VP, Analytics & Insight Strategy

Mars United Commerce; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 269,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Family Care

Adoption assistance

Pet adoption support

Employee Wellness programs

Tuition assistance

Flexible working arrangements

Work Your World program

Job summary

Mars United Commerce is seeking a VP of Analytics to lead Business Analytics, Media Analytics, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science, partnering with Strategic Planning and cross-functional teams. The role requires guiding insights, ensuring data-driven decision support, and driving analytics excellence across client engagements.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, shape the analytics strategy, and collaborate with senior leaders to grow analytics capabilities while maintaining

Qualifications

• Master’s Degree in Computer Science and 10+ years related experience in a Retailer/Marketing setting.
• Experience with Databricks for large-scale data processing and analytics, including Spark-based workflows and MLflow for experiment tracking, model management, and deployment.
• Deep experience with retailer and market data sources including Circana and Nielsen, and retailer-based sales reporting platforms.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary team of Analysts, Data Scientists and Engineers to innovate measurement, reporting, scorecards, and dashboards.
• Elevate storytelling and insights to ensure client impact and decision support.
• Oversee timely, accurate data analyses and client presentations.
• Provide strategic guidance to enhance customer experience, product development, and personalized marketing.
• Lead closed-loop measurement and privacy-safe analytics initiatives across retailer and platform environments.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Communication

Analytics storytelling

Strategic thinking

Client governance

Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Databricks

Spark

MLflow

Circana data

Nielsen data

Scintilla

8541

CVS Extracare

SQL

Python

Job description

Mars United Commerce is seeking a VP of Analytics to lead Business Analytics, Media Analytics, Analytics Engineering, and Data Science, partnering with Strategic Planning and cross-functional teams. The role requires guiding insights, ensuring data-driven decision support, and driving analytics excellence across client engagements.

You will mentor a multidisciplinary team, shape the analytics strategy, and collaborate with senior leaders to grow analytics capabilities while maintaining