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IND_Analyst FDS&A

2-5 years

₹ 4.54 - 17.875L/yr (AmbitionBox estimate)

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Bangalore / Bengaluru

1 vacancy

IND_Analyst FDS&A

Lowe's

posted 3d ago

Job Description

About Lowe s
Lowes Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE 50 home improvement company serving approximately 17 million customer transactions a week in the U.S. With total fiscal year 2022 sales of over $97 billion, approximately $92 billion of sales were generated in the U.S., where Lowes operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowes supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts.

About Lowe s India
At Lowes India, we are the enablers who help create an engaging customer experience for our $97 billion home improvement business at Lowes. Our 4000+ associates work across technology, analytics, business operations, finance accounting, product management, and shared services. We leverage new technologies and find innovative methods to ensure that Lowes has a competitive edge in the market.

Job Summary

Lowe s currently undertaking a project to convert many of its vendor partners from Prepaid freight terms to Collect. This means that the control of the freight would move from a vendor to Lowe s managed. This opportunity is both within regular stock product, as well as, Special Order Sales (SOS). There are many benefits to Lowe s when making these transitions:

  • The ability to decouple freight from product cost on Lowes.com, thus making our pricing more competitive on-line.

  • Increased visibility of shipments moving to our RDCs, Stores and customers

  • Increased flexibility to manage inbound freight, including increasing back-haul opportunities into our DCs

  • Lower landed costs, and higher profitability by leveraging our superior freight rates compared to our suppliers.

  • Leveraging increased scale with current carrier base to lower Lowe s overall freight rates, thus making all Lowe s programs more profitable

  • Deleverage our supplier s volume with their shippers, causing their cost to serve their other customers to go up.

There are some benefits to our core carriers:

  • More volume to ship for Lowe s, so more opportunities for continuous moves

  • Opportunity to deliver better rates to Lowe s, thus gaining more Lowe s business

The suppliers do have some benefit as well:

  • They no longer must manage shippers and shipping rates as a part of your profitability

  • Vendor compliance responsibility of product transitions at their dock vs. Lowe s

This position would be part of a larger US based team that will solely focus on attacking this project for both SOS and Stock.

Roles Responsibilities:

Core Responsibilities:

  • The Freight Optimization Specialist (FOS) will be aligned to the Freight Optimization Team and will be responsible helping perform complex analytics that will help the US team negotiate the separation of Freight from cost from the supplier community

  • The FOS must be capable of modeling complex Costing and Margin Impact Scenarios in an Excel Environment using complex Index and VHLookup Formulas, Complex Nested Logic Statements, VBA Coding, and Vast Knowledge of Excel Macro Functions

  • The FOS must have a good understanding for US freight providers. This will allow them to better understand the cost structures of carriers and discount tiers.

  • The FOS must also be able to create tools to systemically remove a vendor s freight from cost to support the negotiation with the vendor to have it taken out. This will include pulling data from multiple locations and systems to generate a new proposed first cost.

Years of Experience:

  • 4+ years of experience in Supply chain Management

  • 3+ years experience in optimization principals, modeling, and tools

  • 3+ years experience in data analytics

  • 3+ years experience of project management

Education Qualification Certifications (optional)

Required Minimum Qualifications:

  • Bachelor s/Master s Degree in Engineering, Logistics, Business, Supply Chain, Operations Management or related discipline

Skill Set Required

Primary Skills (must have)

  • Understanding of US based carriers. Knowledge of transportation freight terms

  • Must have strong analytical skills to create models to remove freight from cost.

  • Strong communication skills, so their analytics can be effectively communicated back to the US team for negotiations.

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

  • Experience in building analytical models, proficient in mathematical and Statistical analysis

  • Experience in or knowledge of Supply Chain Planning and Optimization through use of modeling and simulation tools

  • Working knowledge of Merchandising decision-making tools for Suppliers, Items and Sourcing to include Financial determinations

  • Familiar with Inventory Management, Planning, Forecasting, and Transportation processes and systems

Secondary Skills (desired)

  • Experienced in Python and R


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.


Employment Type: Full Time, Permanent

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