Lead Data Analyst

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Milwaukee, WI
Hybrid
93K-172K Annually
Fintech • Insurance • Financial Services
Start-Up Vibes with The Stability of a Fortune 100 Company.
The Role
About the role:
Our aspiration is to be a data-driven, fact base led organization. Recently reimagined within the Strategy function, the Enterprise Insights Center of Excellence seeks to instill and sustain changes that lead to more objective, consistent, and strategically advantageous decision-making through the usage of NM's valuable data and information. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced individual to oversee multiple programs and projects of varying size, duration, and complexity that increase the trustworthiness and reliability of the data and information available and consumed throughout the enterprise.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
  • Lead the development, socialization, and continued ideation of the Data Foundation Playbook aiding the organization in leveraging sustainable data products and assets for analytics, thus increasing our data operations capabilities.
  • Maintain partnerships and alignment with the data modernization and data product strategy to evolve the playbook as more data products come online in our centralized data lake.
  • Key stakeholder in providing feedback for development of Northwestern Mutual's Semantic layer promoting enterprise-wide usage and adoption via use case research/requirements development.
  • Be an advocate for good data management practices that aid the functions in leveraging a data-driven approach to insights while continuing to cultivate a data first mindset.
  • Be a hands-on data operations coach to the functions to help drive data culture and behaviors in alignment with our strategic needs.
  • Develop and grow the team through training & mentoring.
  • 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 across multiple domains.
  • 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 strategic 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.
  • Ability to articulate 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Qualifications:
  • Bachelor'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 Databricks, Collibra, etc.
  • Visualization tooling like PowerBI or Tableau

LI-Hybrid
Compensation Range:
Pay Range - Start:
$92,750.00
Pay Range - End:
$172,250.00
Geographic Specific Pay Structure:
We believe in fairness and transparency. It's why we share the salary range for most of our roles. However, final salaries are based on a number of factors, including the skills and experience of the candidate; the current market; location of the candidate; and other factors uncovered in the hiring process. The standard pay structure is listed but if you're living in California, New York City or other eligible location, geographic specific pay structures, compensation and benefits could be applicable, click here to learn more.
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Northwestern Mutual is an equal opportunity employer who welcomes and encourages diversity in the workforce. We are committed to creating and maintaining an environment in which each employee can contribute creative ideas, seek challenges, assume leadership and continue to focus on meeting and exceeding business and personal objectives.
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We're excited about the potential people bring to Northwestern Mutual. You can grow your career here while enjoying first-class perks, benefits, and our commitment to a culture of belonging.
  • Flexible work schedules
  • Concierge service
  • Comprehensive benefits
  • Employee resource groups

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