Factspan Analytics - Senior Manager/Manager - Analytics

Position: Senior Manager

Location: Bangalore, India

Factspan Overview:

Established in 2012, Factspan is a leading pure play analytics company with expertise in converting data into actionable business insights. Our teams of mathematicians, statisticians and data scientists are experienced in various aspects of decision sciences. We complement such horizontal skills with knowledge of our clients- industries. As needed, we also supplement our US based teams with resources in cost effective locations such as India. Headquartered in Seattle, we also have offices Bangalore. Our clients include Fortune 100 companies in Retail, Financial Services, Insurance and Technology industries. Our Vision is to be the foremost player in the business analytics space.

Roles and Responsibilities:

- The key focus of this position will be around influencing the customer decision journey, improving Customer Experience & Retention using analytical methods and business intelligence.

- Oversee translation of roadmap to execution - working closely with analytics project managers on proof of concepts, data & technology teams on data & infrastructure readiness for scalable deployment

- End to end responsibility from defining to ensuring execution of analytics program, working closely with multiple client stakeholders and delivery teams

- Crafts innovative data and analytics representations that allow insights to be easily understood and extracted from large amounts of data and analytical output. As a practice leader, lead a team of people comprising of both direct and indirect reports and motivate the group through clear communication and strategy

- Lead project management - adherence of timelines and quality of delivery, forecast people requirement, business needs, manage and communicate with stakeholders, ensure that the teams follow operational discipline

- Prepares for engagement reviews and quality assurance procedure

- Communicate with stakeholders, establish review mechanism and governance rhythm to ensure program visibility and timely execution

- Is able to attract and retain high performing team members

- Research new methods of analysis, suggest areas of analysis to the team, understand clients- long-term analytics requirements and actively suggest methods to answer such needs

- Keep up with cutting edge analytics techniques and tools in the continuously evolving area of decision science

- Good Thought Leadership & ability to structure & solve business problems, innovating, where required

- Lead project/resource allocations with respective delivery leads.

- Mentor others by showing leadership in the areas of developing strategies, analytics methods, problem solving, work ethics and quality

- Consistently proposes and designs analysis and research projects on behalf of clients

- Establish strong rapport with key stakeholders, Senior Business Leaders,

- Participate in the sales process to scope client needs

- Lead knowledge sharing sessions in the team, participate in developing white papers and share new trends in analytics with colleagues and evolve one's own opinion on the concepts

Qualification & Experience:

- 8-12 years of experience into Analytics

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Statistics/Mathematics/Engineering

- Possess strong analytical/logical thinking skills

- Strong structured problem-solving skills

- Experience with statistical software such as SQL, R, etc.

- Self-starters, willing to work in a start up with the motivation to build the organization as the best in the industry

- Has a flair for numbers and is excited about solving business challenges using data

- Very good interpersonal skills, able to influence without authority, adaptable to changes and possess initiative and creative approaches

- Functional domain experience in marketing, customer relationship management, sales, or pricing function - preferably in travel, retail, technology or e-commerce industry

- Ability to manage and direct multiple priorities and meet aggressive deadlines in a fast paced environment.

- Must have excellent project/program management skills and have experience managing multiple work streams and projects at one time

Behavioural Attributes:

- Analytical thinking

- Requires the ability to think and plan strategically.

- The ideal candidate will be a high energy personality type who can mobilize staff around a goal and achieve it, has the ability to sustain high levels of activity over long hours, and has the mental energy to constantly seek better alternatives

- Strong skills in developing teamwork involving a multidisciplinary approach with staff

- Mental ability to deal with complex situations and individuals in distress

Reference Links:

- www.factspan.com

- https://www.linkedin.com/company/factspan-inc

- https://www.facebook.com/factspan

Interested & suitable candidates please share your profiles to pooja.trivedi@factspan.com