Data & Analytics Manager, India Lead

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

Together with analytics team leaders you will support our business with excellent data models to uncover trends that can drive long-term business results.

How you will contribute

You will: 

• Work in close partnership with the business leadership team to execute the analytics agenda
• Identify and incubate best-in-class external partners to drive delivery on strategic projects
• Develop custom models/algorithms to uncover signals/patterns and trends to drive long-term business performance
• Execute the business analytics program agenda using a methodical approach that conveys to stakeholders what business analytics will deliver

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Using data analysis to make recommendations to senior leaders
• Technical experience in roles in best-in-class analytics practices
• Experience deploying new analytical approaches in a complex and highly matrixed organization
• Savvy in usage of the analytics techniques to create business impacts

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible
As the D&A Analytics lead for India, you will lead crafting Data & Analytics strategic vision & roadmap, building momentum by rallying the rest of the organization, implementing data & analytics identified priorities to deliver strong business value across all levels of organization at right cost structure, facilitating and conceptualizing adoption plans as well as continuous improvement plans.

How You Will Contribute
You will:

• Lead the D&A agenda and roadmap for the market by collaborating closely with senior business stakeholders to deliver strong business value across functions in the organization.

• Collaborate across Business and MDS functions to build and develop demands by maximizing our resources of D&A across Data Management, Analytics Products and Data Science resources – this requires strong collaboration and influencing skills to drive adoption, relevancy, and business impact with speed.

• Work with the India Data Hub Lead to deliver long-term data enablement plans, execute / provide custodianship of data & data governance, and enable AI-Ready data for the organization.

• Present, share insights with right storytelling at key leadership forums in business language

• Building capability within the teams including leading, coaching, guiding and inspiring the direct and indirect internal & external teams, multifunctional teams inthe business unit in order to build a robust ecosystem that can deliver and embed analytics in the identified business processes.

• Minimizing complexity, establishing right ways of working to accelerate path to value by being choiceful and creative as well as having a growth mindset everyday will be essential.

Creating value from business-driven data and analytics initiatives at scale. An important task for theIndia D&A Analytics Lead is to support the business and other stakeholders in their solving their business problems via relevant data & analytics. This means they will support the business during various stages. In the inspiration phase they help the business in identifying the right use cases and support prioritization based on feasibility and value. In the ideation phase they help with the development of a minimum viable product and business case. During the implementation phase they make sure the service or product is adopted (by the employees), embedded in the workflow (process) and measured for impact.

Raise the level of data coverage, usage, easy access and literacy in the organization. To become data driven the organization needs employees who canidentify, understand and speak data. It will be critical to understand wide variety of diverse and most important data sources and constructs, analytical methods and techniquesin order to drive analytics at scale whether it is bespoke analytics scaled solutions or minimumviable products or self service by employees including analysts, data scientists or functional employees at large. Activities includeidentifying key datasets, building reusable dataassets, education and coaching of the employees to become more“data-savvy” and facilitating data-centric business thinking while accelerating pervasive and bespoke analytics.

Helps uncover and translate business requirements and stakeholder needs. This translation needs to be done in such a way that the technical specialists in the D&A team can understand (Data Management, Analytics Products, Partners and / or Data Science resources). This requires an understanding of both the business objectives, goals, and domain expertise, as well as data, analytics and technology concepts, methods, and techniques. It also requires strong soft skills with a focus on communication. It will be critical to interact and build trust with BU leadership team to support their data driven vision, strategy and operating models as well as influence & leverage broader D&A teams to deliver the roadmap for India.

The role will lead analytics delivery for India delivered initiatives & BI development (reports, dashboard, visualization) and/or data governance (stewardship best practices). 

Data & analytics skills

Must have a good understanding of the concepts, methods and techniques used:

• Analytics, for example diagnostic, descriptive, predictive and prescriptive.

• AI, for examplemachine learning, natural language processing.

• Data management, for example data integration (ETL) or metadata.

• Data architecture, for example the difference between data warehouse, data lake or data hub.

• Data modelling, for creation of right reusable data assets

• Data governance, for example MDM, data quality and data stewardship practices.

• Statistical skills, for example understanding the difference between correlation and causation.

Technology skills

Good understanding of the tools and technologies in the D&A team:

• Programming languages like SQL, Python or R and notebooks like R Studio or Jupyter.

• Data integration tools like Informatica or Talend.

• Analytics and Business Intelligence tools like Microsoft Power BI or Tableau.

Soft skills

• Leadership with high level of self-initiative and drive, for example leading the discussions on D&A agenda in the BU and building a combined vision across multiple stakeholders.
• Communication, for example conveying information to diverse audiences in a way that is easily understood and actionable.
• Facilitation and conflict resolution, for example hosting sessions to elicit ideas from others, understand their issues and encourage group participation.
• Creative thinking and being comfortable with unknown or unchartered territories, for example framing new concepts for business teams and brainstorming with business users about future product and services.
• Teamwork, for example working with both business domain teams as well as D&A teams and MDS stakeholders.
• Collaboration,for example fostering group problem solving and solution creation with business and technical team members.
• Relationship management, for example creating relationships and builds trust with internal and external stakeholders quickly.
• Storytelling, for example by creating a consistent, clear storyline for better understanding.
• Influencing, for example by asserting ideas and persuading others to gain support across an organization or to adopt new behaviors.

Domain skills

Must have a good understanding of the business process and associated data:

• Business Acumen, for example understanding business concepts, practices and business domain language to engage in problem solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language.
• Business Process Transformation, for example ability to understand how D&A can help redesign the way work is done.
• Business data, for example the structure, ownership and use within an organization.

Other skills

• Agility, Growth mindset will be crucial

• Project management capabilities including ability to manage risks, for example understanding of project management concepts to organize their own work and the ability to collaborate with project managers to align business expectations with the D&A team delivery capabilities.

• Vendor negotiation and effort estimation skills,for example to manage the right partner skills at right cost based on the complexity and importance of the initiatives to be delivered or supported

• Business case development, for example to help develop support for the experimenting selected use cases or measure the impact/business value created. For this the role can collaborate with business analysts in sales, marketing, RGM, finance or supply chain.

• Decision modelling, for example, supports decision makers and improves complicated decisions that involve trade-offs among alternative courses of action by using decision-problem models. 

• UX/design, for example by creating products and visualizations that are easy to work with and support the activities required by the endusers. 

Within Country Relocation support available and for candidates voluntarily moving internationally some minimal support is offered through our Volunteer International Transfer PolicyBusiness Unit SummaryMondelez India Foods Private Limited (formerly Cadbury India Ltd.) has been in India for over 70 years, making sure our mouth-watering and well-loved local and global brands such as Cadbury chocolates, Bournvita and Tang powdered beverages, Oreo and Cadbury Bournvita biscuits, and Halls and Cadbury Choclairs Gold candies get safely into our customers hands—and mouths. Headquartered in Mumbai, the company has more than 3,300 employees proudly working across sales offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai and in manufacturing facilities at Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh and Andhra Pradesh, at our global Research & Development Technical Centre and Global Business Hub in Maharashtra and in a vast distribution network across the country. We are also proud to be recognised by Avatar as the Best Companies for Women in India in 2019 – the fourth time we’ve received this award.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job TypeRegularAnalytics & ModellingAnalytics & Data Science