Senior Manager - Commercial Analytics
WESCO International
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Lead three teams of analysts and functional data specialists to produce measurements and models to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of commercial teams.
- Manage the full life cycle of analytics projects: develop and solicit requirements, prioritize projects, interpret results, and communicate findings to varying levels of management.
- Build processes to effectively monitor and manage workload across multiple teams, processes and functions in order to manage capacity and priorities effectively
- Ensure processes are documented and contingency plans are in place to ensure continuity and ability to meet internal and external customer expectations without fail
- Serve as Subject Matter Expert (SME) on analytic models' implementation into business applications.
- Lead other SMEs in cross functional projects to support existing or new business processes or applications.
- Drive development of data availability for the commercial teams and functions.
- Take responsibility for Master Data Management (MDM) quality for relevant data domains.
- Build strong relationships with key stake holders to foster an environment in which the team is viewed as a business partner in the achievement of financial and non-financial objectives.
- Conceive, design and execute basic and complex models (descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive) to provide insights and recommendations that drive business behavior.
- Analyze customer and company data to identify trends and potential opportunities, and measure achievement toward goals, for WESCO's customers, suppliers, operating businesses, and internal functions.
- Bachelor's Degree - Finance/Statistics/Information Systems/Marketing/Mathematics required.
- Master's Degree - Business Administration/Information Systems/Analytics preferred.
- Power BI, Power Apps and Power Automate.
- 7 years required of analyzing data to identify insights
- 5 years required of working with relational database (ex: AWS, Teradata, MS SQL Server, Azure, MS Access, etc.)
- Critical thinking - demonstrated ability to turn data into information into insight and solve complex problems that require independent judgment with no prescribed procedures required
- Excellent attention to detail, organization, supervisory and project management skills required
- Demonstrated success in developing/establishing advanced data models into business applications (ex: supervised & unsupervised learning models, simulation, optimization)
- Demonstrated success in establishing and maintaining effective business relationships, communicating to senior levels of organizations required
- Demonstrated ability to communicate complex information in a straightforward manner using precise language, especially to non-technical audiences required
- Demonstrated success in managing multiple deadlines under tight timelines with multiple priorities required
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Products - highly proficient in Excel required
- Proficient with statistical/probabilistic calculations and concepts required.
- Proficient in SQL or other data-oriented programming languages required.