Merchandising Analyst Jobs
Merchandising Analyst jobs are open across retail, consumer goods, e-commerce, and grocery, from entry-level to senior analyst, with specializations in assortment planning, inventory optimization, and pricing analysis. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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At Northern Tool + Equipment we get up every day to serve the tradespeople who keep our country running strong and the weekend warriors who want to work like them. It’s our mission to make sure they have the right tools for the job, and an easy, hassle-free experience at our store so they can get in, get out and get on with the job at hand.
Your top priority as an Associate Merchandising Analyst is to collaborate closely with merchandising, retail operations, and marketing teams to ensure the successful execution of promotional campaigns. Your primary responsibility will be to drive customer engagement and sales through well-planned and executed promotions. Your positive, professional, roll-up-your-sleeves-to-help attitude contributes to our winning culture and makes sure we leave a lasting impression. Join our team and enjoy working a hybrid schedule 3-4 days onsite per week at our Burnsville, Minnesota corporate office and 1-2 days per week from home.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in the planning and coordination of promotional campaigns, serving as the key merchandising partner for marketing, inventory and retail operations.
- Oversee the execution of promotional campaigns, ensuring appropriate inventory levels across channels and system set is done properly.
- Serve as the point person for all promotional activities across the organization.
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Identify insights, analyze category results and opportunities across financial metrics including sales, margin and ROI that impact the category and communicate findings, analysis, and recommendations to team.
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Partner with merchants to slot products, analyze vendor funding and make pricing recommendations in alignment with category strategy.
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Develop and interpret forecasts and margin trends for specific categories to determine optimal financial performance and growth opportunities.
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Partner with the merchandising category teams to provide insights and recommendations on promotional pricing, product offerings, line reviews, new SKUs, vendor funding and financial strategies. Analyze the business strategy and forecast to deliver profitable sales.
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Collaborates with merchandising and pricing team to analyze and recommend effective promotions and pricing management to drive revenue, margin and rate. Understands and analyzes key business metrics for the category and provides recommendations and support to deliver profitability.
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Executes promotional data quality during the ad planning lifecycle. Tracks and analyzes results of promotional price and product adjustments. Partners with manager on promotional strategies related to market dynamic changes, pricing trends and market opportunities.
- Leverage data analytics tools to organize, summarize, and visualize data into meaningful insights that drive Merchandising initiatives and decision making. Assist in the development and management of tools supporting business reporting and measuring product performance.
What you will bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Merchandising, or related field.
- 1-2 years of experience in Merchandising, Finance or Retail Analytics.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Analytical with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to influence others, gain buy-in and bring group to consensus leveraging data.
- Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Methodical and logical approach to problem solving.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with key partners.
- Ability to organize and manage a variety of activities while addressing multiple priorities and quickly react to changing business needs while meeting firm deadlines.
- Demonstrates Northern Tool + Equipment’s 12 Core Competencies.
About Us
Northern Tool + Equipment is a family business with roots stretching back three generations to Minnesota’s Iron Range, where our blue-collar work ethic and commitment to serving the people who do the tough jobs was born. Our mission is to be the best in the world at serving the professional tradespeople and those who want to work like them. With over 130 retail stores across 24 states, top national brands and global manufacturing operations designed to create our own specialized tools and equipment, we are busting our knuckles to deliver the products, prices and advice our customers need to succeed. We’re looking for people who share our blue-collar work ethic. If you’re the kind of person who likes to put your nose to the grindstone to help your customers and company succeed, we’d love to talk to you about becoming a member of our team.
Northern Tool + Equipment is proud to be recognized by Forbes as a Top Midsize Employer in 2023. We are committed to creating a workplace where your contributions are valued, and your professional growth is encouraged. When you join our team, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and competitive compensation package that includes:
- Competitive Pay: Earn $61,100.00 - 88,110.00 Salaried (Exempt), with your exact compensation personalized based on your skills, experience, and location. We believe in rewarding top talent with pay that reflects your value.
- Flexible Work Schedule: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve with our flexible scheduling, this is a full-time position.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Your health and well-being are our priority. We offer a variety of health plans, so you can choose what best fits your needs. Employees working 30+ hours per week enjoy a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan with an enhanced company match to support your financial future.
- Generous Employee Discount: Love our products? So do we! Enjoy a significant discount on the quality tools and equipment we offer, helping you save on the items you love to use.
- Get Paid on Your Terms: With our Daily Pay option, you don’t have to wait for payday—access your earnings whenever you need them for added financial flexibility.
- Holidays and Time Off: We believe in giving our team time to relax and recharge. Our stores are closed on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, ensuring you can enjoy these special occasions with your loved ones. Additionally, we operate with reduced hours on five other federal holidays, recognizing the importance of personal time. Employees working 30+ hours per week are eligible for paid holidays and paid time off.
