WHAT DOES AN ANALYSIS MANAGER DO?
The Analysis Manager collaborates across functions, the Analysis Manager prioritizes and drives the completion of new reporting requirements, facilitating seamless data capture and integration with the Data Services team. They oversee the development and implementation of system and reporting solutions, ensuring accuracy and reliability while providing support to business partners for enhanced data understanding and decision-making. Additionally, they continuously evaluate and enhance report development processes for improved performance and scalability.
A Review of Professional Skills and Functions for Analysis Manager
1. Analysis Manager Duties
- MI Management: Responsibility and oversight of the UK-focused MI suite of deliverables including ad-hoc reports and monthly and weekly insights.
- Team Leadership: Manage a number of analysts to support the MI requirements of other Business Finance teams.
- Report Innovation: Creation, development, and continuous improvement of flash reports and cycles.
- Strategic Analysis: Responsibility and oversight of ad hoc analysis and providing financial information and insights into the business, making actionable recommendations, and influencing business decision making.
- Process Optimization: Responsible for continuous improvement and identifying process opportunities, particularly around improving templates, reports, and approaches in response to business feedback.
- Technology Utilization: Ensuring available technology is utilized in the visualization of data and MI reporting including support of the team to develop skills to support this.
- Strategy Implementation: Be responsible for implementing BCI’s results monitoring and reporting strategy.
- Data Oversight: Oversee analysis and reporting of BCI’s reach and results data.
- Analytical Development: Support the development and implementation of a revised analytical and reporting approach for farm results data.
- Quality Enhancement: Foster improvements in farm-level data quality.
2. Analysis Manager Details
- Project Management and Cross-functional Collaboration: Work cross-functionally to assess the needs of the business, prioritize projects, and drive new reporting requirements to completion.
- Data Integration and Warehousing Expertise: Work with the Data Services team as required for data integrations (Boomi) and data warehousing.
- Data Capture and Finance Support: Facilitate data capture on behalf of the Finance/Accounting organization.
- Requirements Gathering and Translation: Gather and translate business reporting requirements to technical requirements.
- Analysis & Stakeholder Communication: Deliver context analysis and suggestions to the user community during the requirement-gathering process.
- Workflow Analysis and System Implementation: Organize and direct workflow analysis to define and document requirements, design, develop, test, and implement system and reporting solutions.
- Quality Assurance Supervision: Supervise the quality assurance process.
- Issue Resolution and Business Partnership: Work with business partners to understand, determine root causes, triage, and resolve issues.
- Report Development and Data Visualization: Develop and/or review reports, extracts, dashboards, and other data visualization tools.
- Process Improvement and Performance Optimization: Review report development processes with the goal of improving performance, reliability, accuracy, and scalability.
- Support and Data Understanding Assistance: Assist business partners with basic reporting questions and understanding of the data.
3. Analysis Manager Responsibilities
- Cross-functional Coordination: Work cross-functionally to assess the needs of the business, prioritize projects, and drive new reporting requirements to completion.
- Data Integration: Work with the Data Services team as required for data integrations (Boomi) and data warehousing.
- Data Capture Facilitation: Facilitate data capture on behalf of the Finance/Accounting organization.
- Business Analysis: Gather and translate business reporting requirements to technical requirements.
- Context Analysis: Deliver context analysis and suggestions to the user community during the requirement-gathering process.
- Workflow Management: Organize and direct workflow analysis to define and document requirements, design, develop, test, and implement system and reporting solutions.
- Quality Assurance Supervision: Supervise the quality assurance process.
- Issue Resolution: Work with business partners to understand, determine root causes, triage, and resolve issues.
- Report Development: Develop and/or review reports, extracts, dashboards, and other data visualization tools.
- Process Improvement: Review report development processes with the goal of improving performance, reliability, accuracy, and scalability.
- Partner Support: Assist business partners with basic reporting questions and understanding of the data.
4. Analysis Manager Job Summary
- Project Management and Coaching: Manage team members to achieve project objectives and coach team members on solution design, process design, and project management tasks.
- Team Collaboration: Work with internal and external project team members to achieve expected project outcomes within the planned project schedule.
- Operational Diagnostics and Solution Design: Diagnose, analyze operational issues, and design solutions by observing and studying system function and performance results.
- Process Improvement Investigation: Investigate complaints and suggestions; interview process owners and operators; complete troubleshooting procedures; design operational process improvements.
- Business Requirements and Pilot Testing: Capture business requirements, document into the functional specification, and conduct pilot test work on the functions/tools before implementation.
- Cross-functional Coordination: Work closely with Operations, Customer Service, Quality Control, MIS, and Finance to scope, develop, and execute business improvement projects.
- Product Cost Management: Manage current and future products for cost-down proposals without affecting the customer experience in line with engineering, project management, production, and design teams by creating product-feature/function-based cost analysis.
- Cost Analysis and Benchmarking: Calculate target costs and set up cost benchmark data including cost driver analysis.
