Senior Manager of Data Analytics
About The Position
The Greater Chicago Food Depository is hiring a Senior Manager of Data Analytics on the Research, Evaluation and Business Analytics team. The Senior Manager will be joining a team committed to informing strategic and transparent decision-making across the organization in service of our mission to end hunger. The Food Depository distributes food through our network of partner agencies and programs, including mobile distributions and responses for children, older adults and veterans. The Senior Manager will be both a manager of data analysts and an individual contributor. The role will be focused on business analytics, utilizing internal data for developing reports and supporting strategic decision making. The Senior Manager will oversee data analysts providing direct analytics support to internal departments. The Senior Manager will also use data analytic tools to conduct quantitative analysis, develop new reports, improve existing reports, create dashboards, and visualize data. This role will work collaboratively across the team as well as across departments at the organization with diverse stakeholders, including senior leaders, subject matter experts, and data analysts.
Requirements
- 6+ years of data analytics experience
- Experience managing data analyst / business intelligence roles
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to generate and communicate actionable insights
- Proficiency in SQL, Excel, and one or more analytics languages (Python, R)
- Strong experience with BI platforms (Power BI preferred)
- Strong written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate technical information in a clear and concise manner
- Ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
- Ability to learn new data systems and tools quickly and to comply with data integrity and security to safeguard all personal identifiable information
- Experience managing projects across multiple stakeholders
- An ability to juggle both long-term, strategic projects and ad hoc, urgent requests as needed
- Commitment to the Food Depository’s mission of ending hunger
Nice To Haves
- Experience in Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Public Policy, or related field preferred
Responsibilities
- Lead full life cycle activities of data analytics to inform business decisions, including data cleaning, determining analytics approach and tools to use in analysis, linking databases and data sets, conducting analysis, visualizing data, and developing reports
- Manage Data Analysts team members
- Maintain and improve existing reports to provide insights for strategic decision-making
- Collaborate across departments on improving data quality and use
- Manage multiple projects, develop project plans, and monitor progress and performance
- Support project teams to identify, document, and verify needs of stakeholders
- Work collaboratively across internal and external stakeholders
- Effectively communicate technical and general information in an accessible and clear way to technical and non-technical audiences
- Develop expertise in organization’s business processes, data, and systems
- Other duties as assigned
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance coverage
- Employer-paid life and disability insurance employee assistance program
- 403(b) retirement plan with employer contribution
- Generous paid time off
- Parental leave
- On-site gym
- $3,000 annual employer-paid thrivepass liifestyle and wellness benefit program
- $250 employee referral program
Stand Out From the Crowd
Upload your resume and get instant feedback on how well it matches this job.
What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
