Job Title: Business Analyst - Retail
Location: Los Angeles
Job Type: Full-time
Experience: 2+ years
Industry: Analytics Services
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Work closely with clients and internal stakeholders to gather, analyse, and document business requirements.
- Translate business needs into functional specifications, user stories, and process flows with a strong focus on data-driven decision making.
- Support consulting engagements by conducting market research, competitor benchmarking, and industry analysis.
- Collaborate with Product, Data Engineering, and Analytics teams to define solution approaches aligned with client objectives.
- Assist in creating business cases, value propositions, and solution decks for client presentations.
- Participate in workshops, stakeholder discussions, and requirement elicitation sessions.
- Analyse datasets to derive actionable insights related to customer behaviour, sales performance, supply chain, or merchandising.
- Contribute to product thinking by supporting feature prioritization, backlog grooming, and basic product documentation.
- Ensure clear communication between business and technical teams to drive project execution.
- Support delivery teams in UAT, validation, and solution adoption by business users.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise:
- 2+ years of experience in a consulting, analytics, or business analysis role (consulting exposure is mandatory)
- Basic understanding of Retail or CPG domain (e.g., merchandising, supply chain, demand planning, customer analytics)
- Exposure to Product Management concepts such as user stories, roadmaps, or feature prioritization.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to structure ambiguous problems.
- Working knowledge of tools such as Excel, PowerPoint, and preferably SQL or any data visualization tool (Power BI, Tableau etc)
- Familiarity with requirement gathering techniques, process mapping, and documentation.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, client-facing consulting environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Economics, or related field (MBA is a plus but not mandatory)
About Polestar
As a data analytics and enterprise planning powerhouse, Polestar Solutions helps its customers bring out the most sophisticated insights from their data in a value-oriented manner. From analytics foundation to analytics innovation initiatives, we offer a comprehensive range of services that help businesses succeed with data.
We have a geographic presence in the United States (Dallas, Manhattan, New York, Delaware), UK(London) & India (Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Bangalore & Kolkata) and have 600+ people strong world-class team. We are growing at a rapid pace and plan to double our growth each year. This provides immense growth and learning opportunities to those who are choosing to work with Polestar.
Our expertise and deep passion for what we do has brought us many accolades.
The list includes:
- Recognized as “Great Place to Work” - 2024
- Recognized as the Top 50 Companies for Data Scientists in 2023 by AIM.
- Financial Times awarded Polestar as High-Growth Companies across Asia-Pacific for a 5th time in a row in 2023.
- Featured on the Economic Times India's Growth Champions in FY2023.
- Polestar Analytics Selected as a 2022 Red Herring Global
- Top Data Science Providers in India 2022: Penetration and Maturity (PeMa) Quadrant
- FT ranking of 500 of the Asia-Pacific region’s high-growth companies.
- India’s most promising data science companies in 2022.
We have one of the most progressive people’s practices which are all aimed at enabling fast-paced growth for those who deserve it.
