Director, Analytics strategy and Translator, Business Intelligence Center

Sysco

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About The Position

The Director Strategy & Performance Analytics is responsible for the vision, strategic development, and socialization of Sysco’s Analytics & Performance Intelligence capabilities. This prospective candidate will be a leader in Sysco’s customer-first evolution, which is enabled by advanced analytics and a digital transformation. They will be responsible for the roadmap and continued expansion of our capabilities & assets against one of Sysco’s core enterprise analytics engines. This role will require close collaboration, depending upon the model at hand, with executive leadership, functional teams (e.g., merchandising, revenue management, human resources), operating companies, specialty companies or geographies and technology teams.

Requirements

Bachelors in an analytical field (e.g., Engineering, Mathematics, Business)
7+ years in a corporate setting or leading professional services company in an analytical or strategic role such as Strategy, Finance or Insights
Strong problem-solving skills to take an ambiguous problem and develop a structured and logical framework for defining the problem, analyze the data, and derive insights and actionable recommendations
Experience shaping enterprise strategies and working with senior leadership to drive alignment
Strong ability to manage ambiguity and guide the organization through it towards clear and decisive action plans
High level of familiarity with digital technologies including an understanding of underlying data architectures, data requirements and limitations, interdependencies between interface front-end, service layer, and back-end
Understanding of a wide range of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics approaches and ability to educate business owners on modeling techniques
Deep understanding of business value drivers, corresponding business impact, and the relationship between modeling choices and business considerations
Ability to establish a collaborative work environment that enables a cross-functional team with various backgrounds and capabilities to execute at a high-level
Superb verbal, written, and interpersonal skills; fluency interfacing with both technical and management teams and the ability to make complicated analytics and statistical results understandable and actionable

Nice To Haves

MBA or another advanced degree from a top tier educational institution (preferred)

Responsibilities

Define and align the organization around where Sysco wins and loses leveraging data & insights from across EATs organization (data science, primary research, market\customer intelligence)
Support the completion of an annual strategic plan, as well as a strategic action plan that manages the execution of the strategies.
Work with leadership throughout Sysco to frame business opportunities and develop appropriate analytic strategies
Impact & evolve internal processes and collaboration models for a unified, integrated approach
Define the roadmap and lead the design of an industry-leading predictive analytics engine for the enterprise
Identify necessary data elements and their sources and identify and address any irrelevant, corrupt, missing, or incongruent data
Work with Business, Data Science, and Business Technology teams to ensure that all models are effectively scaled
Develop and build metrics and tracking to ensure value is captured from analytical models being developed and deployed
Leads team of people who work with business to define the integrated analytic, business intelligence, primary research approach needed to resolve the strategic issue
Leads team who drives the interaction of the technical teams and business teams to ensure the value of data science, primary research and market intelligence work is achieved
Share knowledge, mentor, and educate the analytically curious throughout Sysco