Friday, December 16, 2011

[KITlist] CONTR: Marketing BA - Project Coordinator (San Jose, CA)

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

Position – BA Project Coordinator
Location – San Jose, CA
Duration – 6 months +

Job Responsibilities:
Business Analyst:
• Consult with Senior Event Engagement Managers (and clients) to assess effectiveness of event portfolios.
• Manage and prioritize recurring and ad hoc analytic requests.
• 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
• Understand marketing and sales systems and represent the team in discussions around those systems.
• Work to drive system changes that will enhance the future ability to track and analyze performance.

Near-term Project Coordinator:
• Create, manage, and communicate project work plans. Revise as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements.
• Capture and share critical project concepts, plans, process/data flow diagrams so that impacted parties can share this information, make informed decisions, and keep the project moving forward without having to revisit old discussions.
• Ensure project documents are complete, current, and stored appropriately.
• Manage the project schedule, and ensure milestones are met.
• Identify risks and dependencies.
• Facilitate team and internal client meetings effectively.
• Coordinate effort of global cross-functional teams.

Requirements:
• Minimum 3 years experience as a Business Analyst, preferably in a marketing organization.
• General knowledge of project management principles and successful completion of a process improvement project, a significant plus.
• Must be experienced with inspecting, cleaning, transforming, mapping, and analyzing/modeling data with the goal of highlighting useful information to support decision-making.
• Demonstrated competency in Microsoft Excel and common project management software and diagramming tools.
• Intellectual curiosity.
• Client service mentality.
• Ability to work on multiple tasks simultaneously.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Individual must be able to combine analytical skills with strong business knowledge.
• Knowledge of Cisco's marketplace is helpful
• Permanent Work Authorization in the U.S.

To Apply – Please send your resume in WORD to gjose@us-buxton.com
Subject Heading – GJ_BARS

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