Senior Executive, Data Management

Nanyang Business School is committed to fostering strong connections with the alumni community and industry partners. The engagement with these stakeholders through various activities and initiatives is a win-win situation as it ensures that a wide network of industry connections is readily available to both the school as well as the stakeholders themselves. This in turns supports NBS’s goal of maintaining the industry relevancy of the programmes, providing valuable connections and resources to the students. To this end, NBS is looking to build a connected database 360 across the various offices in NBS. This will allow a more holistic view of the various stakeholders in the system and harness the data’s potential more readily for different purposes.

This role will be crucial in the reviewing of the data management and data structure in NBS across the different offices, primarily Alumni Relations Office, Academy of Career Excellence, External Relations and Undergraduate Office. This includes maintenance of accurate alumni and corporate partners records, setting up database and dashboards for efficient reporting, and the harmonizing of data entry practices.

This role will also be reviewing existing processes that are data-intensive and mainly undertaken manually, for opportunities of process automation. This is expected to reduce heavy reliance on manual interventions and free up manpower for more strategic thinking matters.

With exciting deliverables, this position offers an excellent opportunity to gain experience in database creation and management, dashboard creation and data reporting to support management decision-making.

Responsibilities:

Dashboard Creation and Data Reporting

• Leverage on AI tools and coding methods to set up comprehensive dashboards, integrating different sets of information from different sources across NBS

• Work with various stakeholders to identify useful data to be represented in the dashboards to provide deeper insights into alumni and corporate partnership engagements, and support better decision-making and reporting

• Design a system linking database to dashboard to facilitate more efficient event data reporting

Centralised Database Creation

• Work with stakeholders across various NBS offices to consolidate the individual databases into one centralised database

• Manage the implementation of good data entry practices that suit the various offices needs

• Design database in an optimal manner to capture essential information for decision-making/initiative planning

Process Automation

• Work with management and offices to identify possible processes that can be automated

• Leverage coding or other appropriate tools to implement Robotic Process Automation to alleviate manual interventions required

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in business or any related field.

• At least 2 years of working experience, with relevant experience in database management and/or IT project management experience preferred

• Ability to work with people of various levels and cultures, with excellent interpersonal skills.

• Able to multi-task and follow up closely on deliverables.

• Strong Microsoft Excel skillsets in various Formulas (eg. VLookup, Proper, etc), Aggregation Worksheet Functions (SUM, AVG, Count, etc), Data sorting & filtering; Familiarity with the different Paste Special, Pivot Tables, etc.

• Possess excellent attention to detail and organisational skills

• Positive attitude, proactive approach, and willingness to learn.

• Versatile, Independent self-starter who takes ownership and accountability.

We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.