Specialist Manager, Analytics and Insights, Strategic Analytics

About the role

As a Specialist Manager, you will lead high-impact analytics, influence senior stakeholders, and advance data, delivery, and responsible AI practices. The work includes translating complex business questions into actionable insights and recommendations, creating executive narratives, visualizations, models, and dashboards, and ensuring analyses are accurate, relevant, and decision-ready.

Responsibilities

• Lead analytics that inform strategic business and finance decisions.
• Translate complex business questions into actionable insights and recommendations.
• Create compelling executive narratives, visualizations, models, and dashboards.
• Ensure analyses are accurate, relevant, and decision-ready.
• Lead multiple priorities, teams, and dependencies to deliver high-value outcomes.
• Establish clear goals, roles, milestones, and quality standards; address risks promptly.
• Drive implementation through effective governance, communication, and change leadership.
• Maintain reusable, traceable documentation and consistent measurement practices.
• Select and apply appropriate tools and methods to build scalable analytics solutions.
• Strengthen data standards, governance, quality, and trust.
• Champion responsible AI and GenAI practices that balance value, quality, and risk.
• Accelerate delivery through automation, reusable assets, and modern platforms.
• Advise senior leaders and cultivate trusted stakeholder relationships.
• Align cross-functional teams on roles, decisions, and accountability.
• Coach team members, provide direct feedback, and create development opportunities.
• Foster an inclusive, collaborative, high-performing team environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, finance, analytics, or a related field.
• 6+ years of experience in analytics, strategy, consulting, finance, business intelligence, FP&A, or a related field.
• Demonstrated success leading complex analytics initiatives from problem definition through implementation.
• Strong program management skills, with the ability to lead multiple priorities through ambiguity and change.
• Advanced PowerPoint and data storytelling skills.
• Working knowledge of data governance, data quality, validation, and responsible AI/GenAI practices.

Preferred qualifications

• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills.
• Experience with SQL, Python, or similar tools.
• Professional services experience.
• Experience with enterprise strategy, finance transformation, executive decision support, dashboards, KPI frameworks, or analytical models.
• Experience supporting implementation and change for strategic or analytics initiatives.

Skills

• Ability to work independently and collaborate as part of a team.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Meticulous attention to detail and quality of work product.
• Ability to build and sustain professional relationships.
• Ability to lead projects or workstreams.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple tasks in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills and professional demeanor.
• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Ability to provide clear guidance to others.

About the team

Enterprise Planning & Capital Management (EP&CM) advises business leaders on financial and strategic decisions. Within EP&CM, the Strategic Analytics team transforms financial, sales, account, workforce, and market data into actionable insights that guide leadership decisions. Key focus areas include enterprise planning and forecasting, sales target setting, automated performance and profitability reporting, and predictive revenue and demand modeling. The team also develops GenAI and machine-learning solutions that uncover client buying patterns, improve decision-making, and enable firmwide transformation.

Pay

The wage range for this role is approximately $102,500 to $171,000. Compensation decisions are based on individual skill sets, experience and training, licensure and certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including individual and organizational performance.