The Business Intelligence & Insights Analyst at Majid Al Futtaim will be expected to work closely across various business units & business verticals in MAF to identify and generate customized insights via leveraging data tools/dashboards, with the objective to recommend specific actions businesses can take to bridge opportunity gaps, lead project adoption end to end, from conceptualization/ideation phase to action. Beyond being hands on with data, analysis and insight generation, the Manager of BI&I will also closely work and collaborate with multiple stakeholders across MAF businesses to aid databased decision making.

Duties of Business Intelligence & Insights Analyst

• Develop in-depth understanding of MAF businesses and proactively engage with the team/key stakeholders on opportunities identified through delivering breakthrough insight analytics.
• Proactively lead engagements across the group to drive analytics agenda.
• Put in place initiatives that disseminates regular drumbeat of insights to the businesses/verticals.
• Take responsibility to ensure insights delivered are received and actioned upon by the stakeholders and owning accountability on incrementality resulting from it.
• Develop in-depth understanding of external business environment including market trends, competition, regional and global benchmarks relevant for MAF group.
• Identify and scoping BI, reporting and data analysis needs through close collaboration with function leads across the different business units.
• Capture and interpret detailed user requirements on business cases/studies and define optimum BI solution to meet user needs.
• Contribute to Group/XSIGHT vision of delivering high data accuracy.
• Proactively partner with data engineering and BUs to ensure data is accurately and effectively utilized across the group.
• Demonstrate leadership by developing and embedding insight led analytics vs data reporting.
• Collect/extract required data from multiple sources including but not limited to internal data warehouse, market data, etc.
• Define data quality standards and devise data validation rules on collected data sets to ensure that the data used and presented is accurate.
• Develop automated and reusable routines for extracting requested information.

What You’ll Do More?

• Pull and model data from our data lake and data warehouse to create quantitative models of business trends.
• Proactively communicate with business unit/XSIGHT vertical stakeholders to (a) drive insights to action & (b) maintain delivery of constant stream of insights, own strategic consultation to the business.
• Constant focus on enabling MAF to win externally by bringing the “outside in”; Deliver insights leveraging external data complimenting it with internal data lake.
• Deliver and own at least 1-2 new data capabilities in line with group strategic needs/priority.
• Work with Sales, Operations, Business Intelligence, Marketing and other stakeholders to establish the right metrics/KPI’s for monitoring their businesses.
• Execute quantitative analyses that translate data into actionable insights; provide analytical and data-driven decision-making support for key projects.
• Generate and go deep on consumer insights and competitive intelligence to help teams drive product innovation and iteration.
• Communicate insights in compelling ways, creating data story telling.
• Operate independently via owning relationships across the group.
• Own individual capabilities and lead upskilling trainings/workshops within BI&I to ensure the team.
• Develop powerful BI dashboards to address business problems including using effective visualizations, creating a story flow and clearly communicating insights and recommending solutions.

Eligibility Requirements

The eligibility requirements for role  of Senior Business Intelligence & Insights Analyst are as under:

• Bachelor’s degree in in a quantitative field (business, math, economics, finance, statistics, science, engineering).
• 5-7 years of experience in Business Analysis, Analytics, in FMCG, research/analytics agency or management consultancy.
• Strong experience in deriving insights from data and driving change in large organizations at all management levels.
• 5-7 years of experience on data analytics, stakeholder management & problem solving.
• Hands-on experience with SQL, Power BI, Tableu, Python, involving datasets and multiple data sources.
• Vertica experience preferred.

Skills Desired

• Strong market knowledge and solid research capabilities including scanning and capturing market information, insights, etc.
• Demonstrated use of both internal and external research & analytics. metrics, and benchmarking to drive decisions.
• Highly analytical, with a track record of being a strong problem solver.
• Capable of translating data into meaningful analysis and insights, presenting to business stakeholders, and driving value for the business.
• Story telling mindset to drive insights is critical.
• Proven track record of project management and organizational skills.
• Ability to initiate, prioritize, and execute analysis/insights projects with minimal guidance across businesses and leadership levels.
• Confident, highly engaging team player with a history of managing/training a team.
• Passion for insights generation through analytics, with bias to action and taking leadership responsibility.
• Personal curiosity for exploring data proactively, strong influencing ability.

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