Principal Insights Analyst

Responsibilities

Location Boston, MassachusettsUS Job ID JR-033224

Job Responsibilities:

• Managing project schedules, updating project documentation, determining which tasks to prioritize and ensure the timely completion of deliverables.


• Become a mentor to key data analytics, insights, and data steward personnel, ensure constant improvement in their professional skills, guiding in the execution of their duties.


• Standardizing, preparing, and delivering detailed reporting and analytics regarding Client Laboratory Assets bringing fiscal awareness and ensuring the Client meets critical cost targets.


• Drive the analysis, recommendations, and cost savings validation discussions with the client in alignment with agreed to customer cost savings goals.


• Support the compilation of Monthly and Quarterly Reporting per the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and Service Level Agreements (SLAs), in preparation for executive reviews.


• Analyze KPI and Asset level reporting to provide recommendations for improvement, highlighting opportunities and driving awareness of gaps as it relates to metrics, downtime, repair rates, and cost to service.


• Lead Root Cause Analysis efforts to mitigate asset failures and reduce program cost.


• Lead standardization of customer Asset list with respect to inconsistencies around nomenclature: Manufacturer - Model - Description, etc. as per the OneSource standardization tables.


• Identify specific business opportunities and influence shareholders to support projects, to lead projects, and to coordinate with other teams to produce better results and outcomes.


• Support broader OneSource innovation initiatives to improve lab optimization and reduce cost, as applicable.


• Build a thorough understanding of the Client(s), their business, processes, and instruments in order to meet their business goals.


• Demonstrate leadership acumen by collaborating with others; articulating ideas and viewpoints to senior management, peers and others; identifying and initiating projects; managing resources; driving the resolution of issues; and holding self and team accountable for results.


• Test reporting processes and workflows and recommend relevant improvements.


• Promote data-driven decision-making, consumer-driven analytics, and planning across the Business Insights Team.


• Manage customer relationships and expectations by establishing a communication process with the Program Manager.


• Provide and support the implementation of business solutions by building relationships and partnerships with key customer stakeholders.


• Builds a profile of data and analytics by providing clear stories and spreads them across the organization.


• Meet all customer deadlines.


• Champion growth of the OneSource business, acting as an ambassador of PerkinElmer and the PerkinElmer portfolio of services.

Nothing in this restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities of this job at any time

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business or Finance with 12 plus years of experience with Data Analytics, Financial Planning and Reporting


• Master's degree in business administration, Analytics, MIS, Finance, or Accounting


• Experience in tracking, analyzing, and reporting financial data in a customer facing setting is required.


• Project Management exposure and demonstrated success in Continuous Improvement


• Expertise in Microsoft Excel, Macros, Pivot Tables and complex formulas

Preferred Experience:

• Experience with Data Visualization Software, preferably Spotfire


• Proficient in use of SAP or similar ERP systems


• Knowledge of EAM CMMS desired


• Previous experience in a service organization with familiarity of the laboratory environment


• Excellent written and oral communication skills


• Proven operational ability to visualize, identify steps and implement processes


• Exhibits strong bias for action and a results orientation, tackling tough problems with firm deadlines, championing positive change


• Ability to travel as business requires

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position more than 50% of the time.


• Specific vision abilities required by this position include without limitation, the ability to observe details at close range (within a few feet of the computer screen), distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus in order to perform the essential service functions of this position.


• Occasionally operates office machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, and computer printer