VSP Vision is looking to leverage data to improve business monitoring, decision management, and optimize business decisions and outcomes through advanced analytics and statistical techniques.
Requirements
- 6+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data, generating insights and communicating those effectively with colleagues and leaders
- Proficient in building complex data queries using SQL in order to join, filter, cleanse and aggregate data; understanding of how no/low-code applications apply SQL concepts to do the same
- Proficient in designing data workflows and business-oriented data models against relational database structures
- Proficient in visualization and dashboard design techniques to create interfaces that monitor business performance against KPIs and highlight trends/patterns
- Proficient in using data exploration and analysis platforms such as PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS or similar
- Experience applying statistical modeling to evaluate complex business problems and develop forecasting and what-if scenarios
- Familiarity with Data Science techniques and experience in the use of notebooks (i.e. Jupyter) with programming languages like Python and R
Responsibilities
- Lead engagements with business leaders and staff to clarify needs and define business requirements for strategic data use; where possible anticipates and proposes opportunities for analysis and exploration in support of business optimization and decision-making
- Support decision-makers by performing data exploration, analysis and statistical inference to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets and detect influences, opportunities and risks
- Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios and recommendations in consultation with leaders to support strategic/tactical planning and operational decision-making
- Lead the creation of dashboards, visualizations and reports to support business performance monitoring, automating where possible, to support stakeholders’ ability to be data driven
- Work collaboratively with the enterprise analytics and information management team to articulate business needs for new/revised data models and views/access to the data
- Produce business-specific workflows and data models for analysis using enterprise analytics and data management tools, including the integration of external data sets that are approved for use
- Serve iterative business needs by developing prototype models that join large volumes of data across multiple data domains to deliver views for use by other analysts; understands the modeling techniques for ensuring integrity and responsiveness in those deliverables
Other
- Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related functional area; or equivalent experience
- Prior experience in successfully leading analytics projects in one or more of the following domains/business functions: Financial Management and Forecasting, Risk Assessment, Insurance Utilization and Pricing, Supply Chain Optimization, Retail Management, eCommerce Management, Consumer Behavior Analysis, Marketing Optimization or Healthcare Management
- Possesses strategic skills, business acumen and curiosity to envision opportunities, document requirements and collaborate for successful outcomes
- Capable of mentoring others to elevate the collective skills of the team
- Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation and analytical skills
