Analytics India Magazine - Manager - Business Analytics

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES :

- Strong commercial awareness, identifying opportunities to grow business and taking active part in Market objectives setting and prioritization.

- Interact regularly with Market leadership to set and manage expectations aligned to team's capabilities.

- Responsible for team resourcing and budgeting.

- Formulate analytics delivery plan. Develop and communicate strategic and operational goals and plan for the team.

- Managing market campaign delivery in accordance to monthly / quarterly revenue and GP targets.

- Design and develop state-of-the-art, data-driven exploratory analysis as well as predictive and decision models to solve business problems across the ad-tech industry.

- Plans hiring needs of the team in advance based on market goals, strategy, vision and ensures the team has right set of skills and expertise to deliver.

- Mitigating delivery risks in conjunction with Trader / Sales / Solution Engineers.

- Troubleshooting tech/product hindrance across challenging campaigns.

- Implement, enforce and monitor best practices, drive the Internal tool adoption in the market.

- Play key stakeholder role in internal tool development.

- Inspire and lead a talented team of analysts and data scientists.

- Responsible for mentoring team members and doing their performance review.

- Mentor the pod/region leads into more well-rounded managers and leaders.

REQUIRED EXPERIENCE :

- Minimum 6+ years of experience in business analytics or analytics consulting.

- At least 3 years of experience in project delivery management and people managed a team of 6-8 members.

- Demonstrated ability to set strategy/direction and follow through on execution while maintaining high levels of quality.

- Proven track record of exceeding performance expectations and delivering results.

- Ability to manage, coach and mentor leaders and team members.

- Proven problem-solving skills with the ability to anticipate roadblocks, diagnose problems and generate effective solutions.

REQUIRED SKILLS :

- Strong command of language with ability to communicate persuasively and effectively.

- A leader - someone who takes ownership of a task, builds a vision for it and inspires others around them to get behind it.

- The candidate will have strong technical knowledge including a grasp of programming languages.

- The candidate will have a strong understanding of big data solutions and analytical techniques.

- Organized & process-driven, thorough and structured approach to working.

- Ability to set good goals and objectives and write reviews for team members.

- Ability to lead through influence rather than direct authority.

- Ability to work well and productively, always projecting a positive outlook in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment.

EDUCATION : Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering or Mathematics/Statistics.