- Incentives: Be rewarded for eligible incentive programs.
When you join Northern Tool + Equipment, you're not just starting a job—you're joining a community that supports your success. Come be a part of a team where your skills, dedication, and passion are recognized and celebrated. Your future starts here!
At Northern Tool + Equipment we get up every day to serve the tradespeople who keep our country running strong and the weekend warriors who want to work like them. It’s our mission to make sure they have the right tools for the job, and an easy, hassle-free experience at our store so they can get in, get out and get on with the job at hand.
Your top priority as an Associate Merchandising Analyst is to collaborate closely with merchandising, retail operations, and marketing teams to ensure the successful execution of promotional campaigns. Your primary responsibility will be to drive customer engagement and sales through well-planned and executed promotions. Your positive, professional, roll-up-your-sleeves-to-help attitude contributes to our winning culture and makes sure we leave a lasting impression. Join our team and enjoy working a hybrid schedule 3-4 days onsite per week at our Burnsville, Minnesota corporate office and 1-2 days per week from home.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assist in the planning and coordination of promotional campaigns, serving as the key merchandising partner for marketing, inventory and retail operations.
- Oversee the execution of promotional campaigns, ensuring appropriate inventory levels across channels and system set is done properly.
- Serve as the point person for all promotional activities across the organization.
-
Identify insights, analyze category results and opportunities across financial metrics including sales, margin and ROI that impact the category and communicate findings, analysis, and recommendations to team.
-
Partner with merchants to slot products, analyze vendor funding and make pricing recommendations in alignment with category strategy.
-
Develop and interpret forecasts and margin trends for specific categories to determine optimal financial performance and growth opportunities.
-
Partner with the merchandising category teams to provide insights and recommendations on promotional pricing, product offerings, line reviews, new SKUs, vendor funding and financial strategies. Analyze the business strategy and forecast to deliver profitable sales.
-
Collaborates with merchandising and pricing team to analyze and recommend effective promotions and pricing management to drive revenue, margin and rate. Understands and analyzes key business metrics for the category and provides recommendations and support to deliver profitability.
-
Executes promotional data quality during the ad planning lifecycle. Tracks and analyzes results of promotional price and product adjustments. Partners with manager on promotional strategies related to market dynamic changes, pricing trends and market opportunities.
- Leverage data analytics tools to organize, summarize, and visualize data into meaningful insights that drive Merchandising initiatives and decision making. Assist in the development and management of tools supporting business reporting and measuring product performance.
What you will bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Merchandising, or related field.
- 1-2 years of experience in Merchandising, Finance or Retail Analytics.
- Proficient in Microsoft Excel.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Analytical with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to influence others, gain buy-in and bring group to consensus leveraging data.
- Clear, concise verbal and written communication skills.
- Methodical and logical approach to problem solving.
- Ability to develop strong relationships with key partners.
- Ability to organize and manage a variety of activities while addressing multiple priorities and quickly react to changing business needs while meeting firm deadlines.
- Demonstrates Northern Tool + Equipment’s 12 Core Competencies.
About Us
Northern Tool + Equipment is a family business with roots stretching back three generations to Minnesota’s Iron Range, where our blue-collar work ethic and commitment to serving the people who do the tough jobs was born. Our mission is to be the best in the world at serving the professional tradespeople and those who want to work like them. With over 130 retail stores across 24 states, top national brands and global manufacturing operations designed to create our own specialized tools and equipment, we are busting our knuckles to deliver the products, prices and advice our customers need to succeed. We’re looking for people who share our blue-collar work ethic. If you’re the kind of person who likes to put your nose to the grindstone to help your customers and company succeed, we’d love to talk to you about becoming a member of our team.
Northern Tool + Equipment is proud to be recognized by Forbes as a Top Midsize Employer in 2023. We are committed to creating a workplace where your contributions are valued, and your professional growth is encouraged. When you join our team, you’ll enjoy a comprehensive and competitive compensation package that includes:
- Competitive Pay: Earn $61,100.00 - 88,110.00 Salaried (Exempt), with your exact compensation personalized based on your skills, experience, and location. We believe in rewarding top talent with pay that reflects your value.
- Flexible Work Schedule: Achieve the work-life balance you deserve with our flexible scheduling, this is a full-time position.
- Comprehensive Benefits Package: Your health and well-being are our priority. We offer a variety of health plans, so you can choose what best fits your needs. Employees working 30+ hours per week enjoy a robust benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and a 401(k) plan with an enhanced company match to support your financial future.
