Stephanie E. Aldridge
Business Analyst, Specialty retail
Boston, MA · (617) 555 0133 · name@example.com · linkedin.com/in/stephanieealdridge
Key Qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Seven years in analysis roles, four of them consulting to retail clients
INDUSTRIES
Specialty retail, consumer packaged goods, grocery wholesale
SPECIALTIES
Requirements definition, process mapping, hypothesis driven analysis, system selection
SYSTEMS
Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Alteryx, Tableau, Miro, Smartsheet
CREDENTIALS
Certified Business Analysis Professional, International Institute of Business Analysis
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in business administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Results at a Glance
900
Store retailer
41
Client interviews
220 hours
Added scope
79%
Utilization rate
Executive Summary
Business analyst inside a consulting firm, four years of client engagements after three in retail and wholesale operations. Sits on the case team as the requirements and data voice, runs the client interviews and builds the models the recommendation rests on. Finds the scope question early enough that it becomes a change order rather than an argument.
Signature Achievements
- Defined the requirements for an order management replacement at a 900 store retailer and the client approved the design without a rework cycle.
- Ran 41 client interviews on a merchandising engagement and reduced eleven candidate root causes to the three the case team could prove.
- Built the Alteryx workflow that turned nine weeks of manual store data preparation into a two hour refresh.
- Wrote the change order capturing 220 hours of added scope and recovered 68,000 dollars the firm had been absorbing.
- Held a 79 percent utilization rate over three years while also running campus recruiting for the analyst class.
- Prepared the steering committee readout on a 1.4 million dollar engagement that renewed for a second phase.
Professional Experience
Business Analyst
Charles Basin Consulting Partners, Boston, MA 2022 to present
Requirements and analytics workstreams on retail engagements of eight to twenty weeks for clients between 200 million and 2 billion dollars in revenue.
- Owns requirements definition and acceptance criteria on the client side of every system selection the firm runs.
- Facilitates current state and future state workshops in Miro with client operators and their technology leads.
- Builds the models that carry the case and defends the assumptions in the steering committee room.
- Tracks deliverables and hours in Smartsheet and raises change orders before scope is quietly absorbed.
Business Analyst
Northgate Provisions Company, Worcester, MA 2020 to 2022
Category and supply planning analysis for a regional grocery wholesaler with 1,100 employees.
- Documented replenishment across four distribution centers and standardized the exception rules.
- Built the weekly fill rate reporting merchandising directors ran their category reviews from.
- Supported a demand planning tool selection from requirements through vendor scoring.
Merchandising Assistant
Quabbin Outfitters, Springfield, MA 2019 to 2020
Buying support for an eleven store outdoor retailer in western Massachusetts.
- Maintained the seasonal buy plan and tracked receipts against it week by week.
- Produced the sell through report the owner used to place reorders.
- Set up the vendor delivery calendar the store operations team worked to each month.
Licensure and Certification
Certified Business Analysis Professional, International Institute of Business Analysis
Alteryx Designer Core certification
Education
Bachelor of Science in business administration, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2019
Core Skills
Requirements definition · Process mapping · Client interviews · Alteryx workflows · Tableau reporting · System selection · Change order management · Workshop facilitation · Acceptance criteria · Deliverable production