Provide management of a team that delivers analytics within a business unit, leveraging data as a strategic enabler to generate insights that optimize strategic and operational decisions. Improves the business unit's understanding and use of analytics and improves the efficiency for how analytics are performed.
Provide direction to the team on a daily basis
Collaborate with leadership to monitor and communicate key performance indicators and to understand the reasons behind the performance
Actively analyze trends to find business opportunities and risks in order to optimize business outcomes
Collaborate with the Enterprise Analytics team to ensure the business analytics team's processes and practices align with Enterprise standards and the Enterprise Analytics Strategy
Guide the appropriate use of analytical concepts and statistical techniques: creation of hypotheses, test/experiment design, data analysis, summarization of findings, and delivery of actionable recommendations for business units
Provide end users with accurate, actionable and insightful information
Identify opportunities to generate and collect new data to improve insights
Leverage experience in data querying to ensure integrity and quality of the team's work
Guide the creation of effective data visualizations to tell a story - expose patterns, trends, opportunities and risks
Champion effective data governance within the business unit to improve data integrity, quality and understanding
Drive transformational change and analytics aptitude among leaders and users within the business unit to empower a more informed and effective business
Apply knowledge of data modeling techniques to enable self-service analytics and to balance the scope of the models against response times
Engage in planning to meet daily, quarterly, operational goals; plan and execute department level projects
Determine and develop best practices in relation to business procedures
Assure effective communications are maintained within and beyond the team; where appropriate involve senior level management and employees in plans, and advise on progress towards meeting goals
Job Specifications
Typically has the following skills or abilities:
Bachelor's degree in related field or equivalent experience
Minimum of 3 years of management experience with responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work and managing performance of direct reports
Excellent leadership and visionary abilities
Ensures the appropriate use of descriptive statistical techniques to solve business problems
Approaches business challenges with creativity and an understanding of data to design analytical approaches that answer core business questions.
Preferably able to understand the use of predictive modeling and machine learning and to identify business problems where those can be applied
Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties
For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment.
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Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please click here.
Salary Ranges: $73,500.00 - $131,250.00
