Director- Data Strategy & Analytics

Location : San Jose

San Jose

The Director, Data Strategy & Analytics, is a business minded individual responsible for understanding the data needs across the enterprise and to develop and execute a roadmap to maximize data capabilities and business insights.

The Director is responsible for scaling the data function and transforming data into insights that inform strategy and decision making to support profitable growth.

Responsibilities :

• Guide the future direction of data strategy and processes, including intake, sources, database design and structure, data integrity and database tools.
• Transform data and information into insights that inform high-level strategy and tactical decision-making in support of revenue and profitability objectives.
• Be a champion for a data driven culture, lead a team of cross-functional analysts and support and train staff in data systems and reporting.
• Develop and execute a plan to maximize self-service capabilities for internal users and customers.
• Proactively communicate and collaborate with internal and external customers to ensure information needs are formalized and understood and be conversant in the functional requirements for information exchange.
• Oversee internal and external application / tool development, integration and support. Where required, supervise and evaluate external consultants.
• Implementing business intelligence and analytics solutions and gaining support of multiple stakeholders.
• Implementing formal data governance approach and increasing the maturity of the enterprise data capability and environment.
• Influencing and effecting business process changes to support an efficient and cost-effective business operations environment.

Qualifications :

• Masters or bachelor’s degree in one of the following : Analytics, Business Intelligence, Data Science, Economics, Engineering or Statistics.
• Strategic mindset with demonstrated experience in implementing data frameworks and driving continuous improvement.
• Expert communication skills and ability to influence leadership.
• Experienced manager with focus on coaching and mentoring cross functional team members.
• Strong teamwork skills in order to collaborate and build strong relationships with co-workers and internal clients to support development and implementation of business solutions.
• Project management skills plans, organizes, motivates, and controls resources to achieve specified project goals and objectives while respecting defined constraints.
• Decision making skills : Solicits and objectively considers input from appropriate sources; Considers implications of actions on other areas, people, and processes when deciding.
• Agility : Adapts approaches that are appropriate for each situation, Accepts and adapts to new situations.
30+ days ago