Analytics Product & Enablement Manager FTC

A part of Colgate-Palmolive since 1976, Hill's Pet Nutrition offers the highest-quality pet nutrition available through product lines Prescription Diet and Science Diet. Veterinarians worldwide recommend and feed their own pets Hill's products more than any other brand of pet food. Available in approximately 80 countries around the world, our extensive line of products includes more than 60 Prescription Diet brand pet foods and more than 50 Science Diet brand pet foods. We believe all animals should be loved and cared for during their lifetimes. That is why we are proud our pet foods can make a difference in your pet's life.

Location: Woking, UK

Reporting to: Senior Analytics & Insights Manager

Duration: 12 months

Why Work For Hill's Pet Nutrition:

• The learning & development opportunities: You will refine your commercial mind-set and continue to learn new skills working closely with a cross-functional team giving you exposure to all local market departments.
• The challenge & variety: You will operate in a fast paced operational environment, directly impacting the day-to-day performance of the business, with personal accountability for your business.
• The global experience: You will have the opportunity to work with global brands, participate in global strategies with potential to develop your career internationally.

Job Purpose

The Analytics Product & Enablement Management role is being established in the EMEA regional team to accelerate our ability to convert our data into valuable visualisations & insights that drive growth based decision making in our region. It’s a critical business translation role that will sit between our business teams & our technical teams - working to scope, design & develop effective, scalable analytic solutions which will step change the speed & effectiveness of our commercial decision making. This role requires a high level of partner management so strong management & communication skills are essential, together with commercial experience of Sales Analytics & Technical BI background. The ideal candidate for this role will be innovative in their thinking, comfortable with ambiguity and have strong collaboration/presentation skills.

What you will do

• Business Translation

• Partner & collaborate with our local market business teams & central teams to understand their business challenges & questions that analytics can solve for.
• Design user led analytic solutions scalable across the region - collaborating with all key partners for aligned approval.
• Understand the data readiness of the required data sets within our data foundation & create the vital briefing documentation for our engineering teams.
• Create a process that enables agility within the development process to ensure technical resource management is optimised & collaborators continuously engaged.
• Lead the development of an integrated & well structured set of commercial dashboards that will facilitate EMEA reporting for our regional team.
• Establish standard process for visualization principles to ensure all audience personas are catered for & UX is optimised for fast decision making.
• Build & share a set of visualisation style guidelines to create consistency & support intuitive interpretation by regional leaders.

• Manage a soft launch rollout programme that will facilitate testing & iteration of new dashboards before wider scaled launches.
• Support the adoption of newly developed dashboards or tools by delivering user led training that focuses on interpretation & maximising insights available.
• Track the usage of dashboards & tools to ensure we’re supporting those of high use & understanding drivers by low use/optimising for greater value.

• Support the establishment of an Analytics Community across our local markets to further build our analytic capabilities.
• Be a key sponsor for local sales analysts in order to raise data quality challenges & IT support required to drive better efficiency in our automation processes.
• Identify & organize any training opportunities that will further develop our sales analysts capabilities & support them to elevate their analytic skills & outputs locally.

What you are:

• Bachelor's Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Computer Science, Business Analytics, or related field.
• Minimum 8 years proven ability in Business Intelligence, Visualisation Engineering or related Analytics Field.
• Experience working in or very closely with commercial teams highly beneficial.
• Strong Experience with Data Visualization tools like Google Data Studio, DOMO, Power BI and Tableau.
• Experience with cloud environments (Snowflake, Google Cloud Platform) and SAP.
• Understanding of data architecture and data engineering, and ML ops.
• Experience with CPG/Pet Health/Professional Indirect Industries preferred.
• Proficiency with SQL, dbt beneficial.
• Proficiency with Python or R beneficial.
• Able to lead multiple concurrent projects independently, meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Exceptional attention to detail, able to quality check their own work for anomalies/mistakes prior to delivery of work.
• Comfortable working in an unstructured environment, navigating ambiguity, and bringing clarity and structure to their work.
• Hands-on “can do” approach, with willingness to learn and adapt quickly.
• Demonstrate collaborative team building skills, work cross functionally with multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrate problem solving skills, and ability to find practical business insights from large and sophisticated data sets.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills, able to communicate technical concepts & information to a non-technical audience in a clear & compelling manner.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.