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Manager, Strategic Analytics
Comcast
Philadelphia, PA, United States
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Manager Strategic Analytics
The Comcast Enterprise Business Intelligence (EBI) Strategic Analytics team is looking for a hands-on analytical thought leader to partner with the Senior Director, Strategic Analytics who enjoys rolling up their sleeves to solve complex business questions through data.
The successful candidate will:
• Be able to partner and build successful and strong relationships with the business partners including product teams to find game changing insights through quantitative analysis
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and conduct analysis that drives meaningful change on KPIs and critical objectives established by the Business Units
• Be adept at managing competing priorities through planned and ad-hoc requests
• Have experience working and joining together large, disparate data sets to uncover actionable insights
• Promote and evangelize a culture of excellence, data driven discussions, healthy skepticism, intellectual curiosity, knowledge sharing and teamwork while maintaining an environment that is upbeat and fun
• Prepare easy to follow & succinct documents summarizing findings / insights and actions
Core Responsibilities:
• Leverages analytical background to determine when certain quantitative research tools and models should be used and assists in interpretation and development of implications to address client problems
• Supports analytic plans for key business issues raised by clients to ensure that all important issues are addressed fully, appropriately, and accurately
• Able to filter through the ambiguity of business problems to be able to produce a high-quality analysis
• Carries out post-event analysis to validate forecast assumptions and identifies all additional factors associated with the change
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to adapt to variable schedule(s) as necessary, and work through other duties and responsibilities as assigned
Other Competencies:
• Effective communication skills ability to 'tell the story'
• Highly Proficient in SQL
• Proficient in or willing to learn other analytical tools such as R, SAS or Python
• Big Data Experience a plus working with Hortonworks/Hadoop
• Ability to grasp complex analytic principles and techniques
• Strong business acumen & demonstrated aptitude for analytics that incite action
• 'Lean forward' bias to find opportunities and drive results
• Exceptional attention to detail and ability to progress multiple analyses in parallel
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to work effectively across functions, disciplines and levels
• Work on problems requiring judgment and in-depth evaluation of multiple factors
• Independently identify key issues, patterns or deviations from norm
• Skill in identifying data issues and anomalies during analysis
Educational Level:
• Minimum: BA/BS degree in marketing, economics, statistics, psychology, engineering, computer science, mathematics, or finance
• Preferred: MA/MS degree in a quantitative discipline
Experience:
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in analytic role
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