Principal Business Data Analyst

The Principal Business Data Analyst leads collaborations with business teams to determine needs and opportunities for leveraging data in support of business monitoring and decision management. This position mentors’ others to apply a range of analytics and statistical techniques to generate relevant and accurate insights through data exploration, modeling, analysis and mining. Communicates findings effectively using visualizations, dashboards and presentations with the goal of optimizing business decisions and outcomes.

Lead engagements with business leaders and staff to clarify needs and define business requirements for strategic data use; where possible anticipate and propose opportunities for analysis and exploration in support of business optimization and decision-making

Support decision-makers by performing data exploration, analysis, and statistical inference to identify and interpret trends and patterns in datasets and detect influences, opportunities, and risks

Develop forecasts, regression models, what-if scenarios, and recommendations in consultation with leaders to support strategic/tactical planning and operational decision-making

Lead the creation of dashboards, visualizations, and reports to support business performance monitoring, automating where possible, to support stakeholders’ ability to be data-driven

Effectively communicates insights for business leaders and colleagues in order to advance the collective intelligence of the organization

Work collaboratively with the enterprise analytics and information management team to articulate business needs for new/revised data models and views/access to the data

Produce business-specific workflows and data models for analysis using enterprise analytics and data management tools, including the integration of external data sets that are approved for use

Serve iterative business needs by developing prototype models that join large volumes of data across multiple data domains to deliver views for use by other analysts; understand the modeling techniques for ensuring integrity and responsiveness in those deliverables

Identify business opportunities for machine learning and collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver value for the business unit

Contribute to data inventory and stewardship efforts, including contributions to metadata management, data profiling, data quality remediation, and data cleansing

Maintain high standards and adhere to all enterprise policies and guidelines regarding data security and privacy, data management, data quality, and data governance; regard data as an enterprise asset that is to be protected and used both strategically and appropriately

Job Specifications

Typically has the following skills or abilities:

Bachelor’s degree in statistics, analytics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related functional area; or equivalent experience

6+ years of demonstrated data analytics experience including querying and analyzing operational and/or financial data, generating insights and communicating those effectively with colleagues and leaders

Prior experience in successfully leading analytics projects in one or more of the following domains/business functions: Financial Management and Forecasting, Risk Assessment, Insurance Utilization and Pricing, Supply Chain Optimization, Retail Management, eCommerce Management, Consumer Behavior Analysis, Marketing Optimization or Healthcare Management

Proficient in building complex data queries using SQL in order to join, filter, cleanse and aggregate data; understanding of how no/low-code applications apply SQL concepts to do the same

Proficient in designing data workflows and business-oriented data models against relational database structures

Proficient in visualization and dashboard design techniques to create interfaces that monitor business performance against KPIs and highlight trends/patterns

Proficient in using data exploration and analysis platforms such as PowerBI, Cognos Analytics, Tableau, SAS or similar

Experience applying statistical modeling to evaluate complex business problems and develop forecasting and what-if scenarios

Possesses strategic skills, business acumen and curiosity to envision opportunities, document requirements and collaborate for successful outcomes

Capable of mentoring others to elevate the collective skills of the team

Familiarity with Data Science techniques and experience in the use of notebooks (i.e. Jupyter) with programming languages like Python and R

Excellent written and verbal communication, presentation and analytical skills

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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 click here. 

Salary Ranges: $84,000.00 - $141,750.00

VSP Vision is an equal opportunity employer and gives consideration for employment to qualified applicants without regard to age, gender, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.  We maintain a drug-free workplace and perform pre-employment substance abuse testing. 

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