Senior Business Analytics Analyst, Data

Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren's reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company's brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world's most widely recognized families of consumer brands. At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.

Position Overview
Based in Bengaluru, India, this Senior Data Analyst role will work as part of an elite team alongside data engineers and data visualization engineers focused on maximizing value from data while working on high priority business opportunities across all functions and geographies. The Senior Data Analyst will collaborate with line of business users, business analysts, Data Engineers and data scientists on models and algorithms to deliver analytics insights and use cases. The Senior Data Analyst will leverage analytical, visualization, and data engineering skills to solve problems, unlock opportunities and create new insights. They will identify and explore internal and external data sets. They will use visualizations and storytelling with data to share insights and inspire data driven actions. This role will require both creative and collaborative working with IT and the wider business. It will involve evangelizing effective data management practices and promoting better understanding of data and analytics. The Senior Data Analyst will also be tasked with working with key business stakeholders, IT experts and subject-matter experts to plan and deliver optimal analytics and data science solutions

Essential Duties & Responsibilities
· Analyze data to unlock insights: Move beyond descriptive reporting helping stakeholders identify relevant insights and actions from data. Use regression, cluster analysis, time series, etc. to explore relationships and trends in response to stakeholder questions and business challenges. · Create visualizations and tell great stories with data: The Senior Data Analyst must be able to communicate insights in a way that invites understanding and compels action across multiple levels of the organization. · Develop strong partnerships with key line of business stakeholders: Utilize expertise on Ralph Lauren's data and industry best practices to develop strong partnership with key stakeholders across business units in order to expand the analytics capabilities of the organization. The Senior Data Analyst will understand the needs of stakeholders as well as push the organization to adopt new ways of analyzing and visualizing data. · Design analytics solutions to the problems faced by stakeholders: Provide thought leadership to define creative solutions to problems that balance speed of execution with the ability to create sustainable wins. Understand the various sources of data, technical components of the architecture, and best practices in the industry to solve problems with speed. Ensure the design is well understood and embraced by team members. · Drive delivery of solutions in an Agile delivery model: Document requirements and solution design as stories that can be completed within a sprint. Work as part of the sprint team to ensure requirements and design are well understood and achieve the expected value. · Educate and train: The Senior Data Analyst should be curious and knowledgeable about new data initiatives and how to address them. This includes applying their data and/or domain understanding in addressing new requirements. They will also be responsible for proposing appropriate (and innovative) data analysis and visualization techniques. They will be required to train counterparts such as data scientists, Solution Architects, LOB users or any data consumers in analysis and visualization techniques, which make it easier for them to integrate and consume the data they need for their own use cases.

Experience, Skills & Knowledge

* Education and Experience · A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, data management, information systems, information science or a related quantitative field is required. · An advanced degree in computer science (MS), statistics, applied mathematics (Ph.D.), information science (MIS), data management, information systems, information science (postgraduation diploma or related) or a related quantitative field is preferred. · The ideal candidate will have a combination of analytical skills, data governance skills, IT skills and Retail industry knowledge with a technical or computer science degree. · At least 6 years or more of work experience in analytical or business intelligence disciplines including data analysis, visualization, integration, modeling, etc. · At least 1 year of experience working in cross-functional teams and collaborating with business stakeholders in Retail / Apparel Industry in support of a departmental and/or multi-departmental analytics initiative. · Deep Retail Industry knowledge or previous experience working in the business would be a plus. Technical Knowledge/Skills · Relevant experience with advanced analytics tools for Object-oriented/object function scripting using languages such as R, Python, Scala, or similar. · Relevant experience in working with data science teams in refining and optimizing data science and machine learning models and algorithms in the Retail Industry. · Relevant Experience with machine learning including regression, forecasting, time series, cluster analysis, classification. · Strong experience working with popular data discovery, analytics and BI software tools like MicroStrategy, Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI and others for semantic-layer-based data discovery. Certification in one more of these tools would be a plus. · Strong and relevant experience in Retail industry is a must. Experience in Fashion and Apparel industry would be ideal. Interpersonal Skills and Characteristics · Strong experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic business environment. · Required to be highly creative and collaborative. An ideal candidate would be expected to collaborate with both the business and IT teams to define the business problem, refine the requirements, and design and develop data deliverables accordingly. The successful candidate will also be required to have regular discussions with data consumers on optimally refining the data pipelines developed in nonproduction environments and deploying them in production. · Required to have the accessibility and ability to interface with, and gain the respect of, stakeholders at all levels and roles within the company. · Is a confident, energetic self-starter, with strong interpersonal skills. · Has good judgment, a sense of urgency and has demonstrated commitment to high standards of ethics, regulatory compliance, customer service and business integrity.