Specialist – Sales Analytics & Forecasting

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The Sales Analytics Specialist is a seasoned subject matter expert, accountable for driving the success of sales operations through comprehensive data analysis, valuable insights, and strategic decision support.

This role operates within a multifaceted environment, encompassing various sales analytics domains, and involves collaborating with cross-functional teams.

The primary responsibility of the Sales Analytics Specialist is to provide data-driven support for business planning and strategic decision-making by leveraging their seasoned understanding of the business context.

Key responsibilities:

• Participates in tactical and strategic projects with cross-functional virtual teams to achieve specific business objectives.
• Responsible for analyzing complex business problems and issues using internal and external data to provide insights to decision-makers. Identifies and interpret trends and patterns in relevant datasets to locate influences and proactively identify meaningful quantitative analysis for distribution to business stakeholders to inform business decisions.
• Creates documented specifications for reports and analysis based on business needs and required or available data elements.
• Defines, develops, enhances, and tracks metrics and dashboard requirements to deliver results and provide insight and recommendations on trends.
• Responsible for data validation using advanced data analysis and tools to ensure analytics are valid, meaningful, and provide actionable and comprehensive insights.
• Supports the team answer strategic questions, make insightful data-driven business decisions, and properly design new initiatives.
• Priovides technical advice, consultation, and knowledge to others within the relevant teams.
• Creates relevant reports and present on trends to convey actionable insights to stakeholders.
• Performs any other related task as required.

Knowledge, Skills and Attributes:

• Seasoned understanding of advanced data analysis techniques, and the ability to uncover strategic insights from data.
• Seasoned understanding of the business's sales objectives, market dynamics, and industry trends, with the ability to align data analysis with strategic objectives.
• Seasoned collaboration skills, enabling effective teamwork with cross-functional teams and senior management.
• Seasoned ability to translate complex data insights into actionable, understandable strategies for non-technical stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to convey complex data findings in a clear and actionable manner to non-technical stakeholders.
• Seasoned understanding of data analysis tools including advanced Excel, advanced PowerBI, and at least one relevant coding language (for example DAX, R, Python etc.).
• Seasoned understanding of Structured Query Language for managing and querying relational databases.
• Seasoned knowledge of techniques for transforming and structuring data for analysis and knowledge of ETL processes for data extraction and transformation.
• Advanced understanding of data security and privacy best practices, especially if working with sensitive or sensitive data.
• Seasoned understanding of the business domain, industry, and the ability to translate data insights into actionable business recommendations.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Data Science or related field.
• Relevant sales analytics certifications desirable.

Required experience:

• Seasoned demonstrated experience in a sales or marketing function as a data analyst.
• Seasoned demonstrated experience in using PowerBI, statistical and quantitative analysis techniques, data visualizations, data analysis.
• Seasoned proven track record in creating and optimizing reports and dashboards that contribute to strategic decision support.
• Seasoned proven experience in providing data-driven support for business planning and strategic decision-making.

Workplace type:

Remote Working

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