Project Leader, Decision Analytics - Enterprise Data Products

Position Purpose

The Project Leader acts as the analytics lead overseeing the end-to-end lifecycle of data products from ideation through launch and ongoing optimization, in order to ensure high-quality, trusted results and the delivery of measurable business value. This role bridges business, analytics, and engineering teams to define data strategies and deliver scalable solutions, in order to enable data-driven decision-making across the enterprise.

Supports Data Product Managers in multiple domains like Customer, Sales, and Products in developing complex analytical attributes and new business metrics, in order to ensure datasets can support high value data science and analytics use cases.

• Provides project planing and timeline management for the project.
• Overall responsibility for ensuring that the end result of development activity meets the business need.
• Coordinates the activities of staff and senior analysts including:
• Business process evaluation
• Procedure development
• System process flow and requirements
• QA planning and testing
• Implementation planning
• Documentation
• User training
• Production support for problems/enhancements
• Ensures adequate communication and proper integration across departments, systems and platforms.
• Selects, develops, and motivates assigned staff.

• This position typically reports to a Systems Manager or a Finance Manager.
• This position may have management responsibility for as many as thirteen salaried employees, including as many as seven supervisors.
• Typically requires highly developed interpersonal skills for dealing with sensitive or controversial situations.
• Typically faces situations that have a variety of interpretations and require careful evaluation.
• Typically considers among many different options or procedures when solving problems.
• Typically progress or results of work is periodically checked. Has some leeway to change work procedures.

• Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

• Frequent periods are spent standing or sitting in the same location with some opportunity to move about; occasionally there may be a need to stoop or lift light objects (typically less than 8 pounds).

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
• Under regular pressure to meet deadlines, quotas and/or must frequently deal with difficult issues related to people or situations.

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

• A Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Business or Computer Science is preferred.
• Nine plus years experience in Systems Development is preferred

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

• No additional education

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• Experience in project management and an understanding of standard systems environment.
• Prior experience with quality assurance, training, documentation or as a business systems liaison is helpful.
• Track record of success at implementing large scale, complex projects.
• Excellent communication skills.