Business Analyst

What We Do


CarParts.com is the go-to eCommerce platform for auto care and maintenance. We offer drivers quality parts at competitive prices and allow customers to schedule an appointment with a trusted mechanic directly from our website. We use world-class design principles and the latest technologies to deliver a fast, easy-to-use, and mobile-intuitive website. And with our company-owned national distribution network, we bring the best brands and manufacturers directly to consumers, cutting out the costs associated with brick-and-mortar retailers. Our more than 1,700 team members worldwide are dedicated to Empowering Drivers Along Their Journey.


Our Culture


At CarParts.com, we're DRIVEN by our core values: Safety First, Customer Focused, and a Commitment to Excellence. These values guide us in everything we do and push us further in our growth both as a company and as people. They cultivate an environment where employees are inspired and empowered as we build and thrive together. All the hard work of our entire team has resulted in back-to-back record-breaking quarters since Q1 of 2020, as well as our inclusion in the Los Angeles Business Journal's top 100 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles list for four years in a row (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023). Join us!


Summary of Role/Position


We are looking for a sharp, curious Business Analyst to sit within the Office of the COO and serve as a trusted analytical partner across our merchandising and operations teams. This is a high-visibility, on-site role with direct access to senior leadership - ideal for a recent graduate or early-career analyst with strong technical skills and a drive to make an impact. You will own end-to-end analytics projects, surface opportunities, and help drive decisions that shape the business.

What You'll Do

• Partner with merchandising and operations leaders to define analytical priorities and translate business questions into structured analyses.
• Build and maintain dashboards, reports, and KPI frameworks in Tableau and Excel that give leadership real-time visibility into performance.
• Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, join, and transform data across our data warehouse.
• Develop Python scripts and pipelines for data cleaning, automation, and exploratory analysis.
• Conduct analyses on assortment performance, sell-through rates, inventory efficiency, vendor trends, and operational bottlenecks.
• Present findings clearly and concisely to both technical and non-technical audiences, including the COO.
• Identify data quality issues and work cross-functionally to resolve them at the source.

Who You Are

• A recent graduate or early-career analyst eager to grow in a fast-paced, high-accountability environment.
• Comfortable owning a project from raw data all the way to a polished executive summary.
• You ask good questions before diving into the data - and better questions after.
• You communicate clearly and can tailor a story to your audience.
• Naturally curious about retail, merchandising, and operations.

You Must Have

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Business Analytics, Statistics, Economics, Mathematics, or a related field.
• Proficiency in Python for data analysis (pandas, NumPy, etc.).
• Strong SQL skills - comfortable writing complex queries.
• Experience building dashboards and visualizations in Tableau.
• Advanced Excel skills including pivot tables, complex formulas, and data modeling.
• Internship, project, or coursework experience applying these tools to real business problems.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with R for statistical analysis or modeling.
• Background or coursework in merchandising, retail, supply chain, or financial analytics.
• Familiarity with statistical methods: regression, hypothesis testing, or forecasting.
• Experience with Power BI, Alteryx, or similar BI tools.

A reasonable estimate of the salary range for this position based on job experience, education level, global geographic region, etc: $90,000-$100,000

CarParts.com is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring that we fulfill this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.


The above-noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the incumbent a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.