What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior, Data & Analytics Analyst position at Bridgestone Americas?
Company Overview
Bridgestone Americas, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa. BSAM and BSEMEA are subsidiaries of Bridgestone Corporation, globally headquartered in Japan. Bridgestone and its subsidiaries develop, manufacture and market a wide range of Bridgestone, Firestone and associate brand products and solutions to address the needs of a broad range of customers and industries.
Position Summary
Business Intelligence (BI) Data Analysis work includes: Analyzing business intelligence data to inform business and product decisions. Blending historical data from available industry reports, public information, field reports or purchased sources as input to analyses. Identifying and analyzing industry/geographic trends and competitor market strategies and monitoring current/potential customer trends. Partners with other areas of the business (e.g., Marketing, Logistics, Customer Service, etc.) to model the outcome of implementing potential business strategies.
Responsibilities
- Collaborates with business unit leaders to understand business challenges and opportunities and develops data solutions that meet the business intelligence or insights needs.
- Creates and deploys business intelligence solutions (interactive analytic reports and dashboards) using visualization tools that lead to actionable insights.
- Analyzes data, forming conclusions and recommendations, producing insights that will help shape effective strategies to achieve business outcomes.
- Prepares and presents findings and recommendations to key stakeholders and management.
- Identifies critical data sources necessary to achieve desired business outcomes and collaborates with others across the organization to integrate data into a consistent and usable format.
- Collaborates with business leaders and key stakeholders to identify metrics and KPI’s that highlight business outcomes.
- Drives adoption of dashboards by providing consultation and training for end users.
- Identifies & resolves data quality issues discovered during the business intelligence and insights process.
- Create or refine existing data pipeline infrastructure for greater scalability, optimizing data delivery, and automating manual processes.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in an analytical area such as MIS, Finance, or Business Analytics and 2-5 years of experience in reporting, analytics or business insights
- Proficient in Tableau desktop or Alteryx or similar data blending tool
- Preferred experience in AWS Redshift/S3, SQL, and Python
- Good understanding of data environments and the ability to interface with them using the appropriate tools
- Excellent communication skills, including experience presenting to various levels of management
- Experience analyzing data to solve a wide variety of business problems
- Self-starter with strong time management and organizational skills
- Able to engage in consultative manner with management and other analysts when helping solve/manage content deliverables
- Able to work in ambiguous situations and respond flexibly to changing circumstances, priorities, and time constraints
- Team player with ability to collaborate with others
