Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics
About The Position
The Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics owns complex projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype, and manages implementation risk. The role consults with senior leadership and business partners to understand goals, identify business challenges, develop mitigation tactics and success criteria, and provide actionable recommendations based on advanced research and analytical findings. The position develops data models and manages the creation, testing, and validation of prototypes and production-ready algorithms. It leads advanced analytics and data-analysis strategies to address business and technical problems, support data-driven decisions, and deliver strategic recommendations. The role collaborates with functional leadership, cross-functional teams, external business partners, and vendors. The position also builds and leads a team, coaches and mentors associates and managers, provides performance feedback, conducts career-development conversations where applicable, and supports team motivation and engagement.
Requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Business, Finance, Accounting, or a related field and 2 years of experience in data analytics or related experience; alternatively, a bachelor’s degree or equivalent in one of those fields and 4 years of experience in data analytics or related experience.
- Experience with strategic positioning, strategic marketing, value-based pricing, product marketing, and new-product or innovation strategy.
- Project management experience.
- Ability to convey complex business issues clearly, concisely, and impactfully.
- Experience with storyboarding, advanced PowerPoint slide building, and Excel modeling.
- Experience developing growth strategies and using market-assessment frameworks.
- Written communication and presentation skills, including advanced PowerPoint slide building and storyboarding.
- Ability to synthesize qualitative and quantitative findings into leadership-level presentations.
- Experience using Excel to structure and analyze large quantities of data.
- Experience conducting structured, time-bound competitive and market research, including use of major market-research sources and databases.
- Data analysis and modeling experience using MS Excel and SQL.
- Advanced MS Excel skills, including Pivot Tables and VBA.
- Ability to create and deliver strategic presentations for senior executives and translate complex data analyses into clear, actionable insights.
- Experience strategically managing business initiatives, including acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships for technology acquisitions.
- Experience synthesizing business insights using research methods such as subject-matter interviews, interview-transcript data analysis, and surveys.
- The employer will accept any amount of experience with the required skills.
Responsibilities
- Own complex projects end-to-end for a business area, category, or prototype, and manage risks associated with implementation.
- Consult with senior leadership and business partners to understand goals, identify business challenges, develop mitigation tactics, and define potential success criteria.
- Focus efforts on initiatives with maximum business impact and contribute actionable recommendations to strategic planning based on research and analytics.
- Develop data models and collaborate with project teams to implement modeling solutions.
- Manage the development, implementation, testing, and validation of prototypes and production-ready algorithms.
- Evaluate new data-analysis techniques and collaborate with software engineering, category management, and other partners on prototypes and algorithms.
- Lead advanced analytics to address business and technical problems and support data-driven decision-making.
- Make strategic recommendations to cross-functional leadership based on analysis results.
- Collaborate across analytics functions to develop and implement analysis strategies and anticipate future trends.
- Work with functional leadership and cross-functional teams to develop consultative solutions for complex projects.
- Collaborate and partner with external business partners and vendors.
- Build and lead a team to execute business-area or category objectives; coach, provide feedback, conduct performance and career-development conversations where applicable, and maintain team motivation and engagement.
- Mentor less experienced associates and managers.
Benefits
- Competitive pay and performance-based incentive awards.
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k).
- Stock purchase.
- Company-paid life insurance.
- Paid time off, including sick leave.
- Parental leave, family care leave, bereavement leave, jury duty leave, and voting leave.
- Short-term and long-term disability.
- Education assistance, including 100% company-paid college degrees.
- Company discounts.
- Military service pay.
- Adoption expense reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
