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Lowe's Sales

To accelerate profitable revenue growth by delivering exceptional customer experiences while becoming the most trusted home improvement retailer

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To accelerate profitable revenue growth by delivering exceptional customer experiences while becoming the most trusted home improvement retailer

Strengths

  • MARKET: Second largest home improvement retailer with 2,200+ stores
  • DIGITAL: Strong e-commerce platform with 23% YoY online growth
  • BRAND: 100+ years of trusted brand equity in home improvement
  • PRO: Expanding Pro customer segment with 20% annual growth
  • ECOSYSTEM: Integrated omnichannel experience across touchpoints

Weaknesses

  • ANALYTICS: Limited advanced customer data utilization capabilities
  • TECHNOLOGY: Legacy systems creating operational inefficiencies
  • TALENT: Insufficient specialized digital and data science talent
  • MARKETING: Lower marketing ROI vs competitors (18% vs 22%)
  • INTEGRATION: Siloed departmental operations hindering cohesion

Opportunities

  • SEGMENT: $450B growing pro contractor market largely untapped
  • SERVICES: Expanded installation services market potential of $25B
  • LOYALTY: Personalization technology to increase customer retention
  • OMNICHANNEL: Enhanced digital/physical integration for shopping
  • PARTNERSHIPS: Strategic vendor collaborations for exclusive offers

Threats

  • COMPETITION: Home Depot's 44% market share vs Lowe's 35%
  • ECOMMERCE: Amazon and specialized online retailers expansion
  • ECONOMY: Housing market fluctuations impacting DIY projects
  • SUPPLY: Ongoing supply chain disruptions affecting inventory
  • PRICING: Margin pressure from increased material costs (15% rise)

Key Priorities

  • PRO: Aggressively expand Pro customer acquisition and retention
  • DIGITAL: Modernize technology stack and data analytics capabilities
  • TALENT: Acquire and develop specialized revenue operations talent
  • OMNICHANNEL: Perfect seamless customer experience across channels
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To accelerate profitable revenue growth by delivering exceptional customer experiences while becoming the most trusted home improvement retailer

PRO DOMINANCE

Become the preferred supplier for professional contractors

  • ACQUISITION: Increase Pro customer base by 25% through targeted outreach and dedicated account managers
  • RETENTION: Achieve 85% Pro customer retention rate through enhanced loyalty program and exclusive benefits
  • SALES: Grow Pro segment revenue by 30% through expanded product assortment and bulk purchasing options
  • EXPERIENCE: Launch Pro mobile app with dedicated features achieving 40% adoption among Pro customers
DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

Modernize our technology and data capabilities

  • PLATFORM: Implement unified customer data platform integrating all touchpoints by Q3 end
  • ANALYTICS: Deploy predictive analytics models for 75% of high-value customer segments
  • PERSONALIZATION: Increase personalized recommendation conversion rate to 28% (from 18%)
  • AUTOMATION: Automate 40% of repetitive sales and marketing workflows through AI solutions
TALENT EVOLUTION

Build specialized revenue operations capabilities

  • HIRING: Fill 90% of critical revenue operations roles with specialized candidates by quarter end
  • DEVELOPMENT: Complete advanced analytics training for 100% of revenue team members
  • STRUCTURE: Implement cross-functional revenue pods aligned to key customer segments
  • CULTURE: Achieve 85% employee engagement score within revenue operations organization
SEAMLESS EXPERIENCE

Perfect omnichannel customer journey across touchpoints

  • CONSISTENCY: Achieve 90% consistency in customer experience metrics across all channels
  • CONVERSION: Increase cross-channel conversion rate to 4.5% through improved handoffs
  • VISIBILITY: Enable 100% real-time inventory visibility across all customer touchpoints
  • SATISFACTION: Achieve industry-leading NPS of 72 across all customer segments and channels
METRICS
  • REVENUE GROWTH: $25.2B quarterly revenue (15% YoY growth)
  • CUSTOMER ACQUISITION COST: $175 blended CAC across segments
  • CUSTOMER LIFETIME VALUE: $3,850 average customer LTV
VALUES
  • Customer-Obsessed
  • Data-Driven
  • Innovation-Focused
  • Excellence in Execution
  • Team Collaboration
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Align the learnings

Lowe's Sales Retrospective

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To accelerate profitable revenue growth by delivering exceptional customer experiences while becoming the most trusted home improvement retailer

What Went Well

  • DIGITAL: E-commerce sales grew 23% YoY, exceeding 18% target goal
  • LOYALTY: MVP loyalty program membership increased 15% to 17M members
  • PRO: Professional customer segment revenue increased by 20% YoY
  • MARGIN: Gross margin improved 60 basis points to 33.4% through mix

Not So Well

  • TRAFFIC: In-store traffic declined 2.5% versus previous year period
  • DIY: Consumer segment comparable sales down 1.8% versus prior year
  • CONVERSION: Digital cart abandonment rate increased to 76% from 72%
  • INVENTORY: Supply chain disruptions led to 92% in-stock rate vs 96%

Learnings

  • SEGMENTATION: Pro customers drive 5x higher average transaction value
  • DIGITAL: Mobile app users shop 3.2x more frequently than non-app users
  • CROSS-SELL: Installation services attach rate drives 22% higher LTV
  • MARKETING: Targeted campaigns show 3x ROI versus mass marketing efforts

Action Items

  • PLATFORM: Implement unified customer data platform by end of Q3 2025
  • TRAINING: Develop Pro specialist training for 100% of sales associates
  • TECHNOLOGY: Accelerate POS system upgrade to enhance checkout process
  • ATTRIBUTION: Deploy advanced marketing attribution model by Q2 2025
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To accelerate profitable revenue growth by delivering exceptional customer experiences while becoming the most trusted home improvement retailer

Strengths

  • PERSONALIZATION: AI-driven product recommendations live in app
  • OPERATIONS: AI inventory management reducing stockouts by 12%
  • ANALYTICS: Customer segmentation models improving targeting
  • FORECASTING: Predictive sales analytics for seasonal planning
  • AUTOMATION: Chatbot support handling 35% of customer inquiries

Weaknesses

  • INTEGRATION: Fragmented AI solutions across business units
  • TALENT: Limited specialized AI/ML expertise on revenue teams
  • ADOPTION: Low employee utilization of existing AI capabilities
  • INFRASTRUCTURE: Data quality issues hindering model accuracy
  • STRATEGY: Lack of cohesive enterprise AI roadmap for revenue

Opportunities

  • EXPERIENCE: AI-powered shopping assistants for personalization
  • PRICING: Dynamic pricing algorithms to optimize margins by 8%
  • INSIGHTS: Advanced customer journey analytics for conversion
  • TARGETING: Predictive lead scoring for Pro customer acquisition
  • EFFICIENCY: AI workflow automation to increase team productivity

Threats

  • COMPETITION: Home Depot's $1.2B investment in AI technologies
  • EXPERTISE: Talent war for AI specialists in retail technology
  • PRIVACY: Evolving regulations limiting customer data usage
  • INVESTMENT: Rapidly escalating costs of enterprise AI systems
  • EXPECTATION: Rising customer demands for AI-enhanced services

Key Priorities

  • STRATEGY: Develop comprehensive AI roadmap for revenue growth
  • TALENT: Build specialized AI team within revenue organization
  • PLATFORM: Implement unified AI/ML platform for sales/marketing
  • ADOPTION: Establish training program for AI tool utilization