Senior Manager, Business Analytics (Americas)

 

Are you a strategic leader skilled in the areas of optimizing processes, business analytics, and pricing? Would you like to have a direct impact on the business strategy of a growing global company? 

 

As the world leader in access solutions, ASSA ABLOY helps to make our world a safer and more open place. In the role of Senior Manager, Business Analytics, you will conduct and oversee optimization, reporting, and analytics activity relating to the Americas business. This includes pricing, strategy, providing market intelligence insights, and working with business intelligence as well as a high level of engagement with the salesforce. The position will also help oversee major strategic project initiatives involving external consultants, legal teams, business presidents, and other high level business executives. 

 
Reporting to the Sr. Director of Commercial Excellence, you will be part of our world class finance team. This position will be based at our Americas group headquarters in New Haven, CT. 

 
What you would do as Senior Manager, Business Analytics (Americas) 

 

Your expertise would influence our Americas Strategy, as well as lead large scale cross functional projects that impact sales, pricing, brand initiatives, business intelligence, software development, new product launches, market intelligence, and finance. Additional responsibilities include: 
 

• Effectively engage with IT leadership to convey business requirements and obtain support to enable businesses to meet time-sensitive deadlines.  This includes heavy involvement in developing, testing, deploying, updating, checking data integrity, and training around BI Dashboards, AI/ML projects, CRM, CPQ, pricing optimization, and JDE software deployments/updates. 

• Drive analytical improvements while assisting in the optimization of tools and analytics to more effective applications and identifying AI/ML opportunities. 

• Perform complex statistical analytics. 

• Perform analytics around pricing effectiveness, sales effectiveness, customer metrics, collected data, and aspects impacting price realization (on time delivery, specifications, tariffs, economic impacts, etc.). 

• Work with various Americas businesses pricing leadership and their respective teams of pricing professionals in a competitive and time sensitive B2B quoting environment. 

• Perform various day to day pricing/quoting/monitoring functions, and other ad hoc duties as assigned. 

• Optimize quoting process and perform daily reviews of quoting to make sure quotes comply with governance and legal requirements. 

• Work with Americas businesses, sales, and specification teams at their sites to implement best practices and profitable revenue growth through data insights. 

• Create and oversee in person and online training, including development of training materials. 

• Perform and oversee various required financial and brand reporting, both ad-hoc and routine. 

• Provide weekly updates on progress of major projects and issues. 

 

What we are looking for 

 

Our ideal candidate will have at least 7-10 years of experience in roles of progressively increasing responsibilities within a pricing or finance related area with quantitatively heavy responsibilities. Additional qualifications include: 
 

• Degree in economics, pricing, finance, or business.  

• At least 7-10 years of working with strategy, training, marketing, finance, IT, and sales functions. 

• Has previously managed cross functional teams in highly matrixed work environments. 

• Track record of tangible financial successes managing large, impactful, companywide projects. 

• Experience in presenting to internal and external stakeholders at high levels of the organization. 

• Ability to travel internationally 10-40% depending on fluctuating business needs. 

 

Does this describe you?  

 

• Strong communicator that is comfortable presenting to large groups and business leaders and can answer questions on the spot. 

• Strong analytical skills, and can present complex analytical concepts and results, in a simple and understandable manner to business owners and executive teams. 

• Highly responsive with a sense of urgency, and the ability to prioritize both your day-to-day work and the teams day-to-day work, to meet your goals and timelines in keeping with ASSA ABLOY str