- Supply Chain Cost Evaluation: Analyze cost breakdowns and evaluate the complete supply chain for cost optimization.
- Cost Saving Process Development: Develop cost-saving process ideas on new projects.
- Process Design and Optimization: Design new processes in conjunction with the industrial engineering team to identify cost-effective process solutions.
5. Analysis Manager Accountabilities
- Supply Chain Correction: Identify inefficient and underloaded transport activities and trips and initiate supply chain and commercial actions to correct them.
- Vehicle Utilization Analysis: Analyse ways to increase vehicle utilization.
- Distribution Mode Definition: Define the optimum distribution mode of supply across Liquid Bulk, CryoEase, and Packaged Gases.
- Telemetry Strategy Optimization: Define optimal telemetry strategy for Liquid Bulk and CryoEase.
- Tank Sizing Policy Creation: Create the guiding policy for optimal Liquid Bulk tank sizing given customer density, tank maintenance and investment, and Liquid Bulk transport costs.
- Analytical Support Provision: Provide analytical support for Customer Engineering.
- Network Optimization: Optimise the PG Interdistrict network balancing transport and inventory costs as well as production costs and investments.
- Replenishment Strategy Efficiency: Define the most efficient agent replenishment strategy balancing transport and inventory holding costs as well as demand leveling.
- Delivery Zone Determination: Determine the delivery zones of PG depots and redistribution centers.
- Channel Allocation Assurance: Ensure that the PG end customers are allocated to the right channel (direct or agent).
- KPI Development: Develop a scorecard KPI hierarchy for Merchant distribution covering cost, service, quality, safety, and efficiency from General Manager down to Terminal Lead.
- KPI Utilization Drive: Drive the use of these KPIs in several review meetings.
- Terminal Meeting Ownership: Own the content of regular terminal optimization meetings to monitor distribution efficiency progress for all 3 product lines.
- Practice Participation: Participate in a Distribution Community of Practice covering European Merchant Gases and Global PG.
- Optimization Consultancy: Act as distribution optimization consultant for non-European PG business units through best practice sharing and leadership replication pilot projects.
6. Analysis Manager Functions
- Data Management and Analysis: Responsible for collecting, analyzing, and reporting sales-related data to assist the sales team and upper management in increasing national sales productivity.
- Performance Analytics: Analyze sales performance in comparison to goals and objectives, identifying areas of opportunity for organizational sales and profitability improvements.
- Reporting and Insights: Provide customized reporting and recommendations to support ongoing business decisions or initiatives.
- Data Visualization: Utilize business analytics platforms to create interactive, visual data dashboards and reporting.
- Process Optimization: Proactively identify inefficiencies and commit to process improvements using analytic philosophies.
- Predictive Analytics: Perform "what-if" analyses or predictive analytics when necessary to guide strategic decisions.
- Analytical Support: Enable management to make informed, data-based decisions by providing comprehensive business analyses and support.
- PLM Analysis: Conduct PLM business case analyses on an ongoing basis to assess product lifecycle management strategies.
- Financial Monitoring: Provide portfolio financial updates at least quarterly, ensuring stakeholders are informed of fiscal health.
- Business Reporting: Conduct monthly reporting and analysis of business results, including providing commentary and insights to senior BU management.
- Ad-hoc Analysis: Perform ad-hoc analyses, including product, margin, cost, and pricing analytics, to support specific queries or issues.
- System Improvements: Drive process and system improvements within CNBU and through partnerships with other business units to enhance operational efficiency.
7. Analysis Manager Job Description
- Sales Planning Management: Managing the sales planning process with a focus on assortment, gender, category, brands, region, etc.
- Trend Analysis: Historical trends analysis to identify dependencies beneficial for profitability or stock management.
- Sales and Stock Analysis: Ongoing analysis of sales and stock management performance with recommendations for corrective actions.
- Demand Forecasting: Managing the demand forecasting process and providing rolling forecast updates.
- Buyer Recommendations: Preparing recommendations for the buyer’s team.
- Planning Tools Improvement: Working on enhancing planning tools and reports.
- Team Management: Managing a team of planners and analysts.
- Mathematical Optimization: Maximizing the use of advanced mathematical distribution optimization techniques in collaboration with the IT Decision Science team.
- QUEST Enhancements: Identifying improvements for QUEST, LBShell, and Optimum Tank Sizing to aid distribution optimization.
- Transport Contracts Overview: Maintaining an updated overview of transport contracts for up-to-date transport cost standards.
- Supply Chain Planning: Determining the optimal supply chain plan for new PG offerings including filling sites, ID transport, and inventory locations.
- Customer Transport Analysis: Analyzing specific transport requirements of major Traded Chemicals customers.
- Distribution Strategy: Determining distribution strategies for entering new geographies.
- Depot Network Planning: Identifying the optimal number of sites and geographic locations for a regional PG depot network.
- Six Sigma Distribution: Applying the Six Sigma approach to optimize distribution processes and tools.