Senior Manager Retail Analytics - Europe (M/F/D)
Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization :
As a Senior Manager Retail Analytics, you will be responsible for making Europe retail and franchise successful by enabling consistent data and analytics across all impact areas, continuously improve data centric & insight-based decision making and remove duplication of work, as well of creating a hub of data expertise for EU market.
Key Responsibilities :
- Develop a consistent reporting framework for Europe Retail, in accordance with Europe Retail and Franchise key strategic priorities.
- Innovate processes, procedures, tools, and ways of working by pro-actively identifying opportunities to leverage analytics and technologies.
- Define innovation roadmap, align with Retail SLT, and drive on-time implementation by closely monitoring progress, results, and milestones, proposing solutions in case of delays or deviations from plan; drive decision making.
- Act as a change agent and accelerator for machine-based forecasting as well as other innovative tools / technologies / methods by providing trainings for the Europe Retail community, organizing workshops / learning days, identifying & sharing relevant learning opportunities, etc
- Enable consistent reports for all stake holders ranging from Store teams, District Teams, Back office Retail Leadership Team
- Develop tactical and strategic reporting & analytics for Leadership to drive critical decisions in Retail.
- Create new forecasting and data modelling to identify the marginal gains in the business, particularly :
o Improved NS daily Forecasting to drive conversion / SCM / scheduling opportunities
o Leveraging opportunity using Machine learning / Artificial intelligence skills
o Improved Correlation analysis on various factors impacting performance.
- Contribute to Europe TRNS4RM to ensure consistency and continuity in Reporting
- Drive maintenance of exiting dashboards and support leadership analytics
- Validates quality of data, creates data models, new reports, views connection. Works with D&A team to continuously improve data quality and availability.
- Proactively share business insights to SLT and relevant stakeholders to initiate actions to enhance Retail and Franchise performances.
Key Relationships :
- Retail & Franchise Backoffice functions
- Finance Retail
- Zone / cluster local teams.
- Other Senior District Managers Retail Europe.
- Global Retail
- Global D&A team
- Other Markets
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities :
- Authentic belief in the power of analytics and technological development, a strong will to innovate ways of working combined with the proven execution ability & stamina to effect lasting change Problem solving skills and solution orientation.
- In depth understanding of the underlying internal and external commercial driver model for forecasting within a Retail and / or brand driven environment
- Broad and deep project management skills and experience in larger scale projects and / or change programs / initiatives;
Experience in managing difficult and conflictual situations and meetings.
- Compelling storyteller who can balance information requests from senior executives, stakeholders, and cross functional business leaders.
- Ability to think strategically, independently structure, analyze, and synthesize findings / dynamic inputs and develop innovative solutions within an entrepreneurial, fast changing environment.
- Strong ability to collaborate and influence across different levels and departments, internally and externally.
- Proven track record of executing with excellence in environments that require a detail-oriented approach and the ability to manage multiple stakeholders and priorities simultaneously under tight timelines.
- Proven creativity and curiosity to identify and solve a wide range of Function / Business challenges.
- Strong analytical skills, managing large data quantities from multiple sources.
- Solid understanding of descriptive statistics and experience in Statistical modelling combined with strong visualization capabilities is a strong plus.
- Comfortable working in a matrix organization, dynamic retail environment.
- Performance / results driven attitude, open to change and act as advocate for the new’, creative, and collaborative mindset.
- Strong leadership, interpersonal and communication skills.
- Strong people management skills, role-modeling.
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications :
- University Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Engineering, or similar qualification
- 5-10 years of operational finance experience within Retail / Fashion and / or brand-driven environment
- Experience in project management and in facilitating workshops.
- Fluent in English (spoken and written).