DandT Manager Business Intelligence

Position Title

D&T Manager - Business Intelligence

Function/Group

Digital and Technology

Country

India

Location:

Mumbai

Role Reports To

Manager

Geographical Scope of the Role - Location:

Global

Percentage Of Travel Required

0%

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

On-call required

Yes

Shift

Regular

About General Mills

We make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Häagen-Dazs, we’ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.

How We Make Our Food Is As Important As The Food We Make. Our Values Are Baked Into Our Legacy And Continue To Accelerate Us Into The Future As An Innovative Force For Good. General Mills Was Founded In 1866 When Cadwallader Washburn Boldly Bought The Largest Flour Mill West Of The Mississippi. That Pioneering Spirit Lives On Today Through Our Leadership Team Who Upholds a Vision Of Relentless Innovation While Being a Force For Good. The Awards And Recognition We’ve Received Showcase Our Commitment To Be a Force For Good

• World’s Most Admired Companies, Fortune 2022
• America’s Most Responsible Companies, Newsweek 2022
• 100 Best Corporate Citizens, 3BL 2021
• Best Places to Work for LGBTQ Equality, Human Rights Campaign 2022
• 100 Best Companies, Seramount 2021
• Diversity Best Practices Leading Inclusion Index, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Dads, Seramount 2021
• Best Companies for Multicultural Women, Seramount 2021
• Top 10 Companies for Executive Women, Seramount 2021
• Military Friendly Employer Bronze, VIQTORY 2021
• Best Place to Work, Canada, Greater Toronto, 2021
• Top 50 – India’s Best Workplaces for Women, 2021
• Top Workplaces in Brazil, 2021
• Asia’s Best Workplaces, 2021
  
  

Hungry For What’s Next

We exist to make food the world loves, and it shows. Our passion for people, doing good and creating delicious food has energized us for over 150 years. Breaking away from the pack is how we win, so we need your unique perspectives: your quirks, ‘crazy’ ideas, rigor and insatiable curiosity to make it happen. We want people who constantly experiment, embracing the new and bold, who keep pushing to turn ideas into reality, no matter how big or small. We’ve learned becoming the undisputed leader in food means continuously reshaping, reimagining and rebuilding— that only happens when you surround yourself with those who are hungry for what’s next.

For more details check out www.generalmills.com

General Mills India Centre

General Mills India Center (GIC) operates out of Mumbai and supports the global operations of General Mills. The center was established in 2005 and has grown in strength. Today, we are a vibrant and diverse team of over 1500 employees that come together to champion business services for the various global entities of General Mills in the areas of Business Operations, Analytics Consulting, Logistics, Finance, IT Development & Technology Consulting, Consumer & Market Intelligence, Sales Capabilities, Research & Development.

Digital and Technology team

Digital and Technology is the largest team in GIC, which focuses on understanding the latest and innovative trends in technology and leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies at General Mills. The team closely collaborates with global business teams to understand business models and assess where technology can be leveraged to bring efficiency and disruption. Be it AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain or Enterprise Architecture, GIC Digital and Technology has something for every technology enthusiast who wants to work here. Our MillsWorks initiative is where we bring agile@scale delivery model to life. Here, business and technology teams work cohesively in pods as ONE team, driven by a singular mission and focused on delivering value for the Company. Our employees, who work on large technology projects of strategic importance, are the Digital Transformation change agents.

Our service partnerships and employee engagement are centered on advancing equity and strengthening communities. We believe in an inclusive culture and trust in the power of people who have a passion for learning and growing with technology. We believe in “Work with Heart”. Work with Heart is focused on results, not facetime. If you are passionate about the latest in technology and want to make an impact on the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company, were waiting for you.

Job Overview

Role: D&T Manager (Business Intelligence) – Data Insights & Visualization

Location: Mumbai, Hybrid

The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute as an Manager. This role will report into Sr. Manager, DIV in India and functionally collaborate with the various verticals of General Mills.

The Data Insights & Visualization team caters to various reporting, visualization & insights initiatives to support and aid in decision making for various Operating Units and Business functions. The team operates in Agile manner and works in partnership with product teams to deliver turnkey BI solutions.

