Senior Manager Data Analytics

Senior Manager Data Analytics

Company Generac Power Systems

Name Senior Manager Data Analytics

Req # 65015

Employment Type Full Time

Shift 1st

It’s a challenge and an invitation. Most importantly, it’s an opportunity to join an industry leader that’s shaping the market and investing in its people, along with new growth and technologies. Our rapid growth equals rapid career advancement opportunities for those who want to be challenged and enjoy a fast-paced, high-performance culture. We focus on personal and professional development; encourage learning on the job and being a supportive team member; and hope each day of work brings purpose and pride.

**Job Summary: ** The Senior Manager Data Analytics and Insights will interact cross functionally to mine multiple sources of data enterprise-wide, derive actionable insights, and translate complex results into simple conclusions to empower others to solve business problems. This role is a primary driver of delivering insights to educate and influence key business decision-making with our teams. You will lead and improve analytical programs, communicate the results of your business unit/ category to leaders, and conduct consumer research.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Interact with the business groups to collect VOC, identify opportunities, build insight project backlog & long-term insights project roadmap:

Work with business group and corporate functional leadership to understand business needs and opportunities that could be solved for through data analytics

Participate in business group and corporate functional monthly results meetings to gain a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities of each business group so that insights generated will be aligned with business needs

Maintain a backlog of project opportunities and long-term data insights project roadmap

Collaborates with multi-functional teams including representatives from marketing, research, analytics, sales, IT, connectivity, etc. to generate voice of customer, voice of business

Deliver Insights leading to business results through leadership of an indirect data analytics team:

Deliver business results such as revenue, share and cost reduction generated from data-based insights

Identify additional data sources to mine that will further enhance the quality and delivery of critical insights

Sponsor and charter analytics projects to generate insights that result in business improvements; sales opportunities, close rate improvements, up-time improvements, warranty reduction. (Revenue increases, Margin improvement, post-sale COGs reduction, Uptime improvement,

Need to mine multiple sources of data, derive actionable insights, and translate complex results and algorithms into simple conclusions that will allow internal stakeholders to take action resulting in business “wins”

Leverage data analysts and data scientists throughout the Generac enterprise to generate analytics insight opportunities and deliver on the analysis leading to improved business process and results

Builds an indirect team of data professionals to identify insight opportunities and fulfill the analysis to results

Guide the data team to identify and bring together multiple data sources to create robust/accurate insights

Work with cutting edge capabilities such as machine learning and artificial intelligence to build algorithms that can guide business process and go-to-market strategies.

Management of Analytics and Insights (metrics & reporting, build an indirect team, identify data gaps):

Influence the data strategy for Generac to improve usability and access of data sources throughout the enterprise

Influences Generac’s data professionals across the enterprise to build a data strategy that allows for easier extraction of data-based insights to be used across the organization

Recommend projects to automate the data insight process to allow for increased bandwidth and speed

Delivery of insights through reports, dashboards, executive report outs

Designs and directs the work of the team. Selects, coaches and develops staff. Inspire and motivate the data, analytics & insights team. provide feedback and administering progressive discipline when necessary.

Support ad-hoc analysis needs of the connectivity team

Delivers analytics to the organization in support of lead generation, data, analytics strategy and objectives

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in business, marketing, data analytics, or other relevant degree or equivalent experience

Experience conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis with analytics techniques to solve defined business problems

Leadership experience

Experience with query databases (ex: SQL, Apache Hive, or Apache Phoenix)

Experience with one or more statistical analysis tools (ex: MatLab, MiniTab, SPSS, or R)

Experience with statistical analysis languages (ex: R, Python, SAS, or Stata)

Preferred Qualifications:

Analytic model build

Strategic insights

Data engineering

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to create and lead though influence and coach an indirect team of data analysts and data science professionals to deliver insights from the available data sources

Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and prioritize personal time as well as the indirect data analysis team’s time to deliver on projects efficiently

Effective communication skills: able to communicate with various audiences from sales and product developers to C-level executives. Communications may take the form of verbal, presentations, or dashboards. Story telling is a plus.

Ability to convey confidence in conclusions and insights presented

Ability to understand complex datasets and how to derive insights from them

Ability to map out business opportunities and prioritize to maximize business benefit and results

Ability to influence across departments without direct authority

Business acumen (income statement, margin analysis, budgets, forecasting)

**Physical Demands: ** While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear; and use hands to manipulate objects or controls. The employee is regularly required to stand and walk. On occasion, the incumbent may be required to stoop, bend, or reach above the shoulders. The employee must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds. Specific conditions of this job are typical of frequent and continuous computer-based work requiring periods of sitting, close vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Occasional travel.

“We are an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.”