Lead Data Analyst

Role Overview

Roles and Responsibilities: -

• Identify opportunities and partner with key stakeholders to set priorities, manage expectations, facilitate change required to activate insights, and measure the impact
• Deconstruct problems and goals to form a clear picture for hypothesis generation and use best practices around decision science approaches and technology to solve business challenges
• Can guide team to Integrate custom analytical solutions (e.g., predictive modeling, segmentation, issue tree frameworks) to support data-driven decision-making
• Monitors and manages project baseline to ensure activities are occurring as planned - scope, budget and schedule – manages variances
• Anticipates problems before they occur; defines the problem or risk; identifies possible causes; works with team to identify solutions; selects and implements most appropriate solution
• Identifies potential points of contention for missed deliverables; creates and implements strategy to mitigate shortfalls in timeline and budget
• Develop and manage plans to address project strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats
• Translate and communicate results, recommendations, and opportunities to improve data solutions to internal and external leadership with easily consumable reports and presentations.
• Expected to act independently to deliver projects to schedule, budget and scope; support provided as required and requested, and is self-driven and motivated
• Able to manage multiple clients, lead technical client calls and act as a bridge between product teams and client
  

Experience Required

• 9 plus years experience.
• Experience in design and review of new solution concepts and leading the delivery of high-impact analytics solutions and programs for global clients
• Should be able to apply domain knowledge to functional areas like market size estimation, business growth strategy, strategic revenue management, marketing effectiveness
• Have business acumen to manage revenues profitably and meet financial goals consistently. Able to quantify business value for clients and create win-win commercial propositions.
• Must have the ability to adapt to changing business priorities in a fast-paced business environment
• Should have the ability to handle structured /unstructured data and have prior experience in loading, validating, and cleaning various types of data
• Should have a very good understanding of data structures and algorithms
• This is a Remote (work from home) position.
• Experience leading and working independently on projects in a fast-paced environment
• Management skills to manage more than one large, complex projects simultaneously
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills (includes negotiation)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  

Must have technical skills: -

• IT background with experience across the systems development life cycle with experience in all project phases – plan, initiate, elaborate, design, build, test, implement.
• Working knowledge of market-leading data analytics tools such as - Spotfire, Tableau, PowerBI, SAP HANA is desired
• Domain experience of retails/Ecom is plus
• Well versed with advance SQL/Excel
• Good with any scripting language/data extraction in Python/R etc.
• Working knowledge of project management methodology, tools and templates (includes program/project planning, schedule development, scope management and cost management)