Data Excellence Associate Manager

• Serve as a leading team member in the Affiliate team, working cross-functionally to design and execute ad-hoc analysis in specific domains (i.e. In-Field Teams Activity, Content) and be a trusted partner for Affiliate brand teams and leadership.
• Drive the engagement of affiliates stakeholders to define business questions, requirements, timelines, objectives, and success criteria for data analysis initiatives.
• Work closely with Business Technology Solutions (BTS) and CEx WWD team to ensure smooth transition of pilots into production, including technical guidance with respect to replication and scaling, with specific focus on visualizations. Ensure Data Analysis and Visualization components and projects are conducted on time, accurately, within budget, and in accordance with financial and ethical compliance guidelines.
• Collaborate to transform data into business insights that are useful for decision making and strategic planning utilizing complex statistical models and algorithms. Identify the best way to disseminate information through utilization of different tools and visual elements to stakeholders.
• Guiding Data Pipeline Development (content checks, preparation, mapping, joining, stitching). Understand and assess data fit and quality, informing and partnering with the local and international data steward to maintain the highest data standards.
• Has a deep understanding of AbbVie data assets and Ontology in Foundry. Define data entities and objects requirements and brief the Data Engineering team to create the appropriate environments.
• Oversee, analyze and prepare data to be used by the Data Scientists team. Understanding business requirements, utilize data sets of varying degrees of size and complexity to inform the development of Machine Learning algorithms. On top, he/she will be responsible for the rollout of new Call Plan Optimizer (CPO) in new brand / indications in Italy and maintenance of all other existing CPO's.
• Together with the other Data Excellence team members is responsible for training newcomers on our Analytical Tools (ie. QlikSense, NGA) mainly focused on In-Field Team and Commercial Headquarter colleagues.
• Local champion of international use cases like ACE Pulse, Content Dashboard.
• Actively represent Italy in the International CEx WWD Community.

• A relevant bachelor's degree in operations research computer science, data engineering, data science, mathematics, statistics or economics. A Master's Degree or MBA will be a plus.
• Fluency in English is a must (written & spoken).
• Minimum 3-5 years working in business analytics, data analyst, market research, data engineering or data science roles.
• Analytical reasoning abilities, intellectual curiosity, business acumen, and creativity in problem solving. Strong communication skills, people person. Ability to interact effectively with/present to (verbally and in writing) all levels of the organization (up to Affiliates GM). Ability to be agile & nimble to changing business conditions, strong collaboration, and teamwork across functional groups to contribute to a productive work culture. Lead strategically and create trust and respect within the department.
• Analyzing and drawing insights from key internally generated and external data sets. Ability to operate Exploratory Data Analysis with advanced tools and processes in multiple environments. Ability to define use cases and develop high-quality visualizations to provide excellent user experience. Foundry-related skills and experience (desired), including data preparation, pipeline inputs and development and visualization using Foundry Apps (monocle, forms, workshop, slate, etc).

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