Data Analytics Manager

TITLE: Data Analytics Manager

ABOUT US: Blu Dot (www.bludot.com), an award-winning designer and maker of modern home furnishings, is currently searching for a Data Analytics Manager to join our dynamic and values-driven company.

Company Purpose

Inspire a more creative way of living through good design that's good to everyone.

Core Values

- Good design is good. Good design should be reflected in everything we do.

- Keep it simple. Strive for economy in all that you do.

- Everyone is invited to our party. Treat every individual with respect & dignity.

- Our glass is half full. Focus on the positive.

- Be humble. We take nothing for granted.

- Turn it up to 11. Determine what is expected and do a little more.

- Stay curious. Try, learn, improve, repeat.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Lead cross-functional projects using advanced data modeling and analysis techniques to discover insights that will guide strategic decisions and uncover optimization opportunities.
• Recruit, train, develop and supervise analyst-level employees.
• Ensure accuracy of data and deliverables of reporting employees with comprehensive policies and processes.
• Examine, interpret, and report results of analytical initiatives to stakeholders in leadership, technology, sales, marketing, and product teams.
• Oversee the data/report requests process: tracking requests submitted, prioritization, approval, etc.
• Anticipate future demands of initiatives related to people, technology, budget and business within your department and design/implement solutions to meet these needs.
• Develop best practices for Data Engineering including use of ETL, Automated Testing, Code Repositories, Data Architecture, Data Modeling, Documentation, and Azure Export.
• Oversee integration from 3rd party data sets outside of Blu Dot; build data foundation to enable Blu Dot to become data centric.
• Maintain and enhance the company's data science toolkit including Alteryx and Tableau and open-source technologies such as R and Python.
• Aggregate Blu Dot's disparate data sources into internal Data Warehouse.
• Write sophisticated SQL queries to extract data from company's ERP (MS Dynamics GP) and build complex models or workflows.
• Visualize (dashboards, charts, infographics), analyze, and provide analytics to build insights to advance the business.
• Take un-analyzed data and transform it into rich, visual storytelling.
• Partner with business teams to improve the quality of existing data and bring additional data sources in line and automate manual processes.

IDEAL EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS*:

• Master's degree in Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Statistics or Math.
• 3 years of experience in analytics as a data analyst, data engineer or data scientist.
• Must have 3 years of experience in the following:
• Data Modeling and Data Architecture.
• Visual tools including Tableau, Alteryx.
• Open source coding, including R and Python.
• Automation of manual processes.
• Position is based out of Minneapolis, MN headquarters with a flexible working environment/schedule (up to 2 days remote)

*Everyone's welcome to our party! Blu Dot always welcomes candidates with unique and diverse backgrounds. Blu Dot is a member of E-Verify. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States.