Job description
Foods people love. Brands people trust. And a career that nourishes your future like no other.
If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.
We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.
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We're determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our ambitious culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn, advance your career, and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, it's about enriching you.
Position Summary
This role will be responsible for supporting advanced analytics initiatives for Nestle USA’s commercial-focused business (marketing, sales, pricing, etc.). The immediate focus of the Technical Program Manager will be to support high profile analytics initiatives currently in flight at NUSA, helping to connect business problems / opportunities to advanced analytics solutions that drive real value for the commercial business. This role will be a key connector of business stakeholders (commercial leaders, end users) and advanced analytics delivery practitioners (data scientists, engineers, digital leadership, IT, etc).
Responsibilities:
- Support agile delivery of advanced analytics opportunities in commercial business:
- Work with business stakeholders and technical delivery teams to determine program delivery timelines, milestones, and stewardship plans.
- Work with data engineers and data scientists to design and manage delivery of technical requirements for advanced analytics solutions.
- Assist execution of user acceptance testing, documenting processes, requirements, and enabling execution.
- Build business cases and results measurement programs and prepare briefings for senior leadership on program status.
- Steward program governance mechanisms, communications, and change management / adoption work tracks.
- Manage vendor resources engaged in delivery activities.
- Partner with commercial digital leadership to determine prioritization of advanced analytics projects in commercial program portfolio.
- Own documentation development and delivery (detailed requirements, project deliverables, solution support) and ensure consistent quality across portfolio.
- Assist in commercial business advanced analytics strategy development and socialization.
A few potential analytics areas you will be involved in are listed below:
- Recommendation Engines (e.g. Sales Recommendation Engine, Predictive Out of Stock).
- Predictive Scenario Planning (e.g. Future business performance, drivers and scenarios).
- Prescriptive Optimization (e.g. Trade Promotion Optimization, Commercial Spends Optimization, Network Optimization).
- Integrated Forecasting (e.g. Financial forecasting, Demand Forecasting).
- Intelligent Automation.
Your Team – Who You’ll Work With
- Work with Sr. Director Commercial Analytics to manage the delivery of innovative, cross-functional solutions which comprehensively address the asks of the business.
- Collaborate with Analytics, Data, and IT teams within the NUSA Digital & eComm Team, and business functions across our portfolio of analytics projects.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate Degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Business, or a similar field.
- Experience managing delivery of multiple, concurrent large scale (involving 10+ delivery FTEs) IT or analytics projects.
- Foundational knowledge of analytics techniques (descriptive/diagnostic to predictive/prescriptive).
- Basic understanding of advanced analytics model development, training, and testing preferred; experience managing development and deployment of advanced analytics solutions a plus.
- Working experience in commercial functions within consumer products preferred.
- Prior experience in business analyst and/or project management role(s) preferred.
- Experience working with agile teams to rapidly deploy analytics solutions preferred.
Skills & Competencies:
- Ability to analyze technical delivery projects, create long and short term delivery timelines and execution plans, and convey those plans to non-technical stakeholders.
- Strong knowledge of governance processes, stakeholder management, project management / agile delivery; experience with scrum and Azure DevOps a plus.
- Good facilitation and presentation skills, including training delivery.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, organizational and time-management abilities.
- High initiative, self-starter, and able to work with limited supervision.
Requisition ID: 233386
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To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.
The Nestlé Companies are an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer seeking diversity in qualified applicants for employment. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, gender, gender identity, age, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, perceived disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected status, as defined by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at accommodations@nestle.com or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.
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