Position Purpose:

Home Depot is the world's #1 home improvement retailer with over $150B in annual sales. Over $20Bof these sales come from our market-leading interconnected customer experiences, which combine cutting edge ecommerce capabilities with trusted value of our 2,000+ stores and 500,000+ associates.

Home Depot's Interconnected Experience is a key enabler of our ability to grown and gain market share in any macroeconomic environment. Delivering a best-in-world interconnected retail experience for Pros and Consumers is one of Home Depot's top strategic priorities, requiring the establishment of clear strategic direction to support cross-functional alignment and organizational investment.

The Interconnected Strategy team is responsible for the development and execution of Home Depot's overall interconnected and online business strategy. This includes identifying top opportunities based on market dynamics, developing efforts to address those opportunities, and ensuring adequate internal resourcing + building external relationships to support those efforts. Partnering with internal business partners, will aim to understand existing operations to assess or implement potential changes and refinements. This effort is complemented by external research focused on market trends, customer behavior, and competitor actions, enabling to better tailor our recommendations. Finally, Managers create materials and presentations to effectively communicate frameworks, problem framing, strategies and insights to senior leaders.

The Manager is a key member of the Interconnected Strategy team, leading discrete strategic projects or workstreams in larger projects, serving as a thought-partner throughout the online organization, and guiding the work of Analysts / Sr. Analysts. By developing expertise in all elements of online retail (e.g., market and customer dynamics; competitive landscape; technology trends; category, pricing, social and mobile strategies; interconnected and fulfillment operations), the Manager of Interconnected Strategy has the opportunity to influence change from within one of the world's leading retailers.

Key Responsibilities:

• 10% Develop expertise and become the go-to expert on key competitors and market trends; own regular reporting on one or more data sources

• 20% Lead one or more workstreams in the strategic and operational planning cycle

• 70% Analyzes business problems, structures the issue and prioritizes analyses, performs analyses, synthesizes data to develop a solution, creates documents communicating solution using structured communications principles, presents solution to team and stakeholders, works with stakeholders to implement the solution.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to the Sr Director

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

• No travel required

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous work experience in either world-class retail / ecommerce or in professional services (e.g., strategy consulting, private equity, or investment banking) supporting such retail / ecommerce businesses

• MBA / Masters degree

• Minimum of 4+ years of relevant work experience required

• Broad exposure to Tech-Media-Telecom sector

• Strong skills in quantitative analysis, qualitative analysis and strategic problem solving

• Strong presentation skills and ability to communicate effectively with senior leadership

• Strong interpersonal skills

• Ability to lead and manage cross-functionally

• High degree of drive and personal ownership

• Comfort with framing and addressing ambiguous challenges

• High degree of confidentiality and professionalism

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 6

Competencies:

• Decision Quality

• Collaborates

• Drives Engagement

• Ensures Accountability

• Plans and Aligns

• Communicates Effectively

• Customer Focus

• Develops Talent

• Manages Conflict

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $0.00 - $0.00