Sr Manager, GDM Business Analytics
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Job Description
Team
The Global Deal Management (GDM) team enables revenue growth by maximizing value for ServiceNow and our customers through effective proposal management, deal structuring, and subscription analytics. As part of the Customer Success Group, we are focused on providing an outstanding experience to our customers and partners and delivering simple, seamless digital processes to support that experience.
Role
We are looking for a truly unique leader to join our incredibly talented GDM Business Analytics team! If this describes you, apply today!
You are a team builder and a collaborator, working across multiple functions and personas to develop fact-based insights to solve problems. You are an architectural thinker by nature who can connect the processes that generate data to the systems that capture and store that data. You are a practitioner in analytics and data science who can guide and mentor your team in the fields of data engineering, data governance, data modeling and data visualization. You are an experienced business leader who is a master in the fine art of identifying key business questions that only analytics can solve and iteratively and passionately finding answers. You are a technical leader who has managed enterprise IT engagement models and has experience leveraging Agile to manage and deliver enterprise analytics capabilities. And finally, you are creative and have a pragmatic sense of urgency to get things done.
As the Senior Manager of GDM Business Analytics, you will work with the leadership team to establish a clear data and analytics strategy for the GDM organization and mobilize your team to achieve that vision. You will guide the strategy and lead execution to identify and report out on GDM’s key operational metrics, provide thought leadership on approaches that can help us anticipate changing business conditions and propose creative data-driven approaches to drive revenue uplift and operational excellence. You will provide analytics support to transformational and operational excellence projects that will deliver new capabilities that will scale our operation and enable us to seamlessly absorb rapid growth. You will own GDM’s IT engagement model and ensure a clean set of backlog and requirements are prioritized, tested and ready for delivery. You will partner with IT to deliver a modernized self-service analytics ecosystem for the GDM organization, allowing your team and other business professionals access to data and critical insights required to effectively run the business. And finally, you will establish a clear set of priorities for your team, balancing project work with technical skill set development.
We are looking for someone who is a strong Customer and Sales advocate and will invest deeply to understand ServiceNow’s GTM and Sales Processes to deliver better analytical solutions. We are looking for someone who can bring best practices in analytical product delivery to the team and can be both a coach and player. And finally, we are looking for someone with high energy, a strong work ethic and disciplined execution skills who is able to work seamlessly across Sales, Operations, IT and our Product team to deliver results.
What you get to do in this role:
· Develop GDM’s business data and analytics strategy to support our north star operating model and growth expectations
· Deliver GDM’s metrics strategy and framework to accurately report operational performance and provide data-based opportunities for revenue lift and productivity gains in QBR’s
· Development and delivery of a modernized self-service reporting environment for GDM, including environment refresh SLA’s and best practices, data governance strategy, data quality strategy, data model development and maintenance strategy
· Document GDM’s data architectures and ecosystems end to end and protect operational integrity; Govern architectural changes and control impact across transformation efforts; Define and drive to target state architecture.
· Provide analytical support (data analysis, modeling, visualization) to GDM transformational and operational excellence projects and activities, as both player and coach, including: CRM, CPQ, EMS, instrumentation and telemetry improvements, creation and improvements of operational reporting and dashboards, process mining, etc.
· Develop and implement best practices methodology for analytics development, testing and deployment (ie CRISP-DM or similar)
· Prioritize work load for a highly skilled analytical team and define and execute a technical skill set development plan; Carveout team capacity for research and development and rapid response projects
Qualifications
In order to be successful in this role, we need someone who has:
· 10+ years as an analytics practitioner across the full data science stack: data exploration, engineering, modeling, advanced analytics, visualization, testing, hardening, deployment, support
· 5+ years experience as a manager and leader of business or IT analytics teams
· 5+ years experience in SaaS subscription models and licensing, knowledge of Sales processes, deal management, product instrumentation and telemetry is required
· Proven experience in building, growing, retaining and leading high performing, diverse analytics teams
· Passionate, experienced, empathetic hands-on leader and tenacious problem solver
· Excellent written and verbal communication skills
· Bachelor degree in Data Science, Computer Science/Engineering, Business Analytics, Statistics, Informatics or other quantitative disciplines
· MBA or masters in other business fields highly desired
Additional Information
ServiceNow is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status or any other category protected by law.
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