Manager, Yield & Inventory Analytics at Best Buy

As a Manager, Yield & Inventory Analytics, you’ll turn inventory and pricing data into decisions that drive revenue for our growing Best Buy Ads business. Day to day, you’ll own the analytics that underpin how we price, forecast, and optimize our ad supply — and you’ll go further, delivering strategic analyses that shape product investments, partnership decisions, media planning, and marketing spend across Best Buy Ads. You’ll be a trusted analytical voice in a high-visibility function, partnering with leadership and decision-makers across Ads and Ecomm to keep us ahead of market dynamics. If you thrive at the intersection of programmatic media, strategic thinking, and quantitative problem-solving, this role was built for you. Best Buy Ads is a key part of our company’s business strategy, as we deliver business results by partnering with leading brands to captivate audiences, drive engagement, and provide measurable impact.

This role is hybrid, which means you will be required to work some days at our Best Buy office in Richfield, Minnesota, or New York City, and some days virtually from home or another non-Best Buy location. Candidates outside these metro areas may qualify for remote work. The recruiter or hiring manager will provide more details during the hiring process.

What you’ll do

• Analyze floor pricing and inventory allocation to identify yield optimization opportunities, applying critical thinking to diagnose underperformance and surface actionable recommendations
• Deliver recurring and ad hoc analyses for sales and senior leadership to support strategic long-term and short-term decisions across product, sales, partnerships, media planning, and GTM
• Translate complex, ambiguous data into clear, executive-ready narratives and dashboards that influence decision-making
• Provide recurring communication to Ads leadership on revenue, margin, sell-through, and sponsorship performance, adapting insights as market dynamics shift
• Provide requirements to product analytics for dashboard creation, balancing standardization with evolving business needs

Basic qualifications

• 3 years of experience in ad tech including yield management, programmatic advertising, or ad operations
• 1 year of experience working in a Retail Media Network
• 4 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data science
• Strong understanding of inventory pricing mechanics, keyword analysis, floor pricing, and sellthrough optimization
• 1 year experience working within a retail media network or comparable publisher-side ad platform
• 1 year hands-on experience with Google Ad Manager (GAM), Search, and Sponsored Product Pricing
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners and present data-driven findings to non-technical stakeholders
• Proven ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment, managing multiple priorities and adapting to changing business needs

Preferred qualifications

• Proficiency in SQL for data extraction and analysis
• Experience with Magnite or other SSP/ad server platforms
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field (Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, or similar)
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills, with a track record of translating analysis into business impact
• Experience influencing decisions through partnership rather than authority across cross-functional teams

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 Incentive Programs Summary.

For more information about benefits, LOA and paid time off, please refer to our Benefits Guide.

About us

As part of the Best Buy team, you’ll help us fulfill our purpose to enrich lives through technology. We bring that to life every day by humanizing and personalizing tech solutions for every stage of life — in our stores, online and in customers’ homes.

Our culture is built on deeply supporting and valuing our amazing employees who make it all possible. We’re committed to being a great place to work, where you can unlock unique career possibilities. Above all, we aim to provide a place where you can bring your full, authentic self to work now and into the future. Tomorrow works here.™

Best Buy is an equal opportunity employer.