Title: Manager Analytics - JCPenney

Role Summary/Purpose:

- Seeking intellectually curious candidate with a passion for executing and analyzing real world business problems.

- The candidate will be part of Diversified Value & Lifestyle Analytics team providing analytical solutions & reports across cardholders lifecycle for JC Penney and will be responsible for project management, displaying thought leadership & building & leveraging relationships across multiple functions within Analytics.

- Seeking intellectually curious candidate with a passion for executing and analyzing real world business problems.

- The candidate will be part of Diversified Value & Lifestyle Analytics team providing analytical solutions & reports across cardholders lifecycle for JC Penney and will be responsible for project management, displaying thought leadership & building &leveraging relationships across multiple functions within Analytics.

Essential Functions/Responsibilities:

- The successful candidate will be responsible for interpreting the different requests, formulating the approach & independently delivering error-free data & insights to the requestors on time

- He/she will be responsible for effective project management across all projects with proactive communication to stake holders.

- Proactively propose, initiate, independently execute and own strategic projects that create business impact.

- Represent the team in multiple forums with strategic projects and build brand for the team

- Mentor/coach junior team members on their regular deliverables

- Facilitate team meetings with US analytics team.

- Proactively leverage expertise in the larger team to deliver impact for Business.

- Encourage members to explore latest Tools and Techniques in the Industry and leverage them for portfolio growth.

- Follow audit processes, documentation and accuracy guidelines.

- Responsible and committed to the last mile execution of projects.

- Collaborate with onshore team to understand the business relevancy of the projects.

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Masters Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Engineering or any other quantitative streams with overall 5+ Years of Analytics experience

- Minimum 2+ years in Marketing

- Minimum 5+ years of hands on SAS/SQL programming experience.

- Strong written/oral communication skills Proven ability to independently deliver Analytical solutions for Business problems.

- Ability to deliver multiple projects simultaneously Internal candidates should have spent

- Minimum 18 months with Synchrony and 12 months in the current role. Should not be in final formal corrective or PIP.

- They should have at least 2+ years of experience in Marketing with solid understanding of available databases like CDCI, PDR etc.

Desired Qualifications:

- 1-2 years of experience of supervising / mentoring analysts in Analytics function

- 1+ years of experience in Sales Force Understanding of macro-economic conditions

- Good knowledge of latest Analytical practices in the Industry. Knowledge of latest Analytics Data Visualization tools like Tableau & SAS VA. Good to know knowledge ; R, Python.