Principal Insights Analyst - Adoption And Enablement

Emirates; Dubai; On-site; AED 480,000 - 720,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Travel benefits

Discounted flights and hotel stays

Leave and healthcare package

Life insurance

Job summary

Emirates Group's Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) in Dubai seeks a senior analytics leader to drive data-driven decisions across the business. You will oversee problem framing, methodology selection, and deliver insights through compelling visualisations and narratives for stakeholders.

In this management role you will mentor teams, shape metrics and KPIs, collaborate across functions, and promote self-service analytics while embedding enterprise data modelling and governance practices.

Qualifications

• Degree in Business or IT from an internationally recognised university.
• 8+ years of experience in Information Technology or related field.
• Experience with data warehousing, analytics tools and platforms.

Responsibilities

• Manage business engagement from problem statement to methodology selection and oversight of data collection and analysis.
• Deliver complex insights use cases with compelling visualisations and narratives for stakeholders.
• Define measures, metrics and KPIs and translate them into analytical data products for actionable insights.
• Lead, coach and develop team members with domain knowledge and analytical skills.
• Collaborate with federated analytics communities to improve self-service capabilities.

Skills

Data analytics

BI capabilities

Statistical methods

Communication skills

Business domain knowledge

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or IT

Tools

SQL

Python

R

Data Visualization

Data Warehousing

Job description

Job Description:

Job Purpose

At Emirates Group our Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) is a centralised unit that provides data and analytics support to Emirates Group businesses. This allows our businesses to make better decisions by using data and analytics to understand our customers, operations, and markets. The ACoE is an essential part of Emirates Group's digital transformation strategy. The unit is helping Emirates Group to become a more data-driven organization and to make better decisions by using data and analytics.

In This Role, You Will

• Manage business engagement from initial problem statement and hypothesis; through identifying ideal methodology, providing oversight on the data collection process, statistical and analytic analysis work to ensure all available information is generated to support business needs.
• Deliver complex insights use cases in a manner which is accepted by business stakeholders through compelling visualisation and narratives incorporating analytical insight into actionable outcomes.
• Work collaboratively with business stakeholders to support in helping define relevant measures, metrics and KPIs, that can be translated into analytical data and information products for root cause analysis and actionable insights.
• Lead, coach and develop direct reports to ensure each team member is empowered with the right business domain knowledge, analytical and statistical skills to ensure robust and timely delivery of insight products.
• Work with federated analytics communities to improve analytical capabilities of teams in business units to improve self service capability.
• Create a culture of inclusion across business functions by actively endorsing and participating in community building activities that reinforce this ambition.
• Cultivate the enterprise ambition of embedding a federated Insights & Analytics (I&A) community to enable the scaled and sustained excellence in all I&A disciplines across functional lines of business.
• Leverage relevant frameworks that capture relevant data models and business logic and ensure a systematic approach to deliver projects of high value in a timely manner leveraging self-service capabilities where possible.
• Ensure the highest standards of quality and usability are incorporated into each use case, with business ownership embedded into the design and delivery process of each project.

Qualification

• Qualifications: Degree (12+3 or equivalent) in a Business or Information Technology field from an internationally recognised university.
• Experience: 8+ years experience in Information Technology or other related field.

Knowledge & Skills

• Experience in working with and understanding Data & Analytics tools and platforms including Data Warehouses, data lakes and visualisation toolsets.
• Experience and knowledge in one or more of the following business domains such as: Customer, Commercial, Operations, Finance, Human Resources etc.
• Solid understanding of enterprise data warehouse logical data modelling approaches (e.g. 3NF, Data Vault, Star Schema, etc.); experience with associated physical data models is a plus.
• Working in diverse international teams, at least partially also in large-scale enterprise data & analytics domains within complex business environments.
• Strong analytics and business intelligence skills with proven ability to manage multiple initiatives simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to interact with stakeholders at all levels of the business, including external parties.
• Knowledge of data warehousing principles.
• Ability to handle multiple and complex situations simultaneously taking into considerations the diverse culture within the group.
• Knowledge of business domain, statistics, mathematics and analytical methods.
• Knowledge of data and KPIs commonly used in airline industry, particularly as they relate to the commercial application of this information.
• Proven hands‑on knowledge of SQL/Python/R
• Strong Relationship building Skills.

Salary & benefits

Join us in a management role and enjoy an attractive tax‑free salary. On top of our generous travel benefits, including discounted flights and hotel stays around the world, this managerial role also has an excellent leave and healthcare package. That’s on top of transport benefits, life insurance and more. Find out what it’s like to live and work in our fast‑paced, cosmopolitan home city in the Dubai Lifestyle section of our website www.emirates.com/careers