Director, Data Analytics

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General Summary This position requires a unique balance of technical, data and analytical expertise and a business strategist mindset. This role is responsible for overseeing multi-disciplinary teams in the building of data sources, data pipelines and the application of a broad array of analytics tools and predictive models to deliver data driven insights; and, then translating these insights into business value.

This is a leadership position that requires strong partnerships across key business areas to advance the use of analytics. This position is expected to provide strategic analytical input using new data assets and tools to improve, and transform as needed, existing business processes, customer experience, and business results. This position requires the ability to lead a data and analytics team in real business applications;

the individual will be a critical bridge between data and analytics development and business partners to help optimize business performance.

• Responsible for defining their team's analytics strategy in partnership with Leadership across the organization.
• Define the tools, methodologies and staff mix utilized by the team as well as project priorities for the department.
• Define, develop and implement best practices in support of data & analytics projects to drive consistency and standardization of data usage and analytics practices.
• Drive business stakeholder buy-in for data consumption, operationally and analytically.
• Responsible for recruiting, training, performance management, coaching, development and retention of staff is at its highest level.
• Builds bench strength, retaining and motivating high performers.
• Oversees the construction of predictive models, data pipelines and analytics workflows in the support of operational and analytics objectives.
• Will also meaningfully contribute to the development of these assets as necessary.
• Work with partners to translate business needs into a technical plan, identify available data, communicate findings and results, and develop implementation strategies.
• Provides consulting support to business areas around conformance to corporate policies/procedures and controls, compliance as needed.
• Understand theory and application of current and emerging analysis methods and data tooling to drive and recommend continuous improvement opportunities.
• Identify internal and external data sources, construct…