Head of Data Analytics

Full-time · Remote or Hybrid · Portugal, UK, Netherlands, Germany

Your impact

At Otrium, we don’t blindly fall in love with ideas, we listen to what the data tells us. As a Head of Data Analytics at Otrium, you will play a key role in ensuring that every decision at Otrium is driven by data. You will be a part of the growing Data & Analytics team and work on improving the data warehouse, building dashboards and answering complex questions about our customers and our business.

Your responsibilities

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• People management & technical leadership of a team of 8-10 Data Analysts - conduct performance cycles, train & mentor them through continuous feedback, own the Analytics team sprints
  
• Report to the Director of Data & Analytics, work closely with the data engineering team and other senior leaders to define the roadmap & long-term strategy for the data analytics function as a whole
  
• Develop robust data analytics solutions according to requirements or proactively to support a variety of stakeholders make data-driven decisions
  
• Leverage analytics & machine learning to answer complex questions about our customers and our business
  
• Work on projects that span across the entire range of data analytics – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive & prescriptive analytics
  
• Identify & resolve technical, performance and data issues with the DWH together with our data engineers
  
• Enhance our reporting platform, improve our Looker data model, create dashboards with actionable insights & provide recommendations to teams
  
• Challenge various teams on metrics/KPIs, develop improved metrics and identify process improvement opportunities
  
• The DnA team’s technology stack – Redshift, Spark, Looker, Python, dbt
  

You are... 

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• You have 7+ years of professional experience in a Data Analytics role of which 3+ years in a Analytics leadership role, both in a fast-paced and dynamic business setting
  
• You have a hands-on technical leadership style to fully understand and support the Analytics function within DnA
  
• You have a strong understanding of databases (relational, column-based) & SQL
  
• You are able to perform complex analyses, understand the intricacies of various factors, recommend decisions & are able to present them to business stakeholders
  
• Experienced in statistical techniques and implementing machine learning models in Python/R
  
• You have dash-boarding & storytelling skills (experience in Looker would be an advantage)
  
• Bonus points for relevant industry knowledge (marketing, pricing, strategy, supply chain, etc.)
  
• Bonus points if you have successfully completed a relevant Master’s degree with a strong quantitative orientation (e.g., business, economics, tech, data, econometrics, mathematics, physics)
  
• Bonus points for experience with ETL/ELT frameworks;
  
• You possess strong problem solving and analytical skills
  
• You have exceptional organisational & stakeholder management skills
  
• You are a quick learner, motivated and enjoy working with new technologies
  
• You have excellent communication skills in English (written and verbal) and are able to effectively communicate technical subject matter to technical & business stakeholders