This working manager role of D&T Manager would lead BI Ideation with the business & technical team and would be responsible to build/standardize/enhance BI solutions and lead a team of 15-20 Analysts. The person will collaborate and partner with various D&T teams to collectively deliver on the problem statement through optimum, standardized & user-friendly solution.

Role Responsibilities

Team Management, Strategy & Collaboration:

• Lead consultant for enterprise, segment and functional reporting efforts
• Transform business processes by working across teams and functions to extract insights
• Consult and partner with leadership to develop sound training, test, communication and change management plans
• Organize and lead design, code & process review sessions to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and performance guidelines
• Manage reporting requirements collection; construct the conceptual model and design data flow processes
• Develop technical architectures and prototypes for initiatives through coordination with enterprise architect teams
• Partner with technical teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem
• Direct all communication of design and data architecture to development teams
• Organize and lead design reviews with stakeholders to ensure business needs are met
• Partner with development teams to bring cross-functional synergies into delivery
• Develop the technology and capability roadmap with senior business leaders
• Lead organizational skills development programs
• Manage the creation and alignment of client Service Level Agreements
• Partner with Solutions Development to bring new scalable solutions to business functions
• Coordinate triage efforts, resolve client issues and system improvements
• Responsible for achieving Service Excellence goals
• Reconcile all project work, feedback and identified opportunities with clients
• Evaluate, implement and oversee business deployment of emerging reporting tech
• Develop and ensure documentation of reporting best practices
• Partner with IT to be a business advocate for tools and data needs.
  
  

Product Design, Development & Analytics

• Strong technical skills and business acumen to help turn data into actionable insights.
• Deep understanding of user experience (UX), design and customer service principles
• Implementing solutions for optimizing and automating existing reporting leveraging tools such as Tableau, Looker, DOMO, Advance Excel, SQL, etc. Experience with tools and concepts related to data and analytics, such as dimensional modelling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing, structured and unstructured data
• Experience with design and implementation of ETL/ELT/Streaming processes
• Database development experience using Big Query, Hadoop, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA
• Develop technical architectures and prototypes for solutions (dashboards, portal pages, metrics, etc.) through coordination with enterprise architect teams.
• Partner with product teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in GCP.
• Lead design, code & process review sessions to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, and performance guidelines.
• Expertise to perform performance tuning standards on tableau & other BI tools
• Basic/Intermediate level ability to work on ETL tools (Google data prep, Etc.)
• Intermediate to Advanced SQL knowledge (Expertise in building/troubleshooting queries)
• Apply thought leadership to deliver application of insights through absorbed domain/functional business acumen.
• Expert level ability to develop visualization story using advance Business Intelligence tools that serve as a decision-making resource for business users.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business analytics, computer science, or a related subject area.
• 7+ years of relevant experience of working directly with business clients to design a solution.
• Extensive experience in creating interactive dashboards using Tableau (Expert) and other visualization tools (Basic) – Domo, Looker, Business Objects, Advance Excel, SQL, etc.
• Strong communication skills, capable of translating business requests into technical requirements and articulating the pros and cons of different technologies, platforms, design and architectural options.
• Proficient in data and analytics tools and concepts, including dimensional modelling, ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing and both structured and unstructured data.
• Basic understanding of data extraction using Google Big Query, Oracle, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA
• Proficient at influencing without authority, skilled at advising and negotiating with business leaders to develop high value solutions.
• Ability to research, plan, organize, lead, and implement new processes or technology
• Experience creating dashboards using Tableau or other similar visualization tools (Looker, PowerBI, Microstrategy, R Shiny, QlickSense, Business Objects, etc)
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Thought-driven leadership to successfully deliver scalable team management and business solutions.
• Knowledge of at least one other programming language such as Python is a plus.
• Excellent communicator – can articulate the pros and cons of various technologies, platforms and architectural options
• Takes the initiative to do the right thing - doesnt walk past a problem.
• Consultant mindset - able to challenge with courage and influence upwards and with peers.
• Agile learner - has passion and curiosity to learn new things and understand the "why".

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