Project Leader - Decision Analytics Job Atlanta area,Georgia USA,IT/Tech

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Position

Purpose:

The Project Leader Decision Analytics position assists in the development of advanced analytics to support the company’s strategic objectives. The role works cross-functionally with business partners from Merchandising, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain, Online and IT to design and implement decision analytics, tools, and new visibility/reporting capabilities. This role has responsibility for creating analytics, translating business questions to actionable insights, supporting ongoing analytical needs, designing new analytical tools, collaborating with cross-functional teams, and owning end-to-end project portfolios to deliver high quality analytical solutions for The Home Depot.

This role is expected to leverage effective communication skills to translate complex analyses into understandable insights, with a passion to learn and develop.

Key Responsibilities:

40% Project Control – Develop an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, monitor execution, and coordinate documentation to explain changes or potential baseline changes and ensure approved changes are implemented.
30% Project Communications – Develop an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and stakeholders. Produce written status reports, scorecards, and presentations for senior leadership.
10% Project Risk Assessment – Lead the definition of project risks and required mitigation approaches. Monitor project activities for risks, escalade or mitigate promptly, and advise team and stakeholders of actions required/completed.
10% Project Lessons Learned – Capture key lessons learned at completion of a project or phase, communicate to peer Project Leaders, and apply them to future projects.
10% Project Environment – Share responsibility for creating a positive environment, ensuring teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities understood, and inclusive environment maintained.

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

Reports to Sr Finance Manager.
This role has no direct reports.

Travel Requirements:

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

Physical Requirements:

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position, with frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

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

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years of experience in SQL, SAS, Tableau, R, Python and similar tools; strong working knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
MBA / Master’s degree in Analytics, Finance, or Information Systems or related field.
Prior experience in corporate finance, retail, or analytics.

Minimum Education:

Knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired via completion of a bachelor’s degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education:

No additional education.

Minimum Years of

Work Experience:

3 years.

Preferred Years of

Work Experience:

No additional years of experience.

Minimum Leadership

Experience:

None.

Preferred Leadership

Experience:

None.

Certifications:

None.

Competencies:

Ability to perform detailed analyses as well as create executive summaries of the analyses.
Ability to present and defend own work and work of others to senior leadership.
Ability to work independently.
Ability to influence the decisions of individuals that you do not supervise.

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