Assistant Vice President - Analytics - CPG Domain

About the Position

The Global Business Services team is looking for an experienced and dynamic Senior Analytics Manager......You'll be working in the newly created Global Analytics Service (GAS) focused on the development and continuous improvement of analytics products, across all business functions. You'll be reporting to the Global Analytics Center of Excellence Lead. It is a global team, so there is significant exposure to senior and business stakeholders. You will focus on centralizing analytics products to the GAS and ensuring the products are what our customers (the business users) need and drive adoption.

A successful candidate will showcase an exceptionally strong mix of analytical and influential skills. They will be courageous in the face of uncertainty, and balance ambiguity with innovative thinking and strategic priorities. They must be an excellent translators/communicator and be able to earn the trust of stakeholders across all levels of the organization and third parties as well. They will be a true owner and have a superb track record of delivering analytical solutions.

Role / Responsibilities

- The candidate will lead the Global Analytics Service (GAS) day-to-day operations and will be responsible for the overall continuous improvement and development of analytics products that the GAS owns.

- The position holder will partner with zone and global solution development pods to build the roadmap of the transition of new products to the GAS. They will own the transition and centralization of analytics products from the business to the GAS, create the plan, and funding structure, and assemble the right product team resources to own the solutions.

- The Senior Analytics Manager will partner with business stakeholders and the business product owners to understand product roadmaps and visions. They will focus on keeping the products relevant for business users to drive adoption. They will then be responsible for the implementation and delivery of the product roadmap. They will also act as an escalation point for the Product Owners if any issues arise.

- The role will create processes and SLAs between the GAS and the business teams, to ensure a high service reliability. The candidate will be focused on customer service, providing a high-quality service to the business teams and ensure positive feedback and NPS scores for the GAS.

- The position holder will be expected to partner with IT teams and system leads to provide sound technical foundations for the GAS Products.

- The role will be expected to align stakeholders and secure funding to expand the GAS and execute the roadmap, and then manage the approved budget ($3M+).

Qualifications:

Technical skills relevant to the role:

- Bachelor or master's degree in a quantitative field such as engineering, computer science, math, statistics, data science, or a business-related field such as economics, finance, business management

- 8+ years of total experience with 5+ years in analytics, reporting or digital solutions for different functions inside a company (Revenue Growth Management, Marketing effective, supply chain, Financial planning & Analysis)

- Experience in implementing global solutions in CPG companies

- Experience in leading teams in large-scale consulting engagements and solutions implementation

- Experience in recruiting, training, developing and coaching talent

- Product mindset with hands-on experience in developing, implementing & delivery solutions

- Worked in an onshore-offshore model and multi-vendor model before

- Good understanding of analytical models and solutions, with business execution to drive change in client organizations

- Should be able to communicate seamlessly with both the analytics community as also the business community

- Ability to communicate clearly and present to senior leadership/executives.

- Enable and demonstrate innovative thinking and inspire innovative action

- Expertise in agile product management and delivery

- Experience in Data & Analytics and understanding trends in the industry

General business & management skills

- Extensive experience interacting & influencing C-level executives & working in a multi-functional domain.

- Excellent written & verbal communication skills. Proficiency in English where which is not a native language.

- Excellent presentation skills.

- Diverse product (or project) management experience, including managing products & product teams of different sizes and parallel working.

- Proven ability of agile product delivery including managing development teams.

- Proven ability to complete projects & deliver results in an ambiguous, fast-paced work environment.

- Proven strong leadership skills within the project team and in the business community.

- Proven ability to establish and articulate a vision, set goals, develop and execute strategies and track/measure results.

- Proven ability to build and motivate a team to achieve well-communicated expectations.

- Proven strong negotiating and consensus-building abilities.

- Proven skills to work effectively across internal functional areas in ambiguous situations.

- Minimum of Bachelor degree in MIS or equivalent IT field experience required.

- An ability to work effectively in a global-matrix organization is essential.

- Working knowledge of on-shore and off-shore application support management.