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The IT Associate Manager is a leadership role in business environment, responsible for developing a high functioning team and coaching team members to support skills development and career growth. The Associate Manager is responsible for planning and managing all projects and budgets within assigned business areas to deliver business value.
What You'll Be Doing:
- Manages team of analysts working closely with Marketing and Merchandising partners.
- Responsible for talent development, including active coaching to support team members’ technical and functional skills and career growth.
- Develops resourcing strategies, tools and specialized support necessary for analytic implementation and successful customer rollout.
- Develops and maintains an analytical development roadmap that supports business objectives.
- Ensure delivery of business value including strategy for support and participation in on-call rotation.
- Manages relationships with business partners and external vendors.
- Assesses project viability and recommends strategies and tactics to satisfy customer needs. Manages the execution and delivery of projects.
- Provides direction to project teams and integrates activities with other IT functions to ensure successful implementation and support of project efforts.
- Facilitates the removal of agile train blockers and impediments.
- Ensures that analytical systems are developed in a way that complies with security and architectural standards and established methodologies.
- Monitors and reports on the status of multiple, concurrent project efforts.
- Responsible for team member staffing and selection.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s & Master’s degrees in Data Science, Statistics, Business Analytics or related discipline or equivalent work experience and technical training is required.
- 5 years of experience in analytical development, including implementation and installation in an online environment.
- Demonstrating leadership skills and possessing a track record of managing technical staff (cross-functional experience highly desirable).
- Familiarity managing budgets and understanding impact of financial decisions to P&L.
- Conceptual knowledge of analytical technologies and methodologies
- Experience in the retail industry or in a production/service environment is preferred.
- Demonstrated ability to build and develop teams.
- Demonstrated strong abilities in relationship management.
- Successfully developed and implemented analytics in new computing architecture environments using new and emerging technologies.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multidiscipline, high-performance work teams and development groups.
- Demonstrated competency in the execution of multiple projects, including managing resources across multiple projects to meet goals.
- Developed efficient and effective solutions to diverse and complex business problems.