Manager, Data Analytics

Ameren•Saint Louis, MO

15h•Hybrid

About The Position

Responsible for the management, development, and overall leadership of a team focused on data analytics. This role involves generating reports and datasets, designing and developing methods to consolidate and analyze data from diverse sources for actionable insights, managing the daily data analytics for Ameren’s overall analytics portfolio, and developing analytics solutions to business problems. The position also includes developing, maintaining, and communicating dashboards and modeling to support business decisions. Key responsibilities include prioritizing analytics work, managing resource allocation, coaching junior co-workers on data analytics, modeling, data visualization, data science principles, agile development processes, and business partnership techniques. The role requires translating complex business requirements into data analytics solutions, implementing new visualization tools, and monitoring their performance. The manager will build and lead a team, conduct performance and career development conversations, and foster team motivation and engagement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in mathematics, statistics, computer science or business
5+ years of relevant experience
Previous people or project leadership experience
Strong knowledge of data visualization
Strong knowledge of data modeling
Strong analytical and creative thinking to address complex business problems
Understanding of agile and project methodologies and processes
Understanding of data science methodologies and processes

Responsibilities

Generates reports and regular datasets or report information for end users, using system tools and database or data warehouse queries and scripts.
Designs, develops and programs methods, processes and systems to consolidate and analyze structured and unstructured data from diverse sources to generate actionable insights and solutions for client services and product enhancement.
Manages the daily data analytics for Ameren’s overall analytics portfolio.
Develops analytics solutions to business problems; partners with the business to understand and solve problems.
Develops, maintains and communicates dashboards and modelling to support business decisions.
Prioritizes analytics work with junior co-workers for ongoing projects.
Manages resource allocation for the group.
Coaches junior co-workers on using in-depth knowledge and familiarity with data analytics and modeling in order to mentor and coach co-workers on applying analytics techniques, preparing reports, and data modeling.
Coaches junior co-workers on data visualization tools and techniques and trains/coaches co-workers in order to build visualization skills, understanding of visualization tools, and help work through complex issues.
Provides opportunities to collaborate with data science team on data collection and analysis of unstructured data sets, data science model development and machine learning.
Coaches junior co-workers on Agile software development processes and the development lifecycle.
Coaches junior co-workers on business partnership techniques and understanding the organization’s objectives, and the impact on own projects.
Demonstrates depth of experience translating complex business requirements in data analytics solutions and mentors/coaches co-workers on how to best support business needs.
Reaches across multiple functions to implement the new visualization tools and techniques into production and monitors their performance.
Builds and leads a team to execute on functional area objectives.
Builds and maintains team motivation and engagement.