Job Description

Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future visa sponsorship.

General Summary:

The AP Product Protection Analyst supports Shrink improvement through defensive merchandising and product protection initiatives for Family Dollar. The analyst is expected to coordinate with internal AP leaders, outside vendors, and merchandising partners to design, test, and implement solutions to help reduce shrink. The analyst will work with large data sets to isolate trends and business opportunities to build solutions and recommendations to drive performance improvement.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

• Conduct in-depth analysis using data collected & combined from multiple data sources to provide actionable recommendations for product protection & defensive merchandising opportunities
• Responsible for developing and delivering effective presentations and reporting solutions for AP, operational & merchant leaders
• Responsible for identifying opportunities and coordinating projects across Asset Protection teams, vendors and merchants.
• Deliver reporting for weekly & monthly basis covering on-going performance.
• Support ad hoc data and analysis requests from leadership teams in Ops/AP/merchandising departments.
• Regularly coordinate with field AP team to review exceptions, set up new and follow up on existing tests.
• Support allocation and distribution of product protection supplies and equipment to all stores.

Major Tasks & Responsibilities

• Perform data gathering tasks and analytics
• Identify trends, develop solutions, project planning and data analysis
• Produce weekly/monthly project updates including major task/milestone reporting as well as financial updates
• Deliver presentations to teams and executive leaders and sponsors.
• Synthesize findings and make recommendations to upper management.
• Seek continuous improvement in all project implementations & reporting to fine tune action items
• Routinely work with Merchants and attend Merchant Meetings to ensure Asset Protection is aware of initiatives, key changes, and provide value add input.
• Manage product protection invoice submission and budget tracking to ensure projects are completed on budget.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, and 2-4 years’ experience in analytical role, project management, or data entry.
• Strong project management and technical skills (PMP, Excel & PowerPoint)
• Experience leveraging business intelligence/query tools (SQL, MicroStrategy, Business Objects, APT, and Power BI)
• Strong analytical problem solving, and leadership skills

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