Senior Manager - Data Analytics

• Effective communicators: People who regularly share relevant status updates and effectively articulate issues and recommendations to stakeholders and senior management.
• Goal-oriented orchestrators. People who can effectively coordinate and focus the work of skilled employees toward an important goal, prioritizing to the right activities that lead to success.
• Accuracy-oriented team leaders. Providing direct oversight of processes and results, managers who ensure accurate and timely completion of projections, forecasts or reporting.
• Metrics-oriented managers. People who are always tracking important business metrics to ensure projects meet expectations and budget.
• Collaborative partners: People who build and leverage cross-functional relationships to bring together ideas, information, use cases, and industry analyses to develop best practices.

• Lead the design and deployment of tailor-made integrated operational and digital transformation programs in line with business requirement.
• In close collaboration with business leadership, identify and define improvement opportunities that support the business’ strategic objectives.

• Manage the analytics and data transformation portfolio using appropriate analytics framework.
• Provide expertise and advice to business leaders to accomplish the desired outcomes.
• Develop customized dashboards, optimization models for inventory, procurement, logistics, forecasting, Sales & Operations, and shop-floor scheduling planning processes.

• Identify key business metrics (Financial & Operational) and populate them on regular basis.
• Generate leads and build project pipeline (Business Development) by ensuring faster turnaround of improvement projects and establishing success stories in quick succession.
• Create and deploy effective BPI branding and communication strategy.
• Participate in analytics projects and business initiatives as they arise in SC operations.
• Develop mathematical / analytical models for resolving complex business problems.
• Create dashboards / applications using Power BI, Power Apps, Tableau, MS-Access and advanced excel.
• Build organizational capability improvement framework around innovative solutions, latest trends and methodologies and ensuring all staff are adequately trained on appropriate tools and techniques.
• Define annual BPI operating plan in-line with business strategy (Hoshin Kanri; X-Matrix approach) and deliver the annual BPI strategic plan by executing and mentoring projects having wide business impact

• 12 – 15 years of demonstrated program management experience in more than one discipline (Logistics, Operations, Finance, R&D, Customer Management, etc.).
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• Project Management and Lean Six Sigma certification desired but not essential.
• Strong analytical mindset, able to turn data into information.
• Must be fully qualified and have delivered analytical solutions using Business Intelligence (BI) tools, R, Python, SQL Coding, Java Coding, Alteryx, data crunching, advanced excel modeling, VBA coding & macro writing.
• Lean/Six Sigma certification or equivalent experience with problem-solving methodologies; experience with both small- and large-scale business transformation, organizational transformation, and process redesign
• Business-savvy individual with ability to drive key business outcome
• Financial acumen and ability to develop compelling business cases – tie operating metrics to the financial metrics.
• Highly developed communication, collaboration and influencing skills, including ability to create stakeholder buy-in.
• Must be fully qualified and have delivered Program/Project methods, techniques, and terminology in significant Programs.
• Excellent analytical skills.
• Demonstrated strategic capabilities, problem solving and change management skills.
• Excellent interpersonal communication, listening, influencing and management skills.
• Demonstrated experience in collaborating at all levels of the organization.
• Demonstrated leadership and experience in leading without authority.
• International Travel could be at 20-30% given the business needs

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