Sales Analyst

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

• Build strong partnerships with Menards teams, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues quickly and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction.
• Lead weekly meetings with Menards inventory analysts and ASSA ABLOY demand planners to identify challenges, align priorities, and develop actionable strategies.
• Analyze POS data, sales trends, and forecast metrics to improve visibility, accuracy, and decision making.
• Monitor exception reports to manage SKU replenishment standards that support consistent, reliable inventory flow.
• Recommend inventory levels that maximize profitability, improve turns, and maintain strong in-stock performance across stores and distribution centers.
• Forecast and track daily sales, manage replenishment schedules, and coordinate logistics to support efficient order fulfillment.
• Identify root causes of shortages, propose corrective actions, and drive continuous improvement across the supply chain.
• Improve vendor scorecard performance by tracking key metrics—such as out of stocks, promotional execution and tracking, and communicating progress to internal and customer teams.
• Support the Collaborative Planning process by integrating customer specific insights into sales trends, new items, mix changes, and promotional performance.
• Work closely with supply chain and customer sale teams to align ordering forecasts.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.

Education & Experience Profile

• Bachelor's degree, preferably in Business, Supply Chain or Data Analysis emphasis.
• 2-4 years’ experience relating to account management, logistics or supply chain environment with specific understanding of supply chain, planning, scheduling, and logistics concepts. Industry experience and product knowledge are desired.
• APICS membership and participation encouraged.

Required Skills

• Ability to build relationships and communicate effectively across all levels, both in writing and verbally
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Thrives in fast-paced environments, managing overlapping projects and shifting priorities with ease.
• Demonstrates a strong customer-focused mindset across both internal teams and external partners.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office, with a strong emphasis on Excel

Management/Effectiveness Competencies

• Integrity and Trust
• Analytics
• Managing and Measuring Work
• Influencing and Negotiating

Functional Competencies

• Logistics Operations
• Order Management
• All Internal Supply Chain Data / Sales Reporting Systems
• External Customer Supply Chain
• Inventory Analysis

Physical Requirements

Work Environment

• Job Location: Eau Claire, WI.
• Working conditions are normal for an office environment within a Menards office building. This individual must be on site 5 days per week.

Additional Information

• The above information on this description has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this job/classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
• ASSA ABLOY is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer.
• ASSA ABLOY welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available on request for candidate taking part in all aspects of the selection process.