Sr. Manager Merchandising Analytics, FP&A & AI Enablement

Plays a critical role in driving the financial and strategic success of AZ MX by leading merchandising analytics, financial planning, and business intelligence capabilities. This leader is responsible not only for delivering actionable insights and performance analysis, but also for transforming traditional analytical processes through the adoption of AI-driven decision support, automation, and advanced analytics. By combining strong business acumen, data expertise, and emerging AI technologies, this position accelerates decision-making, improves productivity, and enables merchandising teams to focus on high-value strategic activities that maximize sales, profitability, and long-term growth

• Lead the transformation of merchandising analytics from traditional reporting and manual analysis to AI-enabled decision support and automated insight generation

• Leadership and team development through mentoring and developing a high-performing analytics team capable of leveraging AI, advanced analytics, and modern decision-support tools to generate actionable business recommendations

• Cross-functional collaboration by partnering with supply chain, merch directors, merch support teams, commercial, operations, finance, and marketing teams to ensure seamless execution of merchandising initatives and alignment with AZ goals

• Work with Merchandising Diectors , Visual Merch & Content Director, Assortment, Promotions and Pricing teams on special projects. Brain storming solutions for category issues. Solving problems through data analysis and reporting.

• Redesign merchandising planning, performance management, and analytical processes through automation, AI-powered workflows, and self-service analytics capabilities to increase organizational productivity and decision speed

• Collaborate with merchandising teams to develop, measure, and track results of initatives that optimize product assortments, pricing, promotions, catalog, visual displays, or any merchandising initiative to maximize sales and margins

• Analyze sales trends, customer behavior, assortment performance, pricing effectiveness, and market insights using both traditional and AI-enabled analytical approaches. Translate insights into strategic recommendations and executive-ready decision support for senior leadership

• A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent.

• Business Administrations, Statistics, Engineering or comparable field.

• More than seven years.

• Seven years in an analytical role with sufficient experience in other areas to demonstrate a thorough understanding of retailing, key areas may include Business Administration, Statistics, Engineering, Programming business applications.

• Should meet all of the requirements for Sr. Merchandising Analyst. Also this position requires the person to be proactive and have demonstrated leadership ability and executive presence. Must have a category manager's level of understanding of the 4P's of retailing. Advanced english.

• Graduate degree/MBA preferred.