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Director, Advanced Data Analytics
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Boston, MA, United States
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The Information Technology organization at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) is transforming to realize our mission: Become a leader in HMH’s digital transformation,and as a strategic partner, innovate and deliver highest value, competitive advantage solutions across all corporate and business functions.
Our ambition is to be a digital leader through innovation and develop and deliver leading edge technology such as robotic process automation and artificial intelligence to solve some of HMH’s greatest operational business challenges. Our professionals will have business relevant skills to connect our HMH partners to technologies that propel the businesses to deliver the greatest value for HMH and our customers.
We are building a team of IT professionals with an insatiable appetite to learn, a relentless focus on customer service, a technological curiosity toward future possibilities, and a creativity in solving business challenges with leading technologies. Our team will find ways to work together, create a sense of community where it’s safe to take risks and learn together, develop our careers, and all have an opportunity to work on innovative technologies. We will work together, learn together and have fun together. As a team, we will lead HMH’s digital transformation.
Director, Advanced Analytics
The Director, Advanced Analytics is a key position reporting directly to the IT SVP, Data Analytics & Global IT Services. The primariy responsibility of the Director, Advanced Analytics is to apply sophisticated modeling and other advanced analytic techniques to help guide our business decisions. This position will be charged with designing/developing the analytic processes and execution ongoing. In addition to the technical aspects required, it will involve cultivating and maintaining effective working relationships with a variety of parties including internal stakeholders, 3rd-party vendors, external clients, and operational areas within HMH. This position is located in Boston, Massachusetts.
Duties & Responsibilities
Spearhead modeling and analytic efforts to provide insights into new product launches/initiatives.
Constantly look for ways to improve the usage of HMH’s existing data and analytics infrastructure
Work with stakeholders to improve current analytic processes and develop new capabilities.
Use automation and technology to increase efficiency and to provide the infrastructure to scale.
Bring an "outside in perspective" to analytic development; explore, identify and assess external best practices - and translate to the relevant application internally.
Cultivate and maintaining effective working relationships- internally and externally
Establish and maintain excellent working relationship with key functional areas and internal stakeholders throughout HMH.
Skills & Experience
Required Experience:
10+ years of experience leading Advanced Analytics teams.
Bachelor’s degree required, preferably with a strong education in Statistics
Demonstrated ability to be creative; to put structure around vague and unstructured requests/discussions.
Comfortable in dealing with ambiguity and managing change, plus the capacity to move through road-blocks with enthusiasm
Strong verbal communication skills, extremely well-organized.
Desired Skills:
Experience managing or training any team staff is preferred
Ability to generate clear, concise and comprehensive analyses that tell the story behind the data
Business acumen – understands the strategic levers of the business and how analytics is a catalyst for decision making.
Analytical mindset with knowledge and passion for media, data and technology.
Creative thinker that is willing to challenge the norm to improve analytic processes.
Proactive individual with strong problem-solving skills and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Pragmatic – seeks and develops solutions understanding and communicating the relevance to others.
Ability to translate technical subject matter into relatable business terminology and respond to unexpected questions on the spot.
Proven effectiveness in managing business relationships.
Experience in fast-paced environment, possessing the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously.
Physical Requirements:
Might be in a stationary position for a considerable time (sitting and/or standing)
The person in this position needs to move about inside office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer
Must be able to collaborate with colleagues via face to face, conference calls, and online meetings
ABOUT US:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourtis a global learning company with the mission of changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. Among the world's largest providers of pre-K-12 education solutions, HMH combines cutting-edge research, editorial excellence and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. HMH's interactive, results-driven education solutions are utilized by 50 million students in over 150 countries, and its renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works are enjoyed by readers throughout the world.
PLEASE NOTE:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is an equal employment opportunity employer and participates in E-Verify. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of gender, race/ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected group status.