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Northwestern Mutual · 1 day ago

Lead Data Analyst - Hybrid

Milwaukee, WI

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$93K/yr - $198K/yr

7+ years exp

Northwestern Mutual is a company focused on client interests and fostering a diverse workforce. They are seeking a Lead Data Analyst to perform expert-level quantitative and qualitative data analysis, deliver insights and recommendations to business clients, and drive strategic business decisions through data-driven forecasts and reports.

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Responsibilities

Leads expert level quantitative and qualitative data analysis and reporting of patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers in order to drive business decisions and address business questions

Creates and is accountable for high quality, value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and innovation in work

Delivers results to Business Clients and Sr. Dept Leaders

Delivers results, insights and recommendations (written, verbal, presentations, etc) to business audience to support business decisions

Produce actionable reports that show key performance indicators, identify areas of improvement into current operations, display root cause analysis of problems, and recommend solutions

Deep expertise in a least one business area or domain, with a broad understanding of the business and domains surrounding the main focus. Ability to articulate this knowledge as an expert at the enterprise level and may be called on to provide insight at the senior leadership level to provide detailed analysis

Seeks to understand business process, user tasks, and as necessary, captures refined process documents

Shares best practices with peers through coaching and mentoring around core methodologies, patterns, standards and processes. Contribute to the development there of

Takes initiatives to design and develop deliverables based on interpretation of findings and business client needs on a wide range of highly complex analytical topics

Provides consultation to business clients (including senior leaders) and participates in enterprise-wide teams to address business issues

Contributes to the growth & development of the NMDSI, to foster internal and external partnership

Identifies & captures business requirements, develops KPI frameworks

Perform business use case opportunity identification & sizing

Regularly applies new perspectives, creative problem solving, and inter-departmental connections to improve enterprise analytical capabilities

Actively promote learning & curiosity

Access, gather, and analyze data from multiple internal and external sources to drive insights into complex business problems, decisions, and performance. Creates and produces forecasts, reports, dashboards, etc. to tell a story through data

Leads the creation of forecasts, recommendations and strategic/tactical plans based on business data and market knowledge. Utilizes analytics and metrics to improve processes and provide data-driven forecasts that impact the business (costs, risks, etc)

Leads value driven work that drives business outcomes; places the user in the center of decision making; and collaborates with team for speed, agility and innovation in work

Qualification

Data AnalysisData VisualizationSQLStatistical AnalysisSASMS ExcelPower BITableauPythonAnalytical ThinkingRoot Cause AnalysisBusiness AcumenStrategic ThinkingCoaching & Mentoring

Required

Master's degree in computer science, MIS, math, statistics, business or related field

At least 6 years of professional experience

At least 5 years of experience building analytics models, visualizations and delivering insights

Ability to provides design direction

Ability to apply data visualization best practices to work deliverables

7+ years of relevant experience with a proven track record in research and data analysis, application of statistical research techniques, report or application development that support business decisions/outcomes

Expertise in development and analytical tools such as SAS, SQL, MS Excel, SPSS or other tool

Visualization tooling like PowerBI or Tableau

Benefits

Flexible work schedules

Concierge service

Comprehensive benefits

Employee resource groups

Company

Northwestern Mutual

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Northwestern Mutual delivers financial security to millions with life, disability income and long-term care insurance, and investments.

Founded in 1857

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA

5001-10000 employees

https://www.northwesternmutual.com

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