Associate Manager

Overview

The person will be will be playing an active role in the BI Enablers Team as part of the Global - Europe Business Intelligence Center of Excellence.

The person should have very strong Business Intelligence skills and will play a critical role in executing key transformations of Global PPD. Driving simplification, standardization and self service capabilities agenda along with enhancing the platform by driving key initiatives that will further drive the adoption of the platform.

The person should be able to translate the business requirements into accurate IT/platform development plans and will manage platform development accordingly.

Provide leadership and review work done by team member/s

Alongside of this, the person will be the owner of the Multi-Sources reporting expansion (Household panel, Product preference, Brand preference).

Expect some strong data manipulation on excel, Tableau & PowerBI and heavy usage of Nielsen Retail Panel and Kantar/GFK/Ipsos Household Panel

Responsibilities

1. Own and be accountable for the continuous PPD transformation and development efforts: Design reporting and business intelligence products including visualizations & self-service tools. Manage project delivery, including estimating timelines and identifying risks
   • Collaborate with stakholders to get clarity on development briefs
   • Proceed with the platform development alongside and in collaboration with the Global BI GBS Team
   • Present products to business users and seek feedback for continued improvement
2. Make data meaningful using advanced visualization techniques to provide actionable insights and intuitive dashboards to a broad spectrum of stakeholders to accelerate decision making.

• Develop quick designs for data visualization and work iteratively to make them deliver the data and insights useful for data driven decisions

1. Expand PPD beyond Nielsen Retail Panel source with more multi-sources reports to drive more holistic and 360 performances reviews and assessments
2. Maintain documentation and user guides for created products
3. Follow the formal processes for Incidents, Change Requests, Deployments and Service Requests

• Troubleshoot complex issues and provide root cause analysis and recommendations for permanent solutions
• Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality. Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems. Ensure the processes are documented.

1. Work in an agile environment with the scrum team, participating actively in daily scrum and sprint planning to service the needs of the Business teams by delivering solutions.
2. Maintain strong collaboration & relationship across the board - Global BI Development team, Business teams, IT, Data Modeling and Architecture teams

Qualifications

• BTech/B.E./MCA from reputed institutes
• 5+ years of experience with Analytics and developing BI solutions - Expertise in Tableau and PowerBI
• Expert on Point of Sale (Nielsen, IRI, SPINs, One Click Retail etc.) databases/metrics a must
• Experience in performance tuning (pushdown logic, calculated columns and measures, data loading strategies, filtering data, variables)
• Experience in User-centered design, wireframing, knowledge of the data visualization concepts, Development of visualizations and interactivity depending on the context and overall focus on aesthetics
• Structured thinker / problem solver who works independently with attention to detail
• Good knowledge of handling databases and proficiency in SQL and Python
• Excellent communication & presentation skills (verbal & written) is mandatory. Confident communicator, able to express ideas and convey complicated concepts simply
• Experience working in an Agile team
• Must be detail oriented with excellent organizational/time management skills
• Top tier business intelligence / reporting / visualization skills
• Complete understanding of BI reporting platforms
• Comfortable with syndicated data analytics (especially Retail Panel)
• Solution-oriented approach to problem solving
• Strong analytical thinking with proven ability to connect data & to digestible representations to generate insights
• Experience in Change Management and Transformation journey of platforms will be an advantage
• Growth mindset, positive attitude & strong interest in solving client challenges and dealing with multiple issues
• Working in a fast moving, rapidly changing and dynamic environment