Are you someone who thrives on helping others succeed, enjoys making an impact, and takes pride in guiding customers to the right solutions for their projects? If you’re also naturally curious and eager to keep learning, consider starting or growing your career with us at The Home Depot.

The Senior Manager, Assortment Planning leads a division of the Assortment Planning function, delivering strong financial performance through interconnected business reviews and advanced analytics-driven insights. This role leads a multi-level team to drive strategic assortment decisions across in-store and online channels, leveraging macro space analytics, AI-enabled tools, and customer insights to optimize return on investment and business outcomes. The senior manager will work closely with Merchandising Senior Director leading supported departments, to develop and execute a calendar of category reviews, and should be an advocate for implementing assortment planning best practices across the portfolio of categories.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead team in structuring category reviews, assessing requirements and design analysis that influences category strategy. Provide thought leadership to team relative to category reviews.
• Provide process management for monitoring progress and proactively identifying and communicating issues. Review project milestones, conduct post-mortem analysis and integrate new sources of data that support category objectives.
• Deliver actionable insights and merchant-ready recommendations to drive category performance and financial results.
• Lead macro space analytics and capital allocation strategies, identifying opportunities to optimize space productivity with consideration for category productivity, regionalization, and store profiles/sizes.
• Integrate online and omnichannel insights into assortment strategies to maximize total business performance.
• Champion the use of AI and advanced analytics to improve forecasting accuracy, streamline processes, and elevate insight quality.
• Partner cross-functionally with Merchandising, Finance, Space Planning, Visual, Project Planning, and Supply Chain to ensure aligned and executable strategies.
• Provide program leadership across key initiatives, ensuring delivery against milestones and business outcomes.
• Build and develop high-performing teams, fostering a culture of curiosity, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Key Accountabilities

• Delivery of high-quality, timely, and accurate analytics and insights
• Improvement in category performance, space productivity, and capital ROI
• Advancement and adoption of AI-driven capabilities
• Development of team capability and leadership bench strength
• Own Divisional Senior Director relationship for designated departments, supporting strategic prioritization and ad hoc analysis/reporting.
• Build and maintain a strong relationship with US counterparts to drive collaboration on strategic priorities and synergies for category prioritization and best practices for the team

Skills:

• Ability to partner with cross-functional teams at all levels across a complex organization
• Ability to lead team with competing demands and face-paced environment
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple demands, adjust to change quickly and work constructively under pressure
• Ability to structure nebulous projects and to work constructively under tight deadlines
• Ability to influence peers and business partners without authority

Competencies:

• Develops Talent
• Plans And Aligns
• Collaborates
• Drives Results
• Communicates Effectively

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Finance, or related field (MBA an asset)
• 6+ years of experience in merchandising, planning, analytics, or related fields
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with experience working with complex datasets
• Proven leadership and talent development experience
• Strong project management skills and ability to effectively handle multiple priorities and deadlines simultaneously

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Director, Assortment Planning
• Typically has 5-6 direct reports

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 Years of Work Experience:

6