Analytics Manager: Insight & Strategy Lead

VSP; California; Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

VSP Vision is seeking a analytics leader to manage a team delivering insights that optimize strategic and operational decisions within a business unit. You will drive data-informed planning, collaboration with leadership, and governance to ensure high-quality analytics across initiatives.

The role emphasizes data storytelling, hypothesis-driven analysis, and balancing model scope with production speed, including alignment with Enterprise Analytics standards. Remote or hybrid work may be involved.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of management experience with responsibilities for hiring, training, assigning work and managing performance of direct reports.
• Excellent leadership and visionary abilities.
• Ensures the appropriate use of descriptive statistical techniques to solve business problems.
• Approaches business challenges with creativity and an understanding of data to design analytical approaches that answer core business questions.
• Preferably able to understand the use of predictive modeling and machine learning and to identify business problems where those can be applied.

Responsibilities

• Provide management of a team that delivers analytics within a business unit, leveraging data as a strategic enabler to generate insights that optimize strategic and operational decisions.
• Improves the business unit’s understanding and use of analytics and improves the efficiency for how analytics are performed.
• Provide direction to the team on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with leadership to monitor and communicate key performance indicators and to understand the reasons behind the performance.
• Actively analyze trends to find business opportunities and risks in order to optimize business outcomes.
• Collaborate with the Enterprise Analytics team to ensure the business analytics team’s processes and practices align with Enterprise standards and the Enterprise Analytics Strategy Guide the appropriate use of analytical concepts and statistical techniques: creation of hypotheses, test/experiment design, data analysis, summarization of findings, and delivery of actionable recommendations for business units
• Provide end users with accurate, actionable and insightful information
• Identify opportunities to generate and collect new data to improve insights
• Leverage experience in data querying to ensure integrity and quality of the team’s work
• Guide the creation of effective data visualizations to tell a story – expose patterns, trends, opportunities and risks
• Champion effective data governance within the business unit to improve data integrity, quality and understanding
• Drive transformational change and analytics aptitude among leaders and users within the business unit to empower a more informed and effective business
• Apply knowledge of data modeling techniques to enable self-service analytics and to balance the scope of the models against response times
• Engage in planning to meet daily, quarterly, operational goals; plan and execute department level projects
• Determine and develop best practices in relation to business procedures
• Assure effective communications are maintained within and beyond the team; where appropriate involve senior level management and employees in plans, and advise on progress towards meeting goals

Skills

Leadership

Data analysis

Statistical methods

Data storytelling

Communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience

Job description

VSP Vision is seeking a analytics leader to manage a team delivering insights that optimize strategic and operational decisions within a business unit. You will drive data-informed planning, collaboration with leadership, and governance to ensure high-quality analytics across initiatives.

The role emphasizes data storytelling, hypothesis-driven analysis, and balancing model scope with production speed, including alignment with Enterprise Analytics standards. Remote or hybrid work may be involved.