Senior Business Analyst, Sustainability

The Home Depot is seeking a Senior Business Analyst for its Atlanta, GA location. This role involves leading project life cycles, serving as a subject matter expert, and reporting on project metrics. The analyst will support senior management in developing standardized reporting and business processes. Qualifications include a bachelor's degree and at least 3 years of experience. The position requires minimal travel and strong project management and analytical skills.
Position Purpose:

The Senior Business Analyst contributes in a lead role to the Senior Management team in the evaluation, design, development and implementation of standardized reporting, business processes and information systems solutions. The Senior Business Analyst will act as a strategic thought partner on issues facing the business. The Sr. Business Analyst will develop and track category and program performance as well as monitor trends.

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

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
• Reports to Manager/Sr. Manager
• No associates report to this role on a permanent basis, but requires the technical leadership of a project work team: may select team members and assess capabilities, provide technical training, provide information necessary to meet work, project or program objectives, evaluate program or project performance.

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.

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.