Job Opportunity in the UAE: Head of Commercial Insights at Chalhoub Group 2021

Chalhoub Group is looking for a Head of Commercial Insights to join the team and work in the United Arab Emirates for 2021.

Responsibilities:

1. Partnering with senior business leaders to set analytics priorities across commercial functions.
2. Identifying new opportunities and business use cases to generate value.
3. Capturing business logic and developing solution prototypes for subsequent productionisation by the data product team.
4. Working with the core data team to operationalise and deliver impact with data products.
5. Increasing the productivity of commercial operations by harnessing data to simplify, improve UX, automate, reduce errors and accelerate time-to-value.
6. Generating actionable insights from commercial data and championing their use to drive value.
7. Predicting and forecasting potential outcomes, to support proactivity, such as eCommerce profitability.
8. Data-driven recommendations to optimise productivity, value and commercial success.
9. Leading multi-disciplinary analyst teams to deliver analytics solutions, at high tempo, for the highest impact tasks across the Group.
10. Taking ownership of the direction and development of commercial analyst roles across the group, including hiring, training and upskilling talent.
11. Leading by influence a disparate team of in-business commercial data analysts and ensuring they are healthy, happy and high-performing.
12. Championing the growth of trustworthy data critical to commercial success.
13. Acting as the commercial analytics thought leader for our brands and partners and staying ahead of the knowledge curve through training, on the job learning and targeted research.
14. Being a positive role model and ambassador for the broader data organisation and culture 

Qualifications:

1. Proven analytics heavyweight, capable of planning and executing organisation-wide initiatives and leading cultural change.
2. Ability to influence business priorities and focus on the impactful opportunities.
3. Executive presence to deal with demanding stakeholders, combined with talent to communicate with technical and non-technical audiences alike.
4. Leadership skills – vision, clarity, energy, emotional intelligence, enthusiasm, mentoring.
5. Willingness to do some foundational “heavy lifting” in automating reporting and dashboarding, to enable business users to self-serve, prior to accelerating value through advanced techniques.
6. Expertise in advanced analytics / machine learning concepts and techniques  (such as auction dynamics, recommendation engines) and their application to commercial use cases, particularly eCommerce.
7. Ability to interpret business questions and provide solutions through appropriate analytics models.
8. (Desirable) Experience of Google Cloud Platform, Google Big Query, Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager and Looker software.
9. The curiosity, hunger and resilience to deliver true transformational change. 

About Chalhoub Group:

Chalhoub Group is the leading partner for luxury across the Middle East and an expert in retail, distribution and communication. With a growing workforce of more than 12,000 people, and a network of over 650 retail stores, the Group's success is attributed to its highly skilled and dedicated teams.

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