Deputy Manager – Data & Strategy (Analytics & Development)

Freudenberg Group; Chennai District; On-site; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Freudenberg Group in India seeks a senior analytics leader to drive delivery across Analytics, Azure, IoT, and .NET. You will coach teams, own analytics solutions, and ensure governance and scalability.

You will partner with global stakeholders, define KPIs, model data, and optimize dashboards and reports while developing capability and strengthening enterprise analytics standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Engineering with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience in leading multidisciplinary technical teams.
• Strong knowledge of Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud and SAP BW/SAP S/4HANA analytics.
• Ability to design analytics architecture and ensure governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and support teams across Analytics, Citizen Development, Azure, IoT, and .NET by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, strong collaboration, and continuous capability development.
• Own and guide the technical implementation of Analytics solutions, including requirement analysis, KPI definition, data modelling, data extraction, transformation and loading, semantic layer design, dashboard/report development, performance optimization, testing, deployment readiness, and post-go-live support.
• Coordinate delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple technology areas while ensuring predictable execution and measurable business outcomes.
• Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, global IT teams, project managers, product owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into feasible, scalable, and value-driven digital solutions.
• Provide structured feedback, mentoring, onboarding support, skill development plans, and career guidance to strengthen both technical and behavioural capabilities within the team.
• Establish and enforce delivery governance across Analytics and digital solution teams, including quality reviews, documentation standards, solution validation, release readiness, risk tracking, and operational handover.
• Ensure that Analytics implementations are business-focused, technically sound, scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, and platform standards.

Skills

Analytics leadership

Team building

Cross-functional collaboration

Power BI

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor of Engineering

Tools

Power BI

SAP Analytics Cloud

SAP BW/4HANA

SAP BW

SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics

Job description

Working at Freudenberg: We will wow your world!

Responsibilities:

Leadership Responsibilities

Lead, coach, and support teams across Analytics, Citizen Development, Azure, IoT, and .NET by ensuring clear goals, balanced workloads, strong collaboration, and continuous capability development.

1. Analytics technical leadership

Own and guide the technical implementation of Analytics solutions, including requirement analysis, KPI definition, data modelling, data extraction, transformation and loading, semantic layer design, dashboard/report development, performance optimization, testing, deployment readiness, and post-go-live support.

1. Delivery steering across digital solution teams

Coordinate delivery priorities, dependencies, risks, timelines, and stakeholder expectations across multiple technology areas while ensuring predictable execution and measurable business outcomes.

1. Stakeholder and business alignment

Act as a bridge between business stakeholders, global IT teams, project managers, product owners, and technical teams to translate business needs into feasible, scalable, and value-driven digital solutions.

1. Performance development and capability building

Provide structured feedback, mentoring, onboarding support, skill development plans, and career guidance to strengthen both technical and behavioural capabilities within the team.

Delivery and governance

Establish and enforce delivery governance across Analytics and digital solution teams, including quality reviews, documentation standards, solution validation, release readiness, risk tracking, and operational handover.

Ensure that Analytics implementations are business-focused, technically sound, scalable, secure, maintainable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, data governance, and platform standards.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor of Engineering (any discipline) with 12+ years of relevant experience.
• Proven experience in leading people and managing multidisciplinary technical teams across Analytics, Citizen Development, Azure, IoT, .NET, or related digital technology areas.
• Technical expertise should include strong working knowledge of tools and platforms such as Power BI, SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP BW/4HANA or SAP BW, SAP S/4HANA Embedded Analytics.
• The candidate should be capable of designing and reviewing analytics architecture covering data source identification, data pipelines, data cleansing, calculation logic, security/authorization concepts, data refresh strategy, report performance, user adoption, and operational support model.
• Preferred exposure includes dashboard UX design, self-service analytics enablement, citizen development governance, Power Platform integration, IoT data visualization, cloud analytics patterns, and basic understanding of .NET or Azure-based application data flows.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to manage priorities, resolve conflicts, influence global stakeholders, guide technical discussions, and build a high-performing team culture.

The Freudenberg Group is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion. Employment opportunities are available to all applicants and associates without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, mental or physical disability, genetic information, marital status, familial status, sexual orientation, protected military or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

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