Manager, Analytics

VSP Vision Care; United States; Hybrid; USD 74,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

VSP Vision is seeking an analytics leader to manage a team delivering insights within a business unit, using data as a strategic enabler to guide decisions. You will direct daily operations, collaborate with leadership to monitor KPIs, and analyze trends to uncover opportunities and risks that optimize outcomes.

You will align analytics practices with Enterprise standards, guide data visualization, and promote self-service analytics while delivering actionable recommendations across the

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 3 years of management experience with hiring, training, assigning work and managing performance of direct reports.
• Excellent leadership and visionary abilities.
• Descriptive statistics techniques used to solve business problems.
• Creativity and data-driven analytical approach to business questions.
• Understanding of predictive modeling and machine learning applications.
• Exercises discretion and independent judgment in duties.
• For remote/hybrid roles, engage effectively in virtual environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide management of a team that delivers analytics to enable strategic and operational decisions.
• Provide direction to the team on a daily basis.
• Collaborate with leadership to monitor and communicate KPIs and understand performance drivers.
• Analyze trends to identify opportunities and risks to optimize outcomes.
• Align team processes with Enterprise Analytics standards and strategy.
• Guide use of analytical concepts: hypotheses, test design, data analysis, findings, and recommendations.
• Deliver accurate, actionable information to end users.
• Identify opportunities to generate new data to improve insights.
• Ensure data integrity and quality through querying experience.
• Create effective visualizations to tell data-driven stories.
• Champion data governance to improve data quality and understanding.
• Drive analytics adoption and transformational change within leadership and users.
• Apply data modeling to enable self-service analytics and balance model scope with response times.
• Plan daily/quarterly goals and department-level projects.
• Develop best practices for business procedures.
• Maintain clear communication with stakeholders and senior management.

Skills

Leadership

Management experience

Descriptive statistics

Creative problem solving

Predictive modeling

Machine learning

Independent judgment

Virtual engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience

Job description

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

Job Specifications

• 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
• Regularly exercises discretion and independent judgment in the performance of his/her job duties
• For roles that are remote (i.e., Work From Home (WFH)) or hybrid (i.e., partial onsite at a VSP location and WFH), must demonstrate a high level of engagement in virtual environments, including maintaining camera presence during meetings to support effective communication and team alignment.

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Compensation range for the role is listed below. Applicable salary ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. As a part of the compensation package, this role may include eligible bonuses and commissions. For more information regarding VSP Vision benefits, please click here.

Salary Ranges: $73,500.00 - $131,250.00

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status. We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing.

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