The Sr. Business Analyst contributes in a lead role to the Sustainability Sr. Management team by evaluating, designing, developing, and implementing standardized reporting, business processes, and information systems solutions. This role leads end to end project management activities from inception through completion, including key initiatives such as the Annual Wood Survey and the Lacey Act Compliance Program.

The Sr. Business Analyst holds primary responsibility for the development and maintenance of business strategies, performance dashboards, and reporting for projects, initiatives, programs, and/or categories. Acting as a strategic thought partner, this role supports decision making on complex business issues, develops and tracks category and program performance, and monitors internal and external trends.

Success in this role requires high levels of communication and collaboration with suppliers and cross functional THD partners, ensuring alignment, compliance, transparency, and effective execution across merchandising, supply chain, legal, and other key functions.

Key Responsibilities:

• 50% Lead all phases of a project's life cycle including defining the business need, establishing criteria and business requirements, understanding the impact to the business and designing and rolling out the project
• 25% Serve as a subject matter expert and perform research and/or analysis within assigned projects or category of business
• 25% Establish and report on metrics of assigned projects or categories to gauge business value

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.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of Google BigQuery to support data pulls, validation, and analysis
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel, including formulas, pivot tables, and data reconciliation
• Proficient in Microsoft PowerPoint for creating clear, well-structured presentations and summaries
• Experience supporting project management activities, including tracking timelines, deliverables, and dependencies
• Highly detail-oriented with strong data accuracy, documentation, and follow-through skills
• Ability to collaborate effectively with suppliers and cross-functional Home Depot partners

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:

• 3

Competencies:

• Strong project management skills, including strong process orientation, ability to work and lead cross functional teams, strategic thinking and creative problem solving skills.
• Analytical; Extensive knowledge of statistical methods and modeling
• Ability to establish priorities and procedures for accomplishing work within established deadlines; ability to lead multiple projects and manage toward deadlines and deliverables
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including ability to interact at Officer level; ability to negotiate and persuade
• Proven success in increasing management roles handling multiple projects with competing deadlines.
• Ability to assimilate extensive amounts of detailed data, analyze and summarize vast amounts of information as well as understand all of the detail supporting the analysis.