**Job responsibilities: **
- Lead the design and implementation of analytics solutions, ensuring alignment with business objectives and integration with business processes.
- Provide thought leadership and client management, offering strategic direction to drive business decisions and enhance customer/employee experience.
- Develop, plan, and execute multiple analytical projects, stakeholder meetings, and facilitating discussions with senior leaders.
- Support a product design discipline to deliver scalable data products informed by analytics.
- Identify, Align, Manage, develop, and retain talent, fostering an environment of open communication and fair performance assessment.
- Identify new project opportunities to grow the business pipeline and evaluate upcoming AI-based tools for strategic adoption.
- Serve as an Analytics Solutions Lead, guiding junior Analytics Solutions analysts/associates to solve business problems that drive qualitative and quantitative business value, and when necessary, as an individual contributor.
- Leverage Design Thinking practices to develop strategic, end-to-end, scalable solutions; coach others to inject the same practices into their work.
- Guide project teams in synthesizing analytical findings for consumption by internal analytical clients and senior executives.
- Establish and manage relationships with internal clients and partners.
- Identify new project opportunities helping to grow our business pipeline for respective books of work.
- Recruit, develop and retain talent by creating an environment of open communication that prioritizes continued learning and growth.
- Lead internal FAST initiatives to set the strategic direction of FAST, enable the team to operate at scale in a global operating model, and strengthen the team culture, locally and globally.
- Maintain a rigorous controls environment to ensure accurate and timely results.
- Set standards of excellence for the team by demonstrating professional expertise, strong work ethic, integrity and professional behavior.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Excellent communication, with an ability to convey the strategic vision in a digestible manner for varying technical and senior audiences
- Experience with design thinking practices and tools (e.g., Lucid, Figma, customer journey mapping) and product management principles (e.g., Agile)
- 4+ years of industry experience in consulting, banking analytics, or other relevant business analytics roles (e.g., marketing analytics, sales analytics, business insights)
- Consulting orientation with ability to influence and effectively lead cross-functional teams
- Experience leading project teams and coaching/mentoring early career talent, and improving team culture of a new or existing team
- Self-starter with out-of-the box problem solving skills and a drive to bring new ideas to life
- Strong time management skills, with ability to multi-task and keep multiple projects on track
- Experience with data analytics and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau, Alteryx)
- Experience and knowledge of data science and analytical methodologies and approaches, and familiarity with various artificial intelligence functionalities
- Experience managing a team and developing talent.
- Strong time management skills and experience with project management tools.
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:
- Deep understanding of the financial services or retail banking industry.
- MBA or other Master's degree
- Experience with data wrangling, data analytics techniques, and/or visualization techniques (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau)