Lead, Business Insights - Remote

 

Auto req ID: 23530  
Title: Lead, Business Insights - Remote  
Job Function: Continuous Improvement and Quality  
Location: Remote 
Company: Harley-Davidson Motor Company  
Full or Part-Time: Full Time  
 

At Harley-Davidson, we are building more than machines. It’s our passion and commitment to continue the evolution of this storied brand, and heighten the desirability of the Harley-Davidson experience. To keep building our legend and leading our industry through innovation, evolution, and emotion we need the best and brightest talent. We stand for the timeless pursuit of adventure. Freedom for the soul. Are you ready to join us?

 

We maximize employee flexibility and well-being through a virtual mindset that supports our highly distributed, global workforce. We take an outcome-focused, people-centered approach to winning, including welcoming the best talent - wherever they may be.

 

This remote role is not tightly linked to a physical location and provides flexibility in where, when and how you accomplish your work. Remote employees are expected to have a dedicated, quiet and distraction-free work space and an internet connection that’s sufficient for completing their job remotely.

Job Summary

This position will support the Service organization with business insights and reporting relative to the global markets of Harley-Davidson product and services. The Lead Business Insights will analyze industry and consumer data through internal and external sources, playing a key role in helping implement data driven decisions into market-level business plans. This position will effectively analyze and distill the data into patterns, trends, and insights, develop clear and concise communications related to both insights and implications, and simplify complex ideas and present them well. The Lead Business Insights will be responsible for spearheading the integration of learning and presentation to all levels within the Service organization.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop business intelligence through a variety of disparate internal and external sources. Develop and manage consistent processes to gather and analyze information and applications across the organization. Define and drive operational and strategic shifts by identifying and leading hypotheses and exploring those hypotheses through analysis to discover the next level of opportunities and challenges. Proactively seek opportunities to strategically link and leverage external knowledge sources to create more complete/deeper intelligence or best practices.
• Deliver market intelligence plans that are reflective of current needs and anticipate future needs of the business teams. Identify knowledge gaps and hypotheses, prioritize and address key business issues. Support markets in developing and delivering market intelligence that contributes towards driving the market-level business plans.
• Lead the design and implementation of appropriate data-gathering techniques (qualitative/quantitative, formal/informal, primary/secondary) to obtain the required information.
• Effectively analyze and distill the information into patterns, trends, and insights. Work with both internal and external stakeholders throughout the execution phase, and manage the output process.
• Develop and implement new ways to make information easily accessible and automated throughout the Service organization within dashboards or other centralized hubs. 
• Interact with a variety of stakeholders via various communication mediums (written and/or verbal). This can include communicating results effectively to International leadership via presentations, and reports and participating in special cross-functional teams requiring analytic insights.
• Assists the executive with preparation for senior leadership meetings both internationally and in the U.S. as required.
• Innovate methodologies and processes to continuously improve processes and responsibilities. Keep abreast of new and changing technology and methods that enhance workgroup skills and those of their team.
   

Education Requirements

High School Diploma or Equivalent Required

Education Specifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Market Research or a related field is Preferred.

Experience Requirements

Required

 

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience
• Position requires a minimum of 8 years of business analysis experience with specific emphasis on business/marketing analytics and consumer, retail and business intelligence - preferably with consumer brands.
• Proven business acumen and demonstrated ability to conduct, manage and synthesize consumer, retail, market, a