McGraw Hill is looking to fill a Business Unit Lead for Data & Analytics role to develop and deploy business intelligence datasets and reporting dashboards for one of their business units or corporate functions. This role will be responsible for setting and executing the strategy for this developing area, acting as a liaison between business units and the D&A team, and translating stakeholder requirements into D&A deliverables.
Requirements
- Demonstrated experience performing complex business intelligence, data warehousing, data mining, modeling, and data analysis work using SQL, Python, Alteryx, and/or similar tools etc.
- Demonstrated experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI, etc.
- Experience with statistical analysis packages used for data science.
- Experience Oracle applications and/or other enterprise software.
Responsibilities
- Act as the D&A lead responsible for understanding business needs and analyzing data from stakeholders to drive analytical support and/or initiate project escalation with D&A business partners.
- Collect, clean, and analyze data from various sources to identify trends, patterns, and insights to drive data-driven solutions and recommendations.
- Lead and manage the work intake and project management process for the prioritization of D&A project requests and related activities within the business unit.
- Create and define best practices for documentation of all key reporting, including identification of control processes and following appropriate change control processes.
- Demonstrated experience performing complex business intelligence, data warehousing, data mining, modeling, and data analysis work using SQL, Python, Alteryx, and/or similar tools etc.
- Demonstrated experience using data visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire, Power BI, etc.
- Experience with statistical analysis packages used for data science.
Other
- This highly cross-functional position is the primary liaison between the business units, the D&A team, and other enterprise teams and is responsible for gathering and translating stakeholder requirements into D&A deliverables.
- This role will require a mix of technical skills and business savvy and someone who can both dive into the data as well as converse with stakeholders on business priority and value.
- Partner with senior leadership to develop and execute on strategic initiatives for the Data & Analytics function, while expanding skills related to managing complex data & analytics and leadership capabilities in decision making and strategic planning.
- Remain creative, responsive and adaptive in a dynamic team environment and have the aptitude and desire to learn new competencies and the ability to independently, resourcefully, and creatively research and implement new solutions.
- Maintain effective working relationships with internal clients and partners.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work in a fast-paced, performance-driven environment.
- Ability to break down complex problems, identify root causes, and develop practical solutions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with well-established ability to interact well with others to accomplish organizational objectives.
- Effectively manage relationships with diverse stakeholders and align their expectations.
- Ability to work well independently and as a leadership member of a team; ability to lead and motivate a team.
- This is a remote position open to applicants within the United States.
