VP/Head - Analytics - eCommerce

VP- Analytics

Position: Head – Analytics/VP Analytics

Company: eCommerce

Location: Bangalore

- Our client’s vision is to make analytics part of its overarching competitive strategy, and push it down to decision makers at every level.

- The incumbent will work closely with the founders to drive the changes in culture, processes and talent required to transform the company into an analytics-focused organization.

- They plan to create a Single Analytics Initiative and place all data-collection and analysis activities under a common leadership with common technology and tools.

Responsiblities –

- Work closely with stakeholders to understand the competitive, strategic and operational considerations for the role.

- Formulate the BI vision for the organization by working closely with the leadership team.

- Build a best in class team required to achieve the BI vision.

- Work closely with the Engineering team on defining the technology vision for analytics and also on the regular scoping of product/tool requirements.

- Centrally own the tools and the data for all divisions of the company .

- Meet the analytics needs of leadership and the different business units .

- Identify value-creation opportunities for all the business units and for the company.

- Democratize data to drive data-driven decision making in the organization.

- Build, set up and manage a Competitor intelligence platform.

- Ensure Data quality and reliability through regular QA , and setting up ETL and Data Security practices

Desired Profile

- Bachelor's degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics or other quantitative discipline.

- Demonstrated excellent analytical, communication, stake holder management and project-management skills for 10+ years, 5+ in a leadership role within the analytics arena

- Prior experience in managing large teams for at least 5+ years.

- Prior experience in setting up an Analytics function in a retail/ ecommerce organization from scratch will be an added advantage.

- Experience with all aspects of BI and Information Management processes, technologies and architectures such as BI delivery mechanisms: Data Mining, handling complex data, Standardization and Optimization techniques.

- Experience in working with BI hardware, software and services vendors/ Engineering teams building tools that enable analytics.

- Excellent working knowledge and understanding of all key aspects of a typical business - product, marketing, operations and finance etc.

Please mail me on smriti@wengerwatson.com for more details.