Job Description

Lowe's Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving more than 18 million customers a week in the United States and Canada. With the fiscal year 2018 sales of $71.3 billion, Lowe's and its related businesses operate or service more than 2,200 home improvement and hardware stores and employ approximately 300,000 associates. Founded in 1946 and based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe's supports its hometown Charlotte region and all communities it serves through programs focused on safe, affordable housing and careers in the skilled trades. For more information, visit Lowes.com
Lowe's India is the retail technology center for Lowe's Companies Inc. and is based out of Bengaluru, India. Set up in 2014, Lowe's India focuses on technology and shared business services. Technology teams support e-commerce, mobile, infrastructure and corporate systems that enable various functions such as supply chain, distribution, corporate services. Initiated with just over 20 associates, Lowe's India now has a growing associate base which employs over 2000 people.
Read more about us at www.lowes.co.in
I. Job Summary:
This role focuses on driving medium-to long term improvements within Vendor Compliance. Functions of the role include generating vendor data analysis, drive Supplier On-time and Fill Rate performance, processing monthly vendor scorecard and chargeback, managing vendor inquiries, and building relationship with vendors and other key cross functional stakeholders within Lowe's.

The successful candidate will be an individual who has the ability to identify and support strategic improvement initiatives for vendor compliance performance, while being able to dive deep into areas of opportunity and develop solutions and processes towards improvements.

II. Roles & Responsibilities:
Core Responsibilities:

• Execute the vendor chargeback process and manage vendor inquiries regarding the same
• Proactively analyze vendor data and identify and address issues
• Liaise between Supply Chain, Operations, Accounting and Merchandising team to resolve vendor issues quickly
• Partners with Merchandising, Supply Chain planning and Replenishment to improve vendor performance and provide teams with data and metrics to ensure vendor performance is considered in business decisions (i.e. Product Line Reviews)
• Prepares management level reports
• Support (Sr.)Analyst with data & reporting

III. Years of Experience
Bachelor's Degree; Business or Related Field plus 1-2 years relevant experience
OR
Relevant work experience in retail merchandising, inventory planning, vendor performance management, assortment planning or forecasting roles for total of 7-year experience in lieu of education

IV. Education Qualification & Certifications (optional)
Required Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree BBA, Bcom, Operations Research or Related Field

V. Skill Set Required
Primary Skills (must have)

• Experience with data analysis and providing insights about the data
• Experience working with Excel and other data/reporting tools
• Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to develop analytical documents for presentation to management
• Excellent problem-solving and time management skills

Secondary Skills (desired)

• Experience in Data mining and visualization tool such as PoweBI, SQL, MS Access, VBA and Excel

Job Category

IND-Merchandising

Employment type

Full time