Senior Manager, Productivity Enablement

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

The primary purpose of this role is to drive enterprise productivity, and improvement of operating income by enabling business leaders in the identification of operating expense reduction initiatives and facilitating the realization of those opportunities.

This includes 1) Partnering with functional leaders to deliver insightful and proactive financial analysis that drive fact based, data driven identification of productivity initiatives 2) leveraging proven frameworks to guide business functions to create well-organized business plans and monitoring the progress and pace of value realization 3) sizing, modeling, and prioritizing productivity initiatives.

Successful candidate will be a creative thinker, with a strong financial, technical, and business acumen, along with the ability to collaborate effectively across the Enterprise.

This individual will be responsible for staying current on technology advancements in the AI.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Identify and propose potential areas for cost-out opportunities across the enterprise through data based, business contextual financial assessments/deep dives.

• Facilitate the alignment of productivity initiatives before, during, and after initiatives completion

• Work with key stakeholders to identify internal and external resources necessary to achieve the benefits of the initiative.

• Design, develop deliver insightful financial assessments with focus on productivity

• Assess, report, and escalate critical risks that may negatively impact productivity initiatives.

• Ensure business cases justify productivity initiatives, outline benefits, and value. Contribute appropriate knowledge expertise to the development of the business cases and benefits.

• Lead collaboratively with initiative owners to establish robust value realization measures for planned benefits within the productivity initiatives they manage.

• Support key financial and business processes (Annual/Strategic Plan, Forecast, etc.) from a productivity target setting perspective

• Oversee, monitor, and track the overall productivity portfolio value realization metrics and targets via scorecards.

• Work cross-functionally with peers and senior leaders to negotiate and remove execution related barriers.

• Manage work products of direct reports; create a high-performance team culture focused on attracting, developing, and placing great talent; foster a culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency.

• Plan and advocate for needed team resources; attract top talent from inside and outside of the company.

Education

Required : Bachelor s Degree -> Business Administration, Management, Finance, or a similar field

Preferred : Master s Degree -> Business Administration, Management, Finance, or a similar field

Years of Experience

Required (must have) :

10+ years experience in a finance or analytical role

3+ years experience in strategic and financial modeling

5+ years experience in interpreting large and complex datasets and conveying findings in a simple and concise way

3+ years experience leading people directly or indirectly

3+ years experience with analytical tools and programming languages like SQL, Python, R or SAS

5+ years demonstrated experience with data analysis including business case development and measuring of operational and financial benefits

3+ years experience with visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, MicroStrategy, Power BI, etc.) is desirable

Preferred

3+ years of experience performing advanced data modeling, data mining and exploratory data analysis (e.g., linear/logistic regression, ARIMA, Cluster Analysis)

3+ years experience in retail or supply chain operations

3+ years experience with business intelligence and reporting tools (MicroStrategy, IBM Cognos, Hyperion/Essbase, Teradata)

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.