Senior Data Analytics & Insights Leader (Remote)

VSP; California; Hybrid; USD 84,000 - 142,000; Full time

Job summary

VSP Vision in California seeks a Principal Business Data Analyst to drive data-driven decisions by collaborating with business teams, building dashboards and forecasting models. You will mentor analysts, develop data models, and communicate insights through visuals and presentations to optimize performance and strategic outcomes across the organization.

Experience with SQL, PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau or SAS and knowledge of Python or R is preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related functional area; or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data, generating insights and communicating those effectively with colleagues and leaders.
• Experience leading analytics projects across domains such as Financial Management and Forecasting, Risk Assessment, Insurance Utilization and Pricing, Supply Chain, Retail, eCommerce, or Healthcare.
• Proficient in building complex data queries using SQL to join, filter, cleanse and aggregate data.
• Proficient in designing data workflows and business-oriented data models against relational database structures.
• Proficient in visualization and dashboard design techniques to monitor KPIs and highlight trends.
• Proficient in PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS or similar.
• Experience applying statistical modeling for forecasting and what-if scenarios.
• Mentoring others and collaborating with business stakeholders for successful outcomes.
• Familiarity with Data Science notebooks (e.g., Jupyter) using Python and R.
• Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead collaborations with business teams to determine needs and opportunities for leveraging data in decision making.
• Mentor analysts to apply analytics techniques and generate insights through data exploration, modeling, analysis and mining.
• Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios and recommendations to support planning and decisions.
• Lead the creation of dashboards, visualizations and reports to monitor business performance and automate where possible.
• Communicate findings with visuals and presentations to optimize business decisions and outcomes.
• Collaborate with enterprise analytics for data models and data access views.
• Produce data workflows and data models using enterprise tools, including external datasets.
• Identify opportunities for machine learning and collaborate with Data Scientists.
• Ensure data security, privacy, governance and quality according to enterprise policies.

Skills

SQL querying

PowerBI

Cognos Analytics

Tableau

SAS

Python

R

data modeling

data visualization

mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related field

Tools

PowerBI

Cognos Analytics

Tableau

SAS

Jupyter (Python/R notebooks)

Job description

VSP Vision in California seeks a Principal Business Data Analyst to drive data-driven decisions by collaborating with business teams, building dashboards and forecasting models. You will mentor analysts, develop data models, and communicate insights through visuals and presentations to optimize performance and strategic outcomes across the organization.

Experience with SQL, PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau or SAS and knowledge of Python or R is preferred.