Head of Data

**JOB TITLE: Head of Data & Analytics**
**JOB LOCATION: Singapore**
**RELOCATION TERMS: Local terms**
**MAIN JOB PURPOSE**

For GRO24/7 to remain competitive in the future, the business needs to be on a path of continuous improvement and to become data intelligent. The Data and Analytics vertical is responsible for building data, data science and analytics as a core capability to help the marketplace become data intelligent and create a data driven culture with continued focus on business outcomes and organization performance. The team will deliver advanced analytics products at scale and work closely with the market teams and customers to ensure that decisions are augmented with insight & recommendations wherever possible.

It will also require setting up scalable teams to deliver capabilities faster & at lesser costs. With the ever-changing technologies & evolving business requirements, the role also warrants an external orientation to bring in an outside-in perspective & help deliver the best-in-class solutions.
**KEY RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Defining organizational data analytics vision and roadmap, and works closely with team and other stakeholders to achieve it
- Conducting data analysis projects as needed to support strategic decision-making
- Formulating and implementing policies and procedures for efficient and comprehensive data collection and analytical techniques
- Understanding business strategy and proposes new, innovative areas for analysis to support the business
Summarizing key findings and effectively presenting to GRO24/7 leadership
- Collaborating with tech & product teams and partners to ensure smooth and secure integration of data analytics solutions into existing infrastructure
- Leveraging data analytics for effective, high-level risk monitoring and mitigation
- **KEY REQUIREMENTS**:
**Qualifications**
- MBA or Master’s Degree or Equivalent in Statistics, Mathematics, or a related field; equivalent work experience is desirable
- Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or a related field.
**Experience**
- Required - 10+ years in a statistical analysis role & 7+ years of management experience
- Preferred - 5+ years of management experience in a statistical role
- Ability to manage multiple requests and priorities simultaneously in a highly VUCA and competitive market.
- Passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data
Proven ability to understand business context and ability to integrate cognitive and advanced analytics levers for solutions
- Ability to communicate complex quantitative insights to business in a precise, and actionable manner
- Serve as the trusted data and analytics consultant for business leaders, one who provides products-solutions that rapidly solve for business issues
Experience in end-to-end large-scale project implementation.
- Ability to build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the business
- Ability to build & run a purposeful Data and Analytics team of insourced & outsourced individuals to attain best in house data competency.
- Knowledge of Retail & CPG industry trends and demonstrated commitment to stay up to date on new technologies.
**Technical skills & capabilities**
- Expertise in data analysis tools, platforms and techniques -
- Working knowledge of advanced analytics and data science tools
- Familiarity with dimensional data modelling concepts and modern data architectures
- Proficiency in at least one a scripting or statistical programming language (i.e. R or Python), the command line, and git.
- Understanding of machine learning algorithms such as linear and logistic regression, decision trees, and k-means clustering or other data mining techniques.
- Comfort to perform statistical validations such as A/B testing and customer engagement analysis such as marketing campaigns, customer segmentation and
- recommendation systems.
- Experience with leading AI and ML platforms
- Working Knowledge on cloud stacks (GCP, Azure, AWS) and their analytics products
- Working knowledge of visualisation tools like Power Bi, Looker, Tableau, etc.
- Google analytics capabilities like GA 360, GMB, Google data services
- Ability to rapidly match analytics and data products to business needs
- Attention to detail, Self-starter, problem-solving attitude, being accountable.
- Excellent inter-personal and communicative skills, willing to support the teams at a high level of excellence.
- Experience of working with Global business, BEM, Business partners, Geo IT and extensive vendor teams.
- Excellent stakeholder & vendor management skills
- Strong project and people management skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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