Senior Analytics Project Manager

Duration: 08/01/2018 to 30/06/2018
Location: Walloon-Brabant
Industry: Pharma

Killing Criteria:

- 7 to 10 years total experience MINIMUM
- Experience in managing offshore technical resources (US and India)
- Knowledge of Cognos, SQL, Oracle data warehousing
- Experience in AGILE is a major plus, used to working in a complex, changing environment
- Fluent in English

Responsibilities:

* Focal point and trusted Analytics & Reporting advisor for business stakeholders and key users
* Communicate with business stakeholders and key users to develop and maintain the product roadmap
* Gather business requirements in line with the product roadmap and prioritise them, based on viability and feasibility, in line with the overall strategy
* Research and analyse functional needs in depth, and communicate them clearly to the design and delivery teams, with meticulous attention to detail
* Optimize solutions and applications to deliver against the business requirements while maximizing return on investment
* Plan, manage and assume responsibility for regional deliverables in a fast moving and dynamic environment
* Effectively manage internal and external communications in both verbal and written form by targeting messaging to audience and ensuring commitment to strategy and objectives
* Passionately promote the vision and strategy, communicating constantly with business stakeholders regarding the solutions
* Collaborate with other PM as well as the design and delivery teams to fine tune our delivery approach, internal processes and best practices
* Apply advanced analytics and quality/process improvement methodologies to assure uniformity, standardization, repeatability and scalability of solutions
* Coordinate and participate in product testing to guarantee high quality solutions offering the best user experience and meeting business needs, ensuring compliance to validation and testing requirements and including appropriate documentation
* Participate in product release planning in line with business priorities
* Ensure adequate user documentation is created and maintained to support all solutions

Education/Experience:

* MIN 5+ years of experience in BI analytics management and working with teams in a virtual/global or similarly structured organization
* Must be able to define, shape, and drive analytics initiatives to completion while effectively collaborating with others
* Experience managing third-party external business partners and their technical teams in the supportmust be able to solve complex business problems and present recommendations to senior management effectively
* Strong customer focus and ability to handle difficult stakeholder and project conversations; interact with multiple levels of the organization and functional disciplines
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, work ethic and the ability to work well individually as well as coordinating and collaborating with multiple global virtual project teams
* Understanding and experience with big data technologies and platforms

Technology/BI Skills:

* Demonstrated understanding of BI technology and experience in delivering BI or IT projects
* Prior experience in design, development and deployment of BI applications, including the role of these applications in an enterprise BI architecture
* Basic Datamodelling and database design understanding including experience in SQL server and Datastage development
* Experience with BI visualization tools and their implementation, specifically Cognos
* Understanding of design principles and aesthetics of business dashboards and reports
* Proficient in Data Mining and Analysis of Data/interpretation Results
* Advanced knowledge of MS Office suite and MS Project is required
* Experience with corporate Sales, Finance or ERP systems