Manager, Business Analytics and Reporting, Solutions Group

CWT • Minnetonka, MN

9d

About The Position

Within Solutions Group, the Technology & Development (TED) team acts as the technology partner of client-facing consulting teams, we manage the data infrastructure in collaboration with CWT IT department, identify the data and analytics needs and opportunities, design and develop the innovative technology solutions to efficiently deliver consulting services and data products to our customers. As part of Technology & Development (TED) team, you’ll lead a team of consultants to work on a variety of different projects and activities, including infrastructure and data management, data mining and visualization, analysis and report creation, process diagnosis and enhancement, as well as software development and data product development. As the TED team is spread across multiple countries and covers the needs of internal and external customers from various regions (Americas, Europe, Asia-Pacific) and practices (Air, Hotel, Ground, Business Insights etc), you’ll have the exposure and challenge to work with colleagues across different time zones and cultures. Being the interface of commercial team and technology teams, you’re also expected to communicate well with audiences with different levels of technology literacy and skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Business Analytics or related field of study; Master Degree is a plus
• 5 years relative experience in big data analysis, software development, or other data and technology fields
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills with an attention to detail
• Ability to think creatively and proactively
• Project management experience
• Team leader and strong influencer
• Time management and multi-tasking skills
• English fluent: written and oral
• Able to thrive within a multicultural environment
• Comfortable with communicating to various levels in the organization including Directors and above, Managers, and external parties
• Strong capacity to capture business needs and translate them into technical design and development requirements
• Must know Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, PowerPoint etc) and in particular advanced skills in Excel; knowledge of Access, VBA and PowerQuery is a strong plus
• Skills in business dashboard design, data visualization (R, Python, Tableau, PowerBI etc) or front-end development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is a plus
• Knowledge of Business Intelligence platforms (Cognos, SAP Business Objects etc) is required
• Must master at least one relational database technology and its query language: Oracle SQL Plus, Postgres, Hive, Impala or other

Nice To Haves

• Hadoop-based big data ecosystem, cloud data ingestion and integration
• agile software development concept
• version management tools (e.g. Git) and Linux shell commands is a plus
• at least one programming language and its web application framework: preferably R / Shiny or Python/ Django

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of technical consultants with the focus to develop business analytics and data products. This may involve any of the following activities · Develop advanced Business Intelligence reports, dashboards and data visualizations · Develop and optimize algorithms to reflect business logic and analytical methodologies · Develop and maintain web applications using R (Shiny), Python (Django) or other technologies as data products prototypes or internal analytical and data management tools
• Actively contribute to enhance the technology capacity of entire TED team · Explore, compare and introduce new techniques (languages, libraries, functions, software) · Summarize and document business logics and best practices for analytics and reporting · Structure and share knowledge via web posts, seminars and trainings etc
• Perform ad-hoc data analysis, process diagnosis, knowledge management, or change management tasks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees