What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Manager, Decision Science - Supply Chain Analytics position at Best Buy?
As a Sr. Manager, Decision Science - Supply Chain Analytics within the Best Buy Digital, Analytics, and Technology organization, you will partner cross-functionally to embed data-driven decision-making into the business and deliver high-impact analytic solutions that drive strategic and operational outcomes across the supply chain organization. In this role, you will leverage business context and data to identify new solution opportunities, shape the team’s strategy, own work prioritization, drive development and guide technical execution, deploy solutions and measure impact. The team seeks a candidate with extensive background in problem framing and application of analytic techniques to solve business problems with measurable impact.
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work on site Monday through Thursday at the Best Buy corporate office in Richfield, Minnesota. You can work virtually from home or another non Best Buy location on Friday. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.
What You’ll Do
- Lead, mentor and grow a team of individual contributors.
- Act as a trusted advisor to stakeholders, understand business challenges and identify opportunities where analytic solutions can drive improved business outcomes.
- Partner with business stakeholders to develop their requests into well-structured outcome-based engagements with clear analytic solution scope.
- Adapt to new domains and unfamiliar business challenges, quickly building context and developing effective data-driven solutions.
- Oversee the design, development and deployment of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics to aide in continuous improvement of Best Buy’s supply chain.
- Partner cross functionally with supply chain, technology, data operations and ML ops leaders to co-create solutions that deliver impact on operations.
- Define success metrics and determine measurement criteria for new capabilities and monitor the performance of established strategies and operations consistently.
- Effectively communicate with diverse audiences – including technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership – through both written and verbal channels.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative or business field (e.g., statistics, mathematics, engineering, economics, management, supply chain) or equivalent experience.
- 5 years of experience in a quantitative, supply chain, or retail field.
- 3 years of experience applying SQL, Python, R or similar tool and using visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau.
- 2 years of experience of leading analytics professionals/teams, directly or indirectly.
Preferred Qualifications
- Master’s degree in a quantitative field or business field.
- Exposure to on-prem and cloud-based analytics management.
- Exposure to agile or sprint-based work environment.
- Prior direct people leadership experience.
- Supply chain domain experience, especially in logistics, transportation or warehouse operations.
- Prior experience in retail.
What's in it for you?
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life. Our benefits include:
We’re committed to helping our people thrive at work and at home. Best Buy offers a range of benefits to support your overall well-being and provide support as you need it, especially at key moments in your life. Our benefits include:
- Competitive pay
- Great employee discount
- Financial savings and retirement resources
- Support for your physical and mental well-being
Best Buy provides different types of leaves of absence (LOA) and potential pay sources to employees based on eligibility. The length of your LOA depends on your situation, where you live, your full-time or part-time employment status, and federal and state regulations. Intermittent or reduced-schedule leave is also available for certain medical or family care leaves. Paid time off (vacation or PTO) is offered to full-time and part-time employees based on work location, employment status, salary or hourly status (exempt/non-exempt), and years of continued or bridged service.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.
Certain roles, where market norms demand it, are eligible for various forms of incentive pay to drive performance and offer recognition for achieving financial and strategic results. For more information about our incentive pay plans, including eligibility, please refer to our Incentive Programs Summary.
For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.
About us
As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.
Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™
Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.
Application deadline: Minimum of 5 days from the posting date. You can find that date above the job title at the top of the page.