Manager, Analytics

About the role

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

Typically has the following skills or abilities

• 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

Salary Ranges

$73,500.00 - $131,250.00

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