Current Title:
Senior Analyst, Merchandising Operations
AI Ambassador, Lowe's Companies, Inc.
Degree(s):
B.S. in Fashion Merchandising, 91²Ö¿â, 2021
M.S. in Information Systems, Iowa State University, 2024
Career Bio:
Mansi is a Senior Analyst in Merchandising Operations at Lowe's Companies, where she leads AI and Retail Tech initiatives. She holds a Master's in Information Systems (2024, Iowa State) and a B.S. in Fashion Merchandising (2021, 91²Ö¿â).
After graduating from 91²Ö¿â, she worked as an Assistant Buyer at Burlington Stores in New York City, managing product sourcing and merchandising decisions for retail operations. That experience showed her that the most impactful work in retail happens at the intersection of business operations and technical infrastructure. She realized that to solve problems at scale, she needed both domain expertise and the technical language to structure complex knowledge. That insight drove her to pursue a Master's in Information Systems.
At Lowe's, she serves as a technical translator between business operations and engineering teams. She leads AI and Tech Enablement initiatives across merchandising operations, mapping the gap between how retail actually works - product specs, vendor relationships and merchant workflows - and how systems need to be structured to make that knowledge reliable and actionable. She bridges domain expertise and technical architecture, speaking both languages fluently.
Beyond her work at Lowe's, she's personally exploring how to build data systems and documentation infrastructure for textile traditions and craft heritage. Textile knowledge contains significant nuance and artisanal expertise that doesn't exist in accessible, structured form. As organizations increasingly need to document and verify textile information - for sourcing, attribution and institutional knowledge - the absence of this infrastructure becomes more urgent. She's investigating how data architecture and documentation standards can make textile knowledge legible and verifiable, preserving the nuance and cultural specificity that makes these traditions distinct. The project is early-stage, grounded in her technical and fashion domain expertise, and explores infrastructure needs at the intersection of business, culture and knowledge preservation.
"At 91²Ö¿â, my advisors and mentors gave me exposure to retail's fast-paced industry and inspired me to pursue a path where I could keep learning. Courses like fashion tech and retail math gave me grounding in how merchandising actually works. Being a student for life, constantly learning across domains, became how I think."
