Lead Data Analyst - Hybrid

Summary:The Lead Data Analyst within Sales Enablement is responsible for leveraging advanced analytics to empower the sales organization with actionable insights and data-driven strategies. This role leads complex quantitative and qualitative analysis to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities that optimize sales processes and performance. As a strategic partner to senior leaders and business stakeholders, you will deliver impactful dashboards, forecasts, and recommendations that enhance decision-making and drive revenue growth. With deep expertise in data modeling and visualization, you will champion best practices, foster innovation, and collaborate across teams to strengthen sales enablement capabilities and support organizational success.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Leads expert level quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in order to drive business decisions and address business questions

• Creates and is accountable for high quality, value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and innovation in work

• Delivers results to Business Clients and Sr. Dept Leaders

• Delivers results, insights and recommendations (written, verbal, presentations, etc) to business audience to support business decisions

• Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, display root cause analysis of problems, and recommend solutions

• Deep expertise in a least one business area or domain, with a broad understanding of the business and domains surrounding the main focus. Ability to articulate this knowledge as an expert at the enterprise level and may be called on to provide insight at the senior leadership level to provide detailed analysis.

• Seeks to understand business process, user tasks, and as necessary, captures refined process documents

• Shares best practices with peers through coaching and mentoring around core methodologies, patterns, standards and processes. Contribute to the development there of.

• Takes initiatives to design and develop deliverables based on interpretation of findings and business client needs on a wide range of highly complex analytical topics

• Provides consultation to business clients (including senior leaders) and participates in enterprise-wide teams to address business issues

• Contributes to the growth & development of the NMDSI, to foster internal and external partnership

• Identifies & captures business requirements, develops KPI frameworks

• Perform business use case opportunity identification & sizing

• Regularly applies new perspectives, creative problem solving, and inter-departmental connections to improve enterprise analytical capabilities

• Actively promote learning & curiosity.

• Access, gather, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into complex business problems, decisions, and performance. Creates and produces forecasts, reports, dashboards, etc. to tell a story through data

• Leads the creation of forecasts, recommendations and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge. Utilizes analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts that impact the business (costs, risks, etc).

• Leads value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and innovation in work.

Qualifications:

• Master's degree in computer science, MIS, math, statistics, business or related field.

• At least 6 years of professional experience

• At least 5 years of experience building analytics models, visualizations and delivering insights

• Ability to provides design direction

• Ability to apply data visualization best practices to work deliverables.

• 7+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, report or application development that support business decisions/outcomes.

• Expertise in development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS or other tool

• Visualization tooling like PowerBI or Tableau

Skills You Have (NM Behaviors)

• Adaptive Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.

• Data Analytics: Creates business knowledge through data analysis and/or uses, maintains, captures, and stores data analysis; applies different types of analysis (e.g., financial, economic, competitive, supplier, industry) and analytical techniques.

• Business Influence: Collaborates, communicates and influences direct reports, stakeholders, and other business functions based on understanding of the marketplace, organizational needs, and the client as a people manager.

• Consulting: Connects with stakeholders to understand and gain specific information to help resolve customer problems in a given domain. Communicates effectively intent to customers, solicits customer requirements, utilizes domain knowledge and collaborates with the right stakeholders.

• Adaptative Communication: Formulates strategies to be used to convey complex information about services, products, systems, or processes to targeted audiences; communicates and liaises between technical and non-technical audiences.

Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
Structure 110:
Structure 115:
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Skills
Analytical Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Industry Knowledge (NM) - Intermediate, Data Interpretation (NM) - Advanced, Strategic Thinking (NM) - Advanced, Cross Functional Partnering & Planning (NM) - Advanced, Statistical Analysis (NM) - Advanced, Root Cause Analysis & Decision Quality (NM) - Advanced, Talent Development & Planning (NM) - Beginner, Negotiation & Managing Objection (NM) - Beginner, Business Acumen (NM) - Intermediate, Automation Mindset (NM) - Intermediate, Consulting (NM) - Intermediate, Engineering Expertise & Practices (NM) - Advanced, SQL (NM) - Advanced, Business Application (NM) - Advanced, Adaptive Communication (NM) - Advanced, Storytelling through Data (NM) - Advanced, Data Literacy (NM) - Advanced, Coaching & Mentoring (NM) - Beginner, Data ETL (NM) - Advanced, Tableau or Power BI (NM) - Advanced, Business Influence (NM) - Beginner, Python or R (NM) - Advanced, Data Solutions (NM) - Intermediate, Data Analytics (NM) - Advanced
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