- Generous Employee Discount: Love our products? So do we! Enjoy a significant discount on the quality tools and equipment we offer, helping you save on the items you love to use.
- Get Paid on Your Terms: With our Daily Pay option, you don’t have to wait for payday—access your earnings whenever you need them for added financial flexibility.
- Holidays and Time Off: We believe in giving our team time to relax and recharge. Our stores are closed on Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, ensuring you can enjoy these special occasions with your loved ones. Additionally, we operate with reduced hours on five other federal holidays, recognizing the importance of personal time. Employees working 30+ hours per week are eligible for paid holidays and paid time off.
- Incentives: Be rewarded for eligible incentive programs.
When you join Northern Tool + Equipment, you're not just starting a job—you're joining a community that supports your success. Come be a part of a team where your skills, dedication, and passion are recognized and celebrated. Your future starts here!
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Distribution & Wholesale
- Retail
- Insurance
- Food & Beverage
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in merchandising analyst jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in business, merchandising, retail management, or a related field
- Proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets for data analysis and reporting
- Experience with retail planning or inventory management systems such as JDA or Oracle Retail
- Ability to analyze sales data and translate findings into actionable assortment recommendations
- Familiarity with open-to-buy planning, sell-through metrics, and markdown optimization
- Strong communication skills for presenting insights to buying and planning teams
Tips for Your Merchandising Analyst Job Search
Quantify your assortment and sell-through results
Hiring managers want to see the business impact of your analysis, not just the tools you used. Cite specific outcomes like sell-through improvement, markdown reduction, or inventory turn gains on your resume to stand out from candidates who only list software skills.
Tailor your resume to each retail vertical
A grocery merchandising analyst role and a fashion e-commerce role require different vocabulary and category knowledge. Align your resume language to the specific vertical in each posting, whether that's fresh food, apparel, hardlines, or direct-to-consumer, to pass initial screening.
Apply early to roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists merchandising analyst openings from across the United States in one place, so you can find roles that match and apply directly to each listing.
Target postings that name your planning tools
Many merchandising analyst roles require proficiency in specific systems like JDA, Oracle Retail, or Blue Yonder. When a posting names one of these tools, prioritize it if it matches your experience, since those employers often filter resumes on that criterion before reading anything else.
Prepare a case study for the interview
Most merchandising analyst interviews include a business case or take-home exercise involving real sales or inventory data. Practice walking through your analytical process out loud, from framing the problem to recommending an action, so you can explain your reasoning clearly under time pressure.
Negotiate by anchoring to category scope
When discussing offers, anchor your ask to the number of categories, SKUs, or channels you will own, not just your title. Broader category responsibility typically justifies a higher band, and framing it that way signals you understand how compensation is structured in merchandising organizations.
Merchandising Analyst Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
Which companies are hiring the most merchandising analysts?
The companies hiring the most merchandising analysts right now include Lowe's Home Improvement, CVS Health, and McLane Company, with the largest share of openings in Texas, Rhode Island, and North Carolina, based on current listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Retailers with large private-label programs and multi-channel operations tend to hire most consistently throughout the year.
How many merchandising analyst jobs are remote?
About 78% of merchandising analyst openings are fully remote or hybrid as of November 2026, reflecting the data-centric nature of many parts of the role. Pricing analysis, e-commerce assortment work, and reporting functions are the sub-areas most likely to be offered remotely, while roles tied to in-store planogram execution or vendor meetings tend to require on-site presence.
How do you become a merchandising analyst?
Start with a bachelor's degree in business, retail merchandising, or a data-focused field, then build hands-on proficiency in Excel and at least one retail planning system. Entry points include assistant buyer roles, merchandise coordinator positions, and retail operations internships. Developing a working knowledge of open-to-buy planning, inventory turn, and sell-through analysis will make your candidacy competitive for analyst-level openings.
Can you get hired as a merchandising analyst with little experience?
Yes, many employers hire merchandising analysts at the entry level if you can demonstrate strong analytical fundamentals and retail awareness. Building a short portfolio using publicly available retail datasets, completing a course in retail planning or category management, and applying to companies with structured rotational programs gives you a concrete path in without prior analyst-specific experience.
What does the merchandising analyst interview process look like?
The process typically begins with a recruiter screen focused on your retail background and tool experience, followed by a hiring manager interview that explores how you approach assortment or inventory problems. Most employers then assign a take-home case or in-person exercise using sales data, and finalists usually meet with a cross-functional panel from buying, planning, or finance before an offer is extended.
Where can I find and apply to merchandising analyst jobs?
You can find and apply to merchandising analyst jobs on Migrate Mate, which lists current openings from across the United States. Search the roles available, find the ones that fit your experience level and category focus, and apply directly to each listing from the page.
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