Director, Data Strategy and Analytics

October 23

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Great Minds

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Curriculum based on the Common Core State Standards • Liberal Arts • Advocacy • Curriculum development • Education

1001 - 5000

Description

• Great Minds is looking for an entrepreneurial and strategic analytics leader as Director, Strategy & Analytics • Manage and expand strategy & analytics function to assist leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Success to understand performance against KPIs • Build a culture and establish a system of data-driven performance management • Build modern, self-service analytics products and reporting tools • Coordinate with the Enterprise Applications and Data Team to support analytics tools • Operate as a player-coach, managing priorities and projects of analysts while conducting high-impact analyses • Facilitate business reviews with leadership regarding performance against KPIs • Conduct complex analyses to support strategic decision making and planning • Provide thought leadership to translate business problems into analytical frameworks • Support enterprise-wide projects to improve quality and integrity of data across systems • Build a sales and marketing analytics capability to support a high-growth sales engine • Lead and mentor a team of analysts and support staff

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in analytics, finance, management consulting or professional services with 5+ years in a leadership position • Experience leading a general strategy and analytics team or leading a sales and marketing analytics function • Exceptional intellectual curiosity with strong ability to lead with asking questions to understand and conceptual and strategic understanding of problems • Strong working knowledge of programming skills and ability to utilize a variety of data/analytic software/languages/tools (e.g., SQL, Python, R) and data visualization tools (e.g., PowerBI) • Strong working knowledge of data and systems from CRMs (e.g., Salesforce, Hubspot) and ERP (e.g., Intacct) systems • Understanding of modern analytics pipelines (e.g., gathering data, ETL, automation, engineering, databases and storage, reshaping/cleaning/calculations, analysis, visualization) • Exceptional ability to communicate clearly using presentation tools to tell a story through the data, with the confidence and composure to partner with executive management • Track record of leading simultaneous initiatives, requiring collaboration across teams and functional areas, with tight deadlines; ability to balance short- & long-term strategic implications to meet business objectives • Work ethic with the ability to adapt to the situation, be flexible, resourceful, and agile in terms of work planning, and the ability to think quickly on your feet • Technical expertise regarding data models, database design, data mining and segmentation techniques • Strong knowledge and understanding of experimental A/B test design and execution, analytic processes, predictive modeling, tools and technologies to drive solution development at scale. Be able to translate business requirements to analytical framework. • Interest in K-12 public education, and an understanding of how data is and can be used to drive change from leadership all the way to the classroom