Associate Director - IT Lead

Job description

Overview

·  Be a strategic partner with the business to define the capability roadmap for products and services.
·  Lead the delivery for data and advanced analytics for Net Revenue Management (NRM)
·  Manage New Business Requirements / Work Intake / Project delivery.
·  Be the IT Product Owner driving the development and adoption of the analytics product for NRM.
·  As IT Product Owner for GNRM Analytics Hub, manage the deployment and sustain of the solution for 65+ markets/categories, NRM Strategic Playbooks supporting GBS and NRM New Reality Metrics for PEC. Partner with the Business Product Owner in driving adoption across the markets.
·  Be the IT/ GNRM SME for RevM Predictive Scenario/ What-if analysis product for NRM
Responsibilities

·  Lead delivery of 4-6 complex ideas and projects for Data and Analytics within time and budget independently with minimal supervision
·  Drive solution design and build to ensure scalability, performance and reuse.
·  Ensure on time and on budget delivery which satisfies project requirements, while adhering to enterprise architecture standards.  
·  Manage work intake, prioritization and release timing, balancing demand and available resources. 
·  Ensure tactical initiatives are aligned with the strategic vision and business needs.
·  Manage partnership with vendors.
·  Manage resource planning to align # of resources to scope of work and funding.
Qualifications

Years of Experience

·  Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, MIS, Business Management, or related field
·  8+ years’ experience in Information Technology or Business Relationship Management
·  6+ years’ experience in data and analytics tools and technologies

Mandatory Technical Skills

·  Excellent remote collaboration skills
·  Experience working in a matrix organization with diverse priorities.
·  Solutions Delivery experience - expertise in system development lifecycle, integration, and sustainability
·  Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in project management
·  Proven experience in managing Data, BI or Analytics projects.
·  Thorough knowledge of data warehousing concepts, advanced analytics capabilities and data catalog tools

Mandatory Non-Technical Skills

·  Exceptional written and verbal communication skills along with collaboration and listening skills.
·  Ability to work with agile delivery methodologies.
·  Ability to ideate requirements & design iteratively with business partners without formal requirements documentation. 
·  Ability to budget resources and funding to meet project deliverables.
·  Ability to take major ownership in orchestrating workshops with IT/Business teams and facilitate interactive sessions on data and analytical solutions.
·  Experience in developing business case and TCO analysis drawing tangible connections between strategy and financial-success metrics
·  Excellent communication and strong inter-personal skills

Differentiating Competencies

·  Ability to take major ownership in orchestrating workshops with IT/Business teams and facilitate interactive sessions on data and analytical solutions.
·  Experience in developing business case and TCO analysis drawing tangible connections between strategy and financial-success metrics
·  Conceptual selling to present recommendations in a simple, compelling, business relevant manner with clear impact analysis, as well as excellent collaboration and influencing skills to drive compliance to IT standards and guidelines across the enterprise.