to serve our members - wherever, whenever and however they want to shop. Sears Holdings is home to Shop Your Way®, a social shopping platform offering members rewards for shopping at Sears and Kmart as well as with other retail partners across categories important to them. The Company operates through its subsidiaries, including Sears, Roebuck

The Business Analyst has strong financial, strategic, operational and leadership skills, and is required to work through ambiguity. The Business Analyst will improve collaboration between buying, strategy, finance, marketing and pricing teams by focusing on data based insights. This will include coordinating with multiple groups in the business unit to identify and prioritize business problems and opportunities and develop robust business hypotheses and analyses. The candidate will prepare recommendations for financial business cases and presentations for senior management. We are looking for individuals who foster teamwork and work well in a collaborative, unstructured and fast paced team environment. Responsibilities include statistical trend analysis, creating and updating forecasts; analyzing and providing recommendations on buying, allocation and pricing. Work on special projects as assigned to support optimization of operational drivers. It is expected that the Analyst will work with their Director to act as a thought partner with business partners throughout the organization to better understand how business analytics can improve performance and to lead or collaborate on the initiatives that may result.

* Identify, size and prioritize business opportunities for improvement through analytics * Partner with other teams such as Marketing, Finance and Pricing to understand, prioritize and execute business needs and provide necessary support * Leading trend analysis, forecasting and simulation efforts on financials and other operational measures * Gather data, apply rigorous analysis methods, and synthesize conclusions into recommendations for business partners * Execute concise and actionable business reporting with actionable insights * Develop, maintain and enhance statistical models to help generate profitable incremental sales and margin through marketing strategies and tactics * Prepare documentation for developed analysis support for business strategies * Work on ad hoc requests and projects for senior management and business units * Prepares business case for new initiatives and/or capital investments * Flexible in responding to organizational changes and business priorities * Leads special projects where needed

* Bachelor’s degree in a business related major * Must enjoy gathering and digging deep into data to identify issues and solve problems * High level of experience with Excel and SQL; R, SAS and Python is a plus * Strong business acumen: Strong financial, strategic, operational and leadership skills; ability to grasp understanding of business models and key drivers quickly * Experience of navigating large organizations and executing/delivering in a matrix structure * Experience driving actions through data and insights * Self-starter who can work independently through ambiguity * Ability to manage and lead complex analytical projects including demonstrated ability to interpret and communicate detailed quantitative data * Ability to manage multiple projects at one time and meet tight deadlines * Flexibility and ability to adapt to rapidly changing marketplace * Exceptional problem solving abilities and experience synthesizing disparate and sometimes contradictory data. * Demonstrated ability to develop and apply information-driven analytic and quantitative approaches to solving complex business issues in a practical manner – with tangible results * Strong verbal and written communication skills across all levels of the organization and company * Experience in retail is not required but preferred