IT Data Analyst Role Description:
Position Summary
Senior Business analysts at P&G drive better decision-making and transform how P&G operates by influencing the key strategic decisions of General Management and by embedding analytics into our core work processes. The majority of business analysts are advisors to P&G’s senior leadership (General Manager’s +) keeping them abreast of current market & competitive dynamics and informing their on-going understanding of 1) our ability to deliver our business goals, and 2) how we should allocate our investments across our GM’s portfolio (markets & brands) of businesses to deliver the greatest returns.
Business Analysts at P&G are:
- Passionate about Analytics: Analytic skills are the foundation of this role. The ability to mine terabytes of data, derive actionable insights, and then translate those insights into business action is critical in our work. As a Senior Business Analyst, your will transform the business to enable better decision-making through the usage of advanced analytics. You will be the business’s primary evangelist for the power of predictive analysis and develop business cases to illustrate the “step-change” in decision-making that occurs when you begin to anticipate what will happen, versus just reflecting on what has occurred.
- Business Leaders: Business Analysts at P&G need to be effective communicators, self-motivated, and able to drive insights into actions that improve P&G’s business results. Business knowledge, interpersonal /communication skills are therefore a must to thrive in a multifunctional leadership team. Your job is to communicate complex data or algorithms into simple conclusions that will empower leadership to drive action based on the insights you derive.
- Technically Capable: P&G Business analysts “get their hands dirty”, leveraging data visualization (Spotfire), and analytic tools (R, SAS, JMP, etc) to grasp the business building insights in our mountains of data. You should be adept at leveraging such technologies for solving ad hoc business problems, innovating on potential future solutions, and working with technology partners to translate your innovations into robust, scaled, analytic solutions.
As a P&G business analyst you will be a part of an award winning BI community that is Global in scope, and operates across P&G’s core disciplines (Marketing, Sales, Product Supply, etc).
Desired Skills & Experience
- Masters or higher education in a quantitative degree (Statistics, Operation Research, Systems Engineering, Decisions Sciences, Applied Math, Economics etc..)
- Demonstrated success in effective leadership, problem solving and priority setting
- Strong English communication (presentation, written, and listening) skills
- Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work within diverse organizations and teams
- Desire/passion to transform how decisions are made through ad hoc & scaled application of analytics
- Demonstrated success at deriving insight from data and effectively communicating those insights to drive action
- Strong technical & analytical skill (R, SAS, SQL, optimization, predictive modeling, etc)
