Friday, June 17, 2011

[KITlist] CONTR: Marketing Business Analyst (San Jose, CA)

Please direct your responses to: gjose@us-buxton.com


POSITION – MARKETING DATA STRATEGIST
LOCATION – SAN JOSE, CA
DURATION – 6 MONTHS +
TYPE – CONTRACT

Job Responsibilities:
This will include:
• Consult with Global Events teams on how to assess effectiveness of event marketing programs.
• Manage and prioritize recurring and ad hoc reporting requests from event teams.
• Wrangle data from multiple sources including on-line data and data derived from multiple off-line sources to create integrated views that can be used to drive decision-making.
• Collect, validate and verify data. Follow-up on data discrepancies or integrity issues. And perform detailed comprehensive analysis.
• Use latitude to consider and decide which tools, solutions, practices, and or procedures to use.
• Design and build reports and dashboards.
• Effectively communicate findings and make use of data visualization techniques
• Devise new ways to capture and interpret event data.
• Support the data system requirements to develop department level scorecards
• Represent Global Events to key organizations within the Centralized Marketing Organization including Customer Intelligence, Market Intelligence and the Global Demand Center.

The position will also be responsible for:
• Understanding marketing and sales systems and represent Global Events in discussions around those systems. Work to drive system changes that will enhance the future ability of Global Events to track and analyze performance
• Partnering with business stakeholders in using market intelligence to shape event marketing and sales strategies

Requirements:
• Minimum 3 years experience in a Business Analyst/Data Analyst role.
• MBA and/or finance background is preferred.
• Must be experienced with inspecting, cleaning, transforming, mapping, and analyzing/modeling data with the goal of highlighting useful information to support decision-making.
• Experience with Business Objects and advanced level skill in Microsoft Excel.
• Skilled with manipulating large data sets.
• Ability to work in complex cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapid growth environment.
• Individual must be able to combine analytical skills with strong business knowledge.

TO APPLY – PLEASE SEND YOUR RESUME IN WORD FORMAT TO GJOSE@US-BUXTON.COM
SUBJECT HEADING – GJ_MBA

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