Job Description

Lead Business Analyst Supply Chain Analytics (Data Labs-Landmarkgroup)

- The Landmark Group, founded in 1973, has a diverse portfolio of retail and hospitality brands. It has successfully grown into one of the largest and most successful retail conglomerates in the MENA region with an entrepreneurial culture focused on delivering exceptional value. The Group employs over 45,000 people, and operates over 1,600 outlets covering 22 million square feet across 19 countries in the Middle East, North Africa and India region.

- Built with love and loads of effort by many smart, talented, and passionate Landmarkers, Our goal is simple: to deliver high impact to all business functions and institutionalize data driven decision making.

- The Landmark Group is one of the leading retail and hospitality organizations in the Middle East and India. Its vast portfolio of successful businesses includes award-winning household brands like Lifestyle, Max, Splash and Home Centre.

- Culturally we are an open organization with No Cabin culture and with Lean Structure

- We believe Sports makes a person active and intelligent and we would be happy if you play some Table Tennis or pocket in some balls in Pool table

- An organization we are ranked as a Great place to work and we are proud of our Company values.

DLL - DataLabs @ LMG Introduction:

- Data Labs at Landmark was established in 2015 and is a key function to aid the different businesses of Landmark Group in both overall strategy and intelligent data driven decision making.

- The team has seen immense growth in the past years expanding from a team of 3 people in 2015 to 150+ members globally (Dubai & Bangalore). The team follows an on- shore/ off-shore model of delivery and consists of people with expertise in Retail Analytics & Application Development, solving problems not limited to Customer Value Management, Inventory Management, Assortment Planning, End to End Supply Chain & Pricing.

Job Title: Lead Business Analyst/ Manager (7-9 yrs.) - Supply Chain Analytics

Job Role:

- Define and drive analytical solutions roadmap for improving supply chain business decisions of all business units (BU) in Landmark Group (Gulf).

- Be hands-on in solution development along with leading 5+ member team to advise business stakeholders on a wide range of areas across varied retail supply chain functions- Vendor Management, Global Trade Management, Logistics Management, Warehouse Management, Last mile delivery, etc.

Job Responsibilities:

- Functional Strategy & Advisory: Work with Chief Supply Chain Officer, Corporate/Regional Supply Chain teams, supply planning teams of various brands on assessing supply chain strategy in alignment with business imperatives and growth strategy through data diagnostics and gap analysis.

- Solution Development: Understand business problems and their decision drivers from data & algorithm point of view. Build algorithms to solve business problems. Provide insights, recommendations, action planning and ROI to support management decisions. Ensure smooth operations & accuracy of deployed (or in development) analytical solutions by feature re-engineering, model management and fine-tuning of business rules/constraints.

- Project Management: Assign right team members to relevant project teams and ensure quality, timeliness, and accuracy of the output for projects in data mart development, data visualization dashboards, Ad-hoc analysis, analytical solutions, etc.

- Stakeholder Management & Analytics Translation: Manage stakeholder expectations and understand the business problem from their point of view. Translate business requirements to analytical solutions and analytical results to business recommendations. Present analytic findings & opportunities for improvement to senior management and summarize key findings, and aid in the dissemination of metrics throughout the organization.

- Practice Development & Process Optimization: Lead deployment of supply chain process improvements and best-in-class AI/ML applications in collaboration with product managers, data science and data engineering teams, and functional group members. Leverage functional and analytical expertise to design a solution to address on- going problems. Building industry knowledge and learn innovative

- Team Management: Define talent development plans of team members to match their career goals.

- Knowledge Management: Define knowledge management approach and monitor the team contributions. Contribute to development of training materials and share knowledge within team. Disseminate information on applications of variety of analytical techniques

Desired skills and experience:

- Solid understanding of Retail industry and processes with expert level in Supply Chain Analytics areas (Fulfillment Optimization, Dynamic Replenishment, Freight cost optimization, etc.)

- 7+ years of experience in analytics with at least 1-2 years in team member mentorship role. Experience in Data management projects in Data Lake technologies and Data visualization tools will be preferred

- Demonstrated people skills to develop strong connect with team members and personality to attract and manage top talent

- Knowledge of analytical techniques such as Time Series Analysis, Linear Regression, Linear & Integer Programming, Cluster Analysis, Decision Trees/Random Forest, etc. is required

- Understanding of programming languages such as Python, Pyspark and SQL with expert level knowledge in at least one.

- Knowledge of data technologies like Data Bricks, Data Lake, Data Factory, PowerBI, etc. in cloud platform like Azure will be preferred

- Good presentation skills (Storyboarding, public speaking and influencing commercial audience). Good communication and interpersonal Skills

- Attention to detail and ability to work in high pressure environment

- Strong business acumen and ability to translate data insights into meaningful business recommendations

- Master\'s degree in any quantitative discipline or MBA. Candidates from Statistics or Operations Research background will be preferred.

- Open to Travel (up to 20%) on need basis

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