Senior Analyst Bi.location blr

Job Purpose:

• To provide a high level of support on regular and ad-hoc reporting and functional analytics for the Europe, Asia-Pacific and US regions of Premier Farnell Group.  To be a functional lead (Specialist Area) for the Reporting & Analytics team – (Specialist Area = Marketing & Customer Analytics, Supply Chain Analytics, Sales and Forecasting, Pricing Analytics).

• Communication and stakeholder management skills
• Managing functional area with team of 6 people
• Recruitment and development of team members

and support the team with the delivery of complex ad-hoc queries and reports as required and to agreed levels of service and quality.

• When required, routine data extraction. Manipulate data and provide reports in line with customer requirements.
• Building relationships with leaders across business within given specialist area, including building ongoing knowledge of specialist area
• Delivery of large scale complex analytics projects in specialist area.
• To learn and understand the complex databases and data extraction techniques used in order to produce meaningful reporting.
• Responsible for process documentation and standardisation within team
• Automate standard reporting wherever possible.
• Support through analytics the delivery of multiple concurrent projects.

• Coaching and mentoring junior colleagues in both technical and commercial awareness.
• Working with stakeholders across multiple regions and time zones.
• Effective use of complex data tools
• Ability to deal with complexity and highlight roadblocks at an early stage.
• Developing methods of data analysis and associated reporting that are relevant to business needs
• Working to tight deadlines
• Understanding work which can be simple in principle but is conducted within a complex environment
• Sharing knowledge, processes and disciplines across the Analytics & reporting Team
• Working within a rapidly changing business environment
• Responding to business requests whilst conducting core work to a high standard
• Holistic view of the team workloads to avoid duplication direct from stakeholders.

• In depth commercial experience of at least 1 of:

- Marketing Analytics

- Supply Chain Analytics

- Sales Support Analytics

• Advanced level Excel (6+yrs experience) – visual basic a bonus.
• Advanced SQL – either MS/Oracle/Teradata etc. 4+yrs experience.
• Advanced SSRS required, SSIS and SSAS a bonus.
• Manager of teams of 6 people
• Experience working in an international organisation
• Exceptional written and verbal English language skills.
• Proven ability to communicate with senior leaders and peers locally and remotely across multiple time zones.
• High levels of accuracy and numeracy.
• A working approach based on a strong desire to understand the work and not just follow a process.
• Customer focussed.
• Experience of quality control / UAT on regular and ad hoc report delivery for own work as well as Junior Analysts.
• Proven ability to work on multiple projects at the same time.
• Qualified by education or experience.