Lead Analyst, BI & Analytics

As part of the Business Intelligence team, the Lead Analyst, BI & Analytics is responsible for providing business insights to management by analyzing current trends and new initiatives in sales, gains, losses, margin and other key performance indicators to drive strategic and operational performance improvements. This Lead Analyst role supports OOS Market growth. This role works to provide insights to leadership in support of existing portfolio management and pursuit of new growth opportunities., *Provide deep-dive analytics in pursuit of value accretive opportunities in the OOS territories; deliver key insights by uncovering root causes for trends in sales, gains, and losses *Provide deep-dive analytical support for various sales channels, including campaign, vendor and broker performance metrics *Utilize analytics, competitive intelligence, market research and business experience to make recommendations *Conduct reporting and analytical work in support of those efforts utilizing cutting edge visualization and analytical tools *Actively participate in cross-functional initiatives, providing expertise, offering original perspectives and challenging conventional views *Analyze financial impact of trends and opportunities leveraging business metrics of success such as NPV, PV/I etc. to develop financially justifiable recommendations; build relevant business cases; perform sensitivity analyses for key assumptions and market scenarios

*3-5+ years of relevant industry experience *Demonstrated sill in extracting and analyzing large volume of data using SAS / SQL *Experience with big data technologies like Hadoop/HANA, Voice Analytics desirable *Experience in creating visual dashboards using tools like Tableau *Strong problem solving and analytical skills *Experience in a customer-focused role *Excellent interpersonal and communication skill *Experience gained through college degree programs and/or certifications is applicable to above skills

Key Metrics

*Deliver timely reporting and analyses of the highest integrity and quality *Develop clear, concise, and effective executive level reporting and presentations *High level of initiative in terms of learning the business and designing valuable analyses *Ability to derive insights from complex data for presentation and decision making *Strong technical skill set - SAS, SQL, R, Tableau *Excellent consulting and negotiating skills