Sr Manager - Business Analytics

Licious; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 3,500,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Licious, a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company, is seeking a senior analytics leader to shape the data strategy and drive decisions across growth, operations and customer experience.

You will build and lead an AI-first analytics function, own the data ecosystem with the Data Platform and Engineering teams, and deliver self-serve dashboards and metrics that unlock faster, better actions. You will mentor a team of analysts and ensure rigorous data quality.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Business Analytics or similar roles.
• Proven experience managing and developing an analytics team.
• Strong problem-solving ability, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and break complex problems into simple, actionable pieces.
• High ownership and a strong bias for action—you don't stop at the insight; you drive the outcome.
• AI-first mindset, with demonstrated hands-on experience using AI/ML and AI tools to solve business problems or transform analytical workflows.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with an understanding of growth, customer behaviour, unit economics and operational levers.
• Strong SQL/data analytics skills and an understanding of data pipelines and data platforms.
• Experience working closely with Data Engineering/Data Platform teams and owning analytical data products/pipelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly with senior leaders.
• Strong people management and coaching skills.
• High standards for data quality, metric integrity and attention to detail.
• Experience in a D2C, e-commerce, quick commerce, consumer internet or high-growth business is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted, neutral analytics partner to senior leaders, translating complex data into clear insights and actions that drive business outcomes.
• Bring an independent, fact-based perspective to important business decisions and challenge assumptions when the data says otherwise.
• Identify the biggest opportunities and problems across growth, customer, marketing, supply chain and operations.
• Establish and maintain clear, standardized and unbiased business metrics across functions, building a strong culture of “one version of the truth.”
• Work closely with functional leaders to identify growth levers, improve unit economics and unlock operational efficiencies.
• Build self-serve analytical frameworks that enable teams to make faster, better decisions independently.
• Take on hard, ambiguous problems that don't have obvious answers and conduct deep-dive diagnostics to identify the real drivers behind business performance.
• Turn analysis into clear recommendations, drive alignment and stay close to execution until the impact is delivered.
• Build an AI-first analytics function, using AI to improve the speed, depth and quality of analysis, automation, insight generation and problem solving.
• Own the analytical data ecosystem in partnership with Data Platform/Data Engineering teams, ensuring reliable, scalable and high-quality data pipelines.
• Build robust analytical frameworks, experimentation and measurement systems, and dashboards that enable the business to move faster.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of BAs/SBAs, raising the bar on problem solving, analytical rigor, business understanding and ownership.
• Build a team that proactively identifies problems and opportunities rather than waiting for business teams to ask for reports.

Skills

Leadership

AI/ML mindset

SQL/data analytics

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Data storytelling

Business acumen

Data pipelines

Education

Bachelor's/Master's in Analytics/CS/Statistics

Tools

SQL

Python

BI tools (Tableau/Power BI)

Job description

We are Licious, a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by foodies and friends, Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta. We’re proud to be India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand, operating in 20 cities and delighting over 1.2 million customers per month with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood!

Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on…

What makes the role meaty?

• Act as a trusted, neutral analytics partner to senior leaders, translating complex data into clear insights and actions that drive business outcomes.
• Bring an independent, fact-based perspective to important business decisions and challenge assumptions when the data says otherwise.
• Identify the biggest opportunities and problems across growth, customer, marketing, supply chain and operations.
• Establish and maintain clear, standardized and unbiased business metrics across functions, building a strong culture of “one version of the truth.”
• Work closely with functional leaders to identify growth levers, improve unit economics and unlock operational efficiencies.
• Build self-serve analytical frameworks that enable teams to make faster, better decisions independently.
• Take on hard, ambiguous problems that don't have obvious answers and conduct deep-dive diagnostics to identify the real drivers behind business performance.
• Turn analysis into clear recommendations, drive alignment and stay close to execution until the impact is delivered.
• Build an AI-first analytics function, using AI to improve the speed, depth and quality of analysis, automation, insight generation and problem solving.
• Own the analytical data ecosystem in partnership with Data Platform/Data Engineering teams, ensuring reliable, scalable and high-quality data pipelines.
• Build robust analytical frameworks, experimentation and measurement systems, and dashboards that enable the business to move faster.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of BAs/SBAs, raising the bar on problem solving, analytical rigor, business understanding and ownership.
• Build a team that proactively identifies problems and opportunities rather than waiting for business teams to ask for reports.

We hope that you have…

• 5+ years of experience in Business Analytics or similar roles.
• Proven experience managing and developing an analytics team.
• Strong problem-solving ability, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and break complex problems into simple, actionable pieces.
• High ownership and a strong bias for action—you don't stop at the insight; you drive the outcome.
• An AI-first mindset, with demonstrated hands-on experience using AI/ML and AI tools to solve business problems or transform analytical workflows.
• Strong commercial and business acumen, with an understanding of growth, customer behaviour, unit economics and operational levers.
• Strong SQL/data analytics skills and an understanding of data pipelines and data platforms.
• Experience working closely with Data Engineering/Data Platform teams and owning analytical data products/pipelines.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly with senior leaders.
• Strong people management and coaching skills.
• High standards for data quality, metric integrity and attention to detail.
• The ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple, sharp and decision-oriented manner.
• Experience in a D2C, e-commerce, quick commerce, consumer internet or high-growth business is strongly preferred.
• A track record of using data to understand not just what happened, but why it happened, what we should do about it, and staying accountable for making it happen.