Job Overview

Analytics Delivery Lead – Octave: Data and Advanced Analytics Centre of Excellence

Key responsibilities:

• Manage delivery of analytical projects in partnership with business, IT and analytics team
• Lead pilot deployment of analytics projects to drive impact and sizing opportunities
• Lead development of pilot adoption metrics to track performance and prepare for scale-up
• Develop and communicate delivery goals, project plans, timelines, and key performance metrics to head of CoE and business stakeholders
• Actively build trust-based relationships with business leaders
• Identify new analytics opportunities in the organizational value chain
• Influence business teams and leadership to drive action through analysis and findings
• Manage resourcing through an analytics project delivery
• Actively facilitate development and stretch opportunities for the delivery team

Skills and Competencies:

Business Leadership

• At least 8 years of experience in business leadership roles, preferably in analytics or technology delivery roles
• Bachelors qualifications in a quantitative field (business, math, economics, finance, statistics, science, engineering); post-graduate qualifications are highly desirable
• Exceptional people leadership skills to drive cross-functional teams
• Strong project management skills to lead delivery of multiple projects in an ‘agile’ setting
• Successful track record of structuring and solving complex problems including developing, testing and preparing to scale up solutions
• Demonstrated ability to develop trust-based relationships with business leaders
• Ability to plan and execute multiple pilot project deployments
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate with business and technical teams

Domain Expertise

• Strong skills to identify and pursue new opportunities in the business value chain
• Deep knowledge of at least 1 vertical (Retail, Insurance, Beverages, Hotels and Technology) is highly desirable
• Ability to rapidly gain expertise in 3-4 functional business areas (ops, finance etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to drive high quality standards across technical and business teams
• Strong analytical skills to shape approaches to calculate business impact

Analytics

• Passionate about analytics with strong willingness to get upskilled in analytics methods and technologies
• Prior experience with analytics or technology is highly desirable

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