The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The teams expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.
The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link .
Purpose of the role
The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute as a Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst. This role will report into Manager, DIV in India and functionally collaborate with the various verticals of General Mills.
The Data Insights & Visualization team caters to various reporting, visualization & insights initiatives to support and aid in decision making for various Operating Units and Business functions. The team operates in Agile manner and works in partnership with product teams to deliver turnkey BI solutions.
This individual contributor role of Sr. Business Intelligence Analyst would lead BI Ideation & consulting with the business & technical team and would be responsible to build/standardize/enhance BI solutions. The person will collaborate and partner with various D&T teams to collectively deliver on the problem statement through optimum, standardized & user-friendly solution.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
Product Design, Development & Analytics:
- Design, develop, test, automate, and launch new Business Intelligence visualization & reporting solutions leveraging tools such as Tableau, Looker, DOMO, Advance Excel, BigQuery, etc.
- Develop technical architectures and prototypes for solutions (dashboards, portal pages, metrics, etc.) through coordination with enterprise architect teams.
- Lead design, code & process review sessions to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and performance guidelines.
- Actively participate in various phases of the project including defining the core requirement, effort estimation, root-cause analysis, solutioning, development and deployment.
- Business engagement by conducting meetings/interviews and facilitating large-group/cross-functional sessions with customers, while containing the scope of the initiative.
- Apply thought leadership to deliver application of insights through absorbed domain/functional business acumen.
- Collaborate and contribute towards strategic and tactical decisions that impact decision support, product design and analytics.
- Expert level ability to develop visualization story using advance Business Intelligence tools that serve as a decision-making resource for business users.
- Partner with technical teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem.
- Perform in-depth analysis to identify key business data elements & metrics to enable insights.
Strategy & Collaboration:
- Play the role of translator by effectively dissecting business challenges into impactful dashboard designs and technical builds.
- Partner along with product team with business stakeholders to understand project requirements and lead BI engagement, execution & delivery.
- Detail-oriented, a strong communicator, incredibly curious, and technically capable with a desire to discover and deliver data-driven business insights to fuel our data-driven culture and help us make informed business decisions.
- Collaborate with teams across functions to set internal benchmarks, develop critical metrics for new initiatives, and recommend best practices.
- Coordinate triage efforts, resolve user issues and system improvements.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Bachelor s degree from accredited university (Full Time) in Business Analytics or a related subject area
8+ years of total experience with 6+ years of relevant experience working with business stakeholders and designing analytical solutions.
Extensive experience in creating interactive dashboards using Tableau (Expert) and other visualization tools (Basic) Domo, Looker, Business Objects, Advance Excel, SQL, etc.
Strong communication skills, capable of translating business requests into technical requirements and articulating the pros and cons of different technologies, platforms, design and architectural options.
Proficient in data and analytics tools and concepts, including dimensional modeling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing and both structured and unstructured data.
Basic understanding of data extraction using Google Big Query, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA
Proficient at influencing without authority, skilled at advising and negotiating with business leaders to develop high value solutions.
