Data Analyst
Posted on: 28 Sep 2021
New York, New York
Job Description
Job Summary
This position’s main objective is to maintain the accuracy of our book product hierarchy. You will work with both the Merchant and Product Data teams to ensure the accuracy of individual title metadata, while also managing changes to the overall product hierarchy. You have a passion for digging into the fine details of data, exhibit an acute attention to detail, love books, and thinking about how and where books could be categorized to maximize sales and discoverability.
What You Do
• Maintain the accuracy of individual title categorization and metadata, through your own search and recommendations from the stores and merchants.
• Manage changes to the overall product hierarchy, enhancing product discovery online while ensuring alignment with in-store merchandising directives.
• Process title correction requests from the stores, making updates as necessary.
• Identify the root causes of title mis-categorizations and propose solutions for improvement.
• Work cross functionally with the Category Management, Buying, Store Operations, Finance, and Product Data teams to ensure alignment.
Knowledge & Experience
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel skills, with an understanding of databases a plus.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills.
• Excellent listening, written, and oral communication skills.
• Works well under deadlines, self-starter, innovative.
• 3 years bookselling experience
• Proven analytical skills
• A lifelong passion for books
Barnes & Noble, Inc.
New York, New York
Barnes & Noble is the world’s largest bookseller and a leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products. The Company operates 627 Barnes & Noble bookstores in 50 states, and one of the Web’s premier e-commerce sites, BN.com. Our Nook Digital business offers a lineup of popular NOOK® tablets and e-Readers and an expansive collection of digital reading content through the NOOK Store®. Barnes & Noble’s mission is to operate the best omni-channel specialty retail business in America, helping both our customers and booksellers reach their aspirations, while being a credit to the communities we serve.
The Company was founded in 1971 by bookseller Leonard Riggio when he acquired the Barnes & Noble trade name and bookstore on Fifth Avenue in New York City. Mr. Riggio was CEO and then Executive Chairman. In August of 2019, Barnes & Noble was acquired by Elliott Advisors (UK) Limited (“Elliott”), and James Daunt, Managing Director of Waterstones bookstores in the U.K., was appointed CEO.
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IndustrySales/Retail
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No. of Employees24,000
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