Job Description

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Position Title
Sr. D&T Analyst - DnA, Connected Commerce
Function/Group
Digital and Technology
Location
Mumbai
Shift Timing
Regular
Role Reports to
Connected Commerce - Solution Manager
Remote/Hybrid/in-Office
Hybrid
ABOUT GENERAL MILLS
We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Haagen-Dazs, we've been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.
How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerate
us into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check out
General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.
With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out
We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.
JOB OVERVIEW
Function Overview
The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.
The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided
Purpose of the role
The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to developing a best-in-class data capability that helps drive performance of General Mills now and into the future. This is an exciting time to work in General Mills' DnA organization! We are partnering across Sales, SRM, and Global Commerce Experience teams to advance Data and Analytics capabilities and impact. We are seeking a leader to join the D&T India DnA Commercial Enterprise Data team to manage the MillsWorks and Data foundation team. This role will report into Connected Commerce Solution Manager in India and functionally collaborate with Global Connected Commerce team. It is an Individual contributor role. In this role, you will play the critical role of linking business objectives to core technological capabilities. This role is the development team's source for business logic, requirements, and technical analysis.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Collaborate with a Product Owner and Product Manager to shape the end-to-end product strategy and determine business value.
• Take up joint responsibility with the SM to build roadmaps for application and Data assets.
• Own product delivery: Ensure product development through completion (incl. addressing, prioritizing, and fixing bugs (QA), product/business owner signoff, and promotion to production).
• Communicate delays and articulate the downstream impact on tools and processes.
• Drive organized and effective business requirements to help build the product.
• Understand the functional scope, do the feasibility study, documentation, troubleshooting, support, and coordination with the team.
• Learn the demand planning process and SaaS platform to meet today's challenges of improving forecasting accuracy and reducing manual efforts.
• Deliver value-adding capabilities and enhancements by Design-Configure-Test-Deploy approach.
• Flawlessly balance Run, Improve and Transform business needs: prioritizing tickets; ensuring optimal system performance; managing vendor relationships; troubleshooting; root cause analysis; testing.
• Potential for opportunities to support across the spectrum of Integrated Business Planning.
• Dig into data analysis and explore data to determine what is needed and what we have to move the team forward.
• Utilize market and industry knowledge to translate user needs into user stories and acceptance criteria for their team.
• Serve as the day-to-day contact for the team on clarification of requirements and drive user stories.
• Stay in sync with the product owners on priorities and day-to-day decision-making.
• Exercise a strong decision-making mandate across the team as a proxy to the product owner.
• Prep and support the team on product demos - active participation in backlog grooming.

• Education - Full-time graduation from an accredited university (Mandatory- Note: This is the minimum education criteria which cannot be altered)
• To be able to articulate business requirements and bridge the gap with development teams and multiple stakeholders
• 3 years of experience in leading a project or sub-projects
• Strong experience in exploring and analyzing large data sets using Excel and SQL to understand patterns, structures, and definitions
• Hands-on experience working with SQL
• Strong understanding and implementation of Agile methodology
• Intermediate proficiency working with BI tools such as Tableau and Power BI
• Strong communication skills- verbal and written with the ability to present complex messages and trade-offs and tell a compelling story
• Excellent problem solver with the ability to lead the team to push the solution and progress
• Self-managing, results-oriented, and capable of leading multiple initiatives simultaneously through rigorous prioritization.

• Technologies - ETL, Google Cloud Platform, GCP tools like BigQuery & Compute Engine
• Agile Scrum master certification
• Understanding of Point of Sale, Syndicated and Consumer Data
• Business process optimization to influence art-of-possible.
• Effectively manage vendor relationships.