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Sr Manager, Decision Science - Reverse, Secondary Market and Lifecycle

Best Buy

  • Saint Paul, Minnesota
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    Highlights

    You'll partner with senior leaders to solve complex challenges, uncover new opportunities, and shape strategy across reverse logistics, lifecycle experiences, and operational performance. As a Senior Manager, Decision Science, you'll lead a team that turns data into decisions that improve how we serve customers and run our business.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationSaint Paul, Minnesota
    IndustryRetail
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1966
    Websitehttp://www.bestbuy-jobs.com/

    Description

    As a Senior Manager, Decision Science, you'll lead a team that turns data into decisions that improve how we serve customers and run our business. You'll partner with senior leaders to solve complex challenges, uncover new opportunities, and shape strategy across reverse logistics, lifecycle experiences, and operational performance. If you enjoy leading teams, influencing decisions, and using data to make an impact, we'd love to meet you.

    In this role, you'll primarily work virtually from home or another non‑Best Buy location. However, you must live within a drivable distance to our corporate campus in Richfield, Minnesota. The specific work arrangements vary by role and team, and the recruiter or hiring manager will provide additional details during the hiring process.

    What you'll do
    • Lead, coach, and develop a team of decision scientists and analysts
    • Partner with business leaders to identify opportunities and solve key challenges
    • Set team priorities and manage a portfolio of analytics initiatives
    • Turn complex business questions into actionable analytical solutions
    • Guide forecasting, experimentation, predictive modeling, and statistical analysis efforts
    • Present clear insights and recommendations that influence business decisions
    • Champion talent development, succession planning, and employee engagement within the team
    • Promote best practices, innovation, and continuous improvement across the analytics organization

    Basic qualifications
    • Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent practical experience
    • 5+ years of experience using data and analytics to solve business problems
    • 3+ years of experience with SQL and Python, R, or a similar programming language
    • 2+ years of experience leading analytics, data science, business intelligence, or related teams
    • Experience presenting data-driven insights to senior leaders

    Preferred qualifications
    • Master's degree in a quantitative or business-related field
    • Experience in retail, e-commerce, supply chain, operations, or customer lifecycle analytics
    • Experience with forecasting, optimization, experimentation, or predictive modeling
    • Experience managing analytical roadmaps and multiple workstreams
    • Experience developing senior technical talent and people leaders

    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:
    • 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

    About Company

    Energetic teams. Fun atmosphere. Exciting opportunities.

    That’s what you’ll find at Best Buy. Care to join us?

    You can feel the energy here. And we’re not talking about the hum of electronics (there’s that, too). We’re talking about people.

    Best Buy employees are friendly, enthusiastic and willing to help you succeed. Sure, we’re a big company — the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer — but that doesn’t stop us from having fun while doing what we love: bringing technology into people’s lives in meaningful ways.

    When you join our team, we consider you part of our Best Buy family. And what you do here every day will support our goal to make people’s lives better, easier and more enjoyable through the great products we sell.

    So if you’d like using your talents to help improve people’s lives, bring it! We’d love to have your energy here.

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