Data and Analytics Analyst 432 views

Note: By applying to this position you will have an opportunity to share your preferred working location for this position from the following: Chicago, IL, USA; Austin, TX, USA; Sunnyvale, CA, USA; New York, NY, USA; Atlanta, GA, USA

Minimum qualifications:

• • 7 years of experience in Procurement, supply chain, manufacturing, or operations.
  • Experience with data visualization tools or platforms (e.g. Dashboards, Tableau, etc.).
  • Experience in a language for statistical computing (R, Python, Stata, etc.).
  • Experience with Data Analytics, Data Modeling, and Data Management.

Preferred qualifications:

• • Master’s degree in Economics, Management, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or related field.
  • Experience translating analysis results into business recommendations.
  • Experience articulating business questions and using mathematical techniques to arrive at an answer using available data.
  • Ability to work independently with limited direction.

About The Job

Within Google Procurement Organization (GPO), you will support the Center of Excellence team who is responsible for developing, deploying, and ingraining best practices throughout the organization related to activities such as procurement process, systems, metrics, reporting, or training – building “infrastructure” for the team. You have strong influencing and customer service skills, are comfortable navigating ambiguity, collaborating with multiple teams, and building strong relationships with stakeholders.

Your work, whether it’s modeling business scenarios or tracking spends drivers, will be used by GPO to make strategic decisions around systems, tools, and supplier strategy. More specifically, you will be tasked with building forecasts, efficiency models, and reporting infrastructures. You will gather insights into spend and budget consumption patterns across teams, and synthesize and deliver them through presentations.

Responsibilities

• • Research new ways of modeling data to unlock actionable procurement insights and monitor performance indicators, highlighting trends, and analyzing causes of unexpected variance.
  • Make business recommendations with effective presentations of findings at multiple levels of stakeholders through visual displays of quantitative information.
  • Envision, develop, and deploy procurement analytics solutions to streamline processes that will lead to efficiency gains and improvement of key metrics.
  • Define, lead, and project manage by bringing together/interpreting internal and external data to produce insightful findings matched to business requirements.
  • Create dashboards and reports to surface data for different stakeholders and provide analytical decision-making support for key projects.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. They are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. They also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google’s EEO Policy and EEO is the Law.