Sr. Manager, Analytics

The Position:

You absolutely love data (unstructured and structured), testing hypotheses, and arriving at data-driven recommendations that have an immediate impact on the business. You are passionate about communicating insights as much as you are about discovering them in the first place. You constantly ask questions about how to use analytics to improve the business. Is there a better way to identify responsive customer? Who is the best lender we should match to a customer? Are there new data sources out there that would help us make better decisions?

The Senior Manager of Analytics will play a core strategic role in the operation of the mortgage and consumer businesses at LendingTree. This intellectually demanding position leads a team that sits between Marketing, Sales, Product, and the General Managers (GMs) and is responsible for overall profit optimization and maximization of a business with a large-scale marketing budget.

In this role you will lead and mentor a small team of analysts and senior analysts who run analytics for Mortgage, Business Loans product lines. You will be a player/coach of a highly respected and impactful team – you will play in the data yourself, as well as coach the team

You can transform business problems and questions into analytical frameworks. You will ensure that our cross-functional leadership teams have the data, insights, and recommendations needed to make high-stakes decisions. You will sit at the table and form part of the decision-makers on these decisions as well.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of analytic professionals to develop analyses and analytical frameworks that inform business decisions and strategy development, providing guidance and credible challenge to analytic approaches and output.
• Create pacing guidelines
• Work exiting tickets using Tableau, SQL, Python and R
• Partner with GMs, Marketing, Sales and Product leadership to drive strategy across our verticals that brings data, insights and analytics to the forefront of decisions.
• Distill sophisticated data into easily consumable, significant, and timely insights.
• Use sophisticated analytics to optimize profit across our business verticals.
• Champion creative disruption without sacrificing results.
• Drive efficiencies and automation in analytics work, identifying process improvements, data quality enhancements and availability; work cross-functionally to drive improvements.
• Define when self-service analytics can and should empower other functions, allowing your team to focus on the heavy lifting.
• Create a team environment where you provide ongoing coaching and feedback, foster collaboration and innovation, recognize and develop employees, and ensure employees feel included, valued, and supported to do work that energizes them.
• Be proactive with asking strategic data questions, ensuring that the right questions are being answered with the appropriate level of rigor and that analyses lead to clear and actionable recommendations and impactful business changes.
• Apply your expertise in strategic analytics, data mining, and analytic storytelling to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our core products to maximize customer satisfaction, lead performance, business revenue, and product improvements/development.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Business, or a similar quantitative field.
• 7+ years experience in an analytical role performing ad hoc analysis; Management experience preferred
• Proficiency in Tableau, MySQL, R, Python, and Excel
• A track record of managing projects and people both directly and indirectly
• Superior problem-solving skills. You know how to rip apart difficult problems and construct elegant solutions.
• Operate with autonomy and guide the tasks of your team.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills
• Experience building profit and loss models
• Experience working with C-level executives

Preferred Skills and Experience:

• Exposure to the data warehouse Snowflake
• Exposure to DataRobot
• Experience working with digital marketing (PPC) and consumer websites. Transaction-based B2C sites preferred
• Managing projects using JIRA Kanban board
• Experience working in a consumer lending environment
• Close coordination and knowledge/data sharing with counterparts who share goals and responsibilities

COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save mo