.The Analytics Specialist will contribute to Welocalize's industry-leading data analytics team, playing a dynamic role that will span some of the organization's most important, highest-profile analytics initiatives.
The "Specialist" is an experienced data analyst who has proven analytical/technical acumen, and can serve as a trusted partner to business teams.
This role will be responsible for proactively engaging with stakeholder teams to understand their people, processes, data and objectives/key results (OKRs); being responsible for data products that support their OKRs; and empowering the teams to improve business outcomes with data.Main Duties:Lead discovery processes with stakeholders to thoroughly identify (and document) business requirements and expected outcomes around data/analytics.
Translate business requirements to technical requirements for data engineers.Use analysis techniques to produce reports/data products/analyses.Proactively/creatively generate original insights to improve business outcomes.Deliver outstanding analytic services focused on solving the right problem in the right way, while delighting partners with swift, decisive, and clearly communicated action.Design data products and analytical solutions for ease of use and comprehension; facilitate the deployment, support the utilization, and continuously evolve these data products to ensure business value is added.Develop models to quantify the financial impact of business initiatives and the effects of team recommendations.Using a listen-first philosophy, quickly form "trusted advisor" relationships with colleagues, including senior leaders.Periodically serve as a data analytics lead/partner for a Welocalize squads/teams at a time, periodically "rotating" to serve different teams.Help teams define the information required to monitor and report performance for assigned objectives and key results (OKRs) and for operational & financial KPIs (key performance indicators).Produce information views necessary to enable the teams to publish and explain OKR financial and operational performance in an accurate and consistent fashion.Train and mentor team members on which information views to use, how to interpret information and what actions may be necessary to improve performance.Maintain, update and own a backlog/road map of multiple workstreams/projects; and report regularly onprogress and blockers.Provide mentoring and "level 2 support" to other analysts.Rely on past experience to provide added value and expertise to employees and team members.Maintain a self-starter mindset to proactively anticipate and address partners' needs.Qualifications:Education: bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience, preferably in Computer Science, Math, Statistics or IT/IS.
Preferred: post-graduate education (or equivalent experience) in an applicable field