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Job Title: Asst. Manager – Analytics and Insights
Location: Bangalore
Job Details
Do you want to play a key role in the Digital Transformation of Unilever R&D? Then join our exciting digital journey as an analyst within our R&D Analytics and Insights team.
Digital is disrupting the world, it is changing everything about how consumer goods companies, design, source, manufacture and go to market. Unilever intends to be at the front of the digital revolution within R&D and is driving an ambitious Disrupt through Digital agenda across the Divisions.
Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) is the way Unilever does R&D. It is a foundation for unleashing huge amounts of energy across Divisions, Functions and Geographies. The PLM data backbone is also the glue that binds the product development process together within R&D – connecting internal and external data together to support creative data mining and insight generation and enable a revolution in computer simulation and model building. Together, these drive the Unilever R&Ds 100% In Silico First strategy and the creation of an R&D Data Highway.
Both creativity and discipline are required to help further unlock the power of PLM and drive step-change productivity improvements and growth through exploitation of the R&D Data Highway. In a data-driven R&D world it is critical that we can leverage the right data, at the right quality and at the right time in the business process for additional insight and additional business benefit. In addition, it is key that we drive a step-change in the way that we leverage that data asset – exploiting it as a value-adding asset for the enterprise as a whole.
This role is an exciting opportunity to work the end-to-end R&D Data Highway and is pivotal for the delivery of Unilever R&D’s transformational Disrupt through Digital strategy. In this role your goal will be to
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sSpport the Data Quality Manager to deliver critical KPI’s and detailed analysis to ensure regular measurement of key data areas within the R&D Data Highway
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Establish professional information provision, including ad-hoc requests and regular reporting activity to agreed SLA’s.
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Provide user education and support to the wider R&D Analytics community for the R&D reporting solutions
Are you someone with an attention to detail and a passion for transformation through data and insight? Can you learn fast, drive opportunities with clients and strive for continuous improvement? Do you want to be a data revolutionary within our business? Then join our exciting R&D Analytics & Insights Team within Digital R&D.
Job description:
The job comprises:
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Supporting the R&D Data Quality Manager by delivering reporting to drive data quality, standards and cleansing initiatives relevant for the core R&D business process management processes
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Exploration – refining of Customer requirements and development of working prototypes to support R&D Projects.
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Participation in any regular reporting activity including month-end report and Scorecard generation.
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Demand management, deadlines & internal SLA control
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Report execution & query creation for ad-hoc analysis requests from R&D Divisions and R&D Global functions.
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Responsibility for maintenance of global reporting capabilities including Oneview and other Management Information assets essential for R&D reporting
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Pro-active in driving improvement and simplification ideas to global R&D capabilities
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Active participation on global communities of practice (e.g. Microsoft Power BI)
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User training, promotion of global R&D Business Analytics capability to Super Users.
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Reconciliation checks and validation between source system and reporting systems.
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Monitoring the system availability, performance, raising tickets and communicating the status to the Super user community
Skills/ Experience/ Qualifications:
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Experience of working in a Business Analytics / Data Analyst / Data Management Role.
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Experience of implementing and driving effective KPI’s particularly around Data Management / Data Quality and Business Process.
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Advanced skills in Microsoft Power BI, SQL, Excel and/or Visual Basic
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Database understanding
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Strong analytical skills
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Ability to deal with large amounts of data
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General understanding of the Data Management process and reconciliation
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Process mindset & understanding of information flows.
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Problem solver
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Strong accountability to deadlines and accuracy of analyses delivered.
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Ability to work under time pressure
Standards of Leadership:
- Purpose & Service (works from purpose for the good of others)
- Agility (constantly curious & courageous)
- Passion for High Performance (inspires the energy needed to win and grow)
Key Interfaces:
- R&D Analytics & Insights programme lead
- Data Quality Manager
- R&D Business Analytics Community
- DRD Leadership Team
- R&D Operational Excellence
- DRD Business Process Owners, DRD managers, external consultants, category SMEs, packaging SMEs, SC SMEs and MDM SMEs
- External Data providers
The ideal candidate is disciplined with an attention to detail and a curious mindset. Preferably has experience of working in a business intelligence role and has demonstrative skills in the relevant Analytics toolsets.
The job is an exciting opportunity to work the data from across the end-to-end R&D Data Highway and beyond. It is a critical enabling role for the successful delivery of Unilever’s R&D Transformational “Disrupt through Digital” strategy.