Strategy & Operations Lead
Location: London
Length: 11m
Rate: £47.84 per hour (Inside IR35)
Hours: 9am – 6pm
REF no: 741696
This client is a top 5 tech giant and one of the world’s most popular search engines.
This is a hybrid role, so you will split your time between home office and the clients offices in central London. On-site you will be able to access their amazing facilities and quirky working spaces, as well as free breakfast/ lunch/ dinner, on-site gyms, outdoor spaces and roof gardens, wellness rooms and sleep pods.
Drive outcomes for one or more analyses or a piece of an overarching analysis (e.g., research, experimental design using analytical tools to test hypotheses and draw conclusions, storytelling and consulting to business leaders to drive action, and designing data strategies for reporting and dashboards) as an individual contributor.
Lead efforts on business analyses to translate data into actionable insights.
Identify key market drivers for business stakeholders.
Contribute to analysis, scoping, managing priorities in alignment with multiple work streams, and allocating resources by knowing what resources are available and how to access each one.
Challenge
Use analytical reasoning to identify defined business problems with multiple approaches and help provide optimal solutions.
Address and articulate conflicts between the goals and objectives of stakeholders by understanding the nature of the problem and underlying assumptions.
Build new processes, procedures, methods, tests, and components with foresight to anticipate and address future business issues or concerns.
Influence
Influence teams with similar objectives to align resources and direction to achieve results.
Develop rich relationships, internally and externally, offer support and direction to team members, and foster teamwork and mutual respect.
Work with cross-functional teams to push work forward and drive successful outcomes.
Communicate business results and related findings to senior leadership and to the broader organization by delivering presentations and addressing key takeaways.
Guide the integration of multiple adjacent processes, timelines, goals, and objectives.
Communicate goals, progress, and roadblocks clearly to clients, stakeholders, and team members.
Actively ensure the integration of the team’s activities and deliverables with other related work.
Expertise
Act as a subject matter specialist in business and data analytics, statistical methods, and business context for one or more client organizations.
Utilize comprehensive knowledge of principles and industry best practices to design experiments that address issues or evaluate impact.
Demonstrate research fluency and comfort applying state-of-the-art research methods.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/EDUCATION:
Business operations knowledge
Knowledge of the management process of business operations for a given product, service, or domain. This includes understanding the broader context of generating, securing, and increasing the value of business and revenue outcomes, and knowledge of and experience with driving efficiency and effectiveness of businesses.
Consultative skills
Ability to understand stakeholder needs through dialogue before conducting analysis and making recommendations.
Dashboarding and presentation
Ability to create dashboards to link, report, and analyze metrics based on available data. This includes the ability to prepare effective presentations in content and function, and to speak competently to the level of the audience.
Data analysis and synthesis
Ability to analyze information, draw conclusions, generate alternatives and solutions, and evaluate outcomes. This includes the ability to use data to add value to business planning and strategies.
Data judgment
Ability to convert and/or uncover open-ended real world problems within the business context into trackable metrics or a structured analytical/statistical framework, as well as the ability to generate business-related insights from data analysis in a way that is meaningful to the stakeholders.
Domain-specific knowledge and skills
Ability to develop, understand, and apply domain-specific technical knowledge to complete assigned work, tasks, and support others in the organization.
Experimental design
Knowledge of the principles and best practices of designing experiments to address issues or evaluate impact. This includes knowledge of design parameters, sampling strategies, data collection, and analytical techniques.
Industry knowledge
Knowledge of the changing landscape of the industry, product areas, other key players, and/or markets including technology trends and issues that affect the operations of one’s business and organization.
Project management skills
Ability to effectively prioritize work, display reasonable judgment in setting priorities, and recognizing when help is needed. This includes the ability to determine long-term versus short-term priorities.
Statistical analysis
Knowledge of advanced statistical methods used to analyze data. This includes the ability to identify and conduct appropriate advanced statistical analysis to evaluate sample adequacy, draw inferences, and solve a variety of data-related problems.
Storytelling
Ability to influence and inspire an audience by crafting stories using data that elicit empathy or create buy-in.
Technical acumen
Ability to quickly learn the general concepts and principles in a statistical and mathematical domain, solve or analyze issues or provide useful insights, and demonstrate interest and curiosity in acquiring knowledge across similar domains.
