Retail Business Analyst

As a Retail Business Analyst, you will play a vital role in driving business understanding, use case scoping, and value realization for a strategic data science and data engineering transformation at a Retail Company. Your strong background in retail planning, merchandising, supply chain, or customer analytics will enable you to act as a bridge between business stakeholders and the data/engineering teams. Key Responsibilities: - **Business Engagement** - Collaborate with Retail stakeholders (category managers, planners, supply chain, analytics team) to understand business goals and pain points. - Gather and document detailed business requirements for use cases like demand forecasting, assortment planning, price optimization, customer segmentation, data migration, etc. - Support discovery workshops, interviews, and process walk-throughs. - **Use Case Translation** - Translate business processes into functional specs and data requirements. - Define KPIs, success metrics, and data granularity expectations. - Assist data scientists by validating model assumptions and interpreting forecast or recommendation outputs and data engineers with migration requirements, building of medallion architecture, delta load logics, table definitions, column definitions, etc. - **Retail Domain Expertise** - Bring in domain expertise from grocery/FMCG/fashion retail to guide the design of ML models (e.g., what is a good forecast, how promotions affect demand). - **Project Execution** - Work closely with product managers, data engineers, and modelers to track use case delivery. - Support UAT, user training, and documentation for dashboards or decision tools. Qualifications Required: - Strong background in retail planning, merchandising, supply chain, or customer analytics. - Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams. - Knowledge of data science concepts and methodologies. - Excellent communication and presentation skills. (Note: No additional details about the company were provided in the job description.),