Business Analytics & Intelligence Manager

Business Analytics & Intelligence Manager

Job Description:

About the Role & Team

Do you love using data to answer complex questions? Then you may be interested in learning more about the Licensing Analytics team at Disney Consumer Products!

Our mission is to put our data assets to work and apply quantitative techniques to discover previously unknown insights about our licensing partners, retailers and consumers. We work directly with the major decision-makers who shape the Disney Consumer Products experience. Through our insights, we help form and improve Disney offerings.

This role sits onsite in Glendale, CA and reports to the Director, Licensing Analytics.

As a leader on the Americas Licensing Analytics team, you will support the Retail & Marketing teams, serving as the primary analytics lead for developing and facilitating analysis linked to owned retail and licensee data enhanced through industry & macro insights. You will also facilitate analyses and projects across cross-functional teams with direct and indirect leadership of analytics and data partners.

This includes support for evaluation of product performance, consumer & macro-economic trends, and industry shifts to inform strategic insights.

While every single day will be different, with rotating priorities, the main themes for this role include supporting a team of:

Analytics Transformation Enablers:
Help drive the technical transformation of our team by executing against and evolving a technology roadmap (focused on automating & structuring data loads and mapping), deploying self-service reports, defining a data architecture & governance strategy, and optimizing processes against business needs.

Creative Problem Solvers:
Our team navigates limited data availability and inconsistency. A key part of this role will involve identifying appropriate external data sources, reconciling data sets, identifying proxies, and clearly communicating the assumptions behind the analysis.

Data Coders, Visualizers & Storytellers:
Our team uses knowledge of visualization techniques to create compelling dashboards and intelligence tools to enable ease of interpretation of commercial performance metrics. This involves having the team code the backend processes to quickly access needed data and develop decks that synthesizes complex data into a compelling story.

Translate the business and analytical needs into data requirements to support timely data delivery, routine reporting, and in-depth analysis

Work in large and complex data environments to compile and curate data from a variety of domains and sources to build a foundation for DCP Licensing Analytics

Develop fully automated data pipelines and analytical tools to minimize time spent on data gathering and preparation

Collaborate closely with Technology partners to enhance data quality and governance

Leverage data analytics and visualization skills to conduct in-depth analysis with enhanced data streams and quality

Build & maintain the data foundation that enables self-service analytics, AI-driven insights, and scalable reporting

Stay up to date with industry trend on robotic automation & AI / ML to identify areas for process improvements

Develop easy-to-use tools and share best practices with peers to solve problem efficiently and effectively

Excellent in communication to translate technical terms into easy-to-understand outputs

Partner with IT to systemize planning process leveraging data from disparate sources

Be willing to be flexible with changing business needs and adaptable with work requests.

Experience leading the lifecycle of analytic products; from requirements gathering to data acquisition to presentation of results, and automation (where applicable)

Proficient project management skills; ability to organize and manage projects of varying complexity and length

Takes initiative and is a self-starter, with the ability to lead projects from inception to completion

Time-management skills, with ability to prioritize multiple requests…