Your Impact

The principle purpose of this role is to lead a team that supports Lowe's stores in the areas of customer service, sales, operational efficiency, and productivity. This role and team supports Lowe's stores by identifying, improving, and resolving customer, associate, process, and technology pain points. This role is responsible for creating, prioritizing, and executing a roadmap of work that will deliver Lowe's enterprise strategic initiatives and operational and financial objectives. In scope activities for this role and team include: 1. Execution and leadership of store operations business strategy in partnership with cross-functional teams across the Store Support Center (SSC). 2.Deliver key initiatives to achieve financial goals, eliminate waste, and provide frictionless experiences for both Lowe's customers and associates. Examples: a. Process design, testing, and continuous improvement, to drive customer satisfaction, business simplification, and store associate productivity. b. Development and deployment of store technology solutions (in partnership with IT) to eliminate or automate inefficient, complex, and cumbersome store processes. 3.Creation and communication of tactical execution plans including store communications, policy and procedure, and playbooks. 4.Implementation, tracking, and delivery of operational metrics in a simplified, digital reporting platform. 5.Serve as an escalation point in support of field leadership and stores. To accomplish this requires: 1) a focus centered on Lowe's customers and store associates, 2) the courage to challenge the status quo, 3) the transparent identification of problems, and the ability to prioritize and implement solutions; 4) enterprise thinking and cross-functional partnership, 5) operational business expertise, 6) systems-thinking to integrate new and legacy applications and processes.

What you will do

• Drives the execution of multiple work streams by identifying customer and operational needs; analyzing resources, costs, and forecasts, and incorporating them into business plans; gaining cross functional support for business plans and priorities; obtaining and distributing resources; setting standards and measuring progress; removing obstacles that impact performance; guiding performance and developing contingency plans accordingly.

• Leads a highly skilled and engaged workforce by aligning resource plans with business objectives; recruiting, selecting, and developing talent; motivating teams; preparing individuals for growth opportunities and advancement; staying current with industry trends, benchmarks, and best practices; providing guidance when difficult decisions need to be made.

• Demonstrates continuous learning and maintains a competitive advantage by building flexible business plans to adapt to changing and emerging business needs.

• Uses data to identify, prioritize, and drive continuous improvement programs to increase operational efficiency. Proactively identifies opportunities for process automation or elimination.

• Constantly communicates and partners with key stakeholders in the field and at the SSC to create a culture of teamwork, transparency, and awareness. Partners include, but are not limited to Merchandising, Supply Chain, IT, Product Management, HR, Learning and Development, DACI, Store Environment, and Marketing. This partnership ensures roadblocks are addressed, and programs are executed quickly.

• Drives store awareness, adoption, and day-to-day execution of core retail business processes on the front end, back end and sales floor such as: customer service, merchandising, receiving, delivery, cashiering, returns/exchanges, cash management, inventory management, markdown/NPI, assembly, supply management, equipment, pricing/promotions, reporting, etc.

• Creates, maintains and manages all exception-based reporting (identifying business trends) and predictive analytics in partnership with DACI to be used by Store Operations.

• Evaluates store policies and procedures and ensures that they are accurate, accessible, regularly maintained, and communicated – driving SOX compliance, and consistency in customer and associate experiences.

• Represents store operations as a subject matter expert and advocate on cross-functional SSC programs.

• Individual Contributor

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree Business, Industrial Engineering, Liberal Arts and 7 years Retail, Field Operations Management, Process Improvement, Project Management, Operational Execution, Support Change Initiatives

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master's Degree Business, Operations, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Production/Workforce Management and 10 years Retail, Field Operations Management, Process Improvement, Project Management, Operational Execution, Support Change Initiatives

About Lowe’s

Lowe’s Companies, Inc. (NYSE: LOW) is a FORTUNE® 50 home improvement company serving approximately 16 million customer transactions a week in the United States. With total fiscal year 2023 sales of more than $86 billion, Lowe’s operates over 1,700 home improvement stores and employs approximately 300,000 associates. Based in Mooresville, N.C., Lowe’s supports the communities it serves through programs focused on creating safe, affordable housing and helping to develop the next generation of skilled trade experts. For more information, visit Lowes.com.

Lowe’s is an equal opportunity employer and administers all personnel practices without regard to race, color, religious creed, sex, gender, age, ancestry, national origin, mental or physical disability or medical condition, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other category protected under federal, state, or local law.

Starting rate of pay may vary based on factors including, but not limited to, position offered, location, education, training, and/or experience. For information regarding our benefit programs and eligibility, please visit https://talent.lowes.com/us/en/benefits.