D&T Analyst I – Business Intelligence

Job Description:

Position Title

D&T Analyst I – Business Intelligence

Function/Group

Digital and Technology

Location

Mumbai

Shift Timing

12PM-9PM

Role Reports to

Manager

Remote/Hybrid/in-Office

Hybrid

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. For more details check out

General Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.

With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check out

We advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.

JOB OVERVIEW

Function Overview

The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the provided Link.

Purpose of the role

The Digital and Technology team of General Mills India Centre is looking for a passionate and enthusiastic individual to contribute as a D&T Analyst I – Business Intelligence. This role will report into D&T 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 individual contributor role of D&T Analyst I – Business Intelligence, would be working with the business & technical team and would be responsible to build/standardize/enhance BI solutions. The person will collaborate and partner with various D&T teams to collectively deliver on the problem statement through optimum, standardized & user-friendly solution.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

Product Design, Development & Analytics:

• Design, develop, Maintain, and launch new Business Intelligence visualization & reporting solutions leveraging Tableau, Looker, DOMO, Advance Excel, etc.
• Implement enterprise Business Intelligence standards, best practices and approved BI techniques.
• Work alongside of peers and inculcate best practices (data prep tools, connected data approaches, data cataloguing etc. which can elevate the team's ability to tackle business and technical challenges
• Develop, Maintain, and implement standard processes, tools/solutions to ensure best practices are followed in the deliverables.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and work alongside peers to identify best approach for data validation, metric definition & Insight representation.
• Ability to research and find technical solutions via technical community collaboration.
• Follow Agile approach with various work streams during design, development, and signoffs from stakeholders to roll out reimagined reporting solutions across the org.
• Develop technical architectures and prototypes for dashboards, through coordination with product teams.
• Actively participate in various phases of the project including defining the core requirement, effort estimation, root-cause analysis, solutioning, development and deployment
• Apply thought leadership to deliver application of insights through absorbed domain/functional business acumen.
• Partner with technical teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem.
• Perform in-depth analysis to identify key business data elements & metrics to enable insights.

Strategy & Collaboration:

• Translate business challenges into impactful dashboard designs and technical builds.
• Partner along with product team with business stakeholders to understand project requirements and lead BI engagement, execution & delivery.
• Detail-oriented, a strong communicator, incredibly curious, and technically capable with a desire to discover and deliver data-driven business insights to fuel our data-driven culture and help us make informed business decisions.
• Collaborate with teams across functions to set internal benchmarks, develop critical metrics for new initiatives, and recommend best practices.
• Coordinate triage efforts, resolve user issues and system improvements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree from accredited university (Full Time) in Business Analytics or a related subject area

• 4+ years of total experience with 3+ years of relevant experience working with business stakeholders and designing analytical solutions.

• Extensive experience in creating interactive dashboards using Tableau (Intermediate) and other visualization tools (Basic) – Domo, Looker, Business Objects, Advance Excel, SQL, etc.

• Good communication skills, capable of translating business requests into technical requirements and articulating the pros and cons of different technologies, platforms, design and architectural options.

• Basic understanding of data and analytics tools and concepts, including ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing.

• Basic understanding of data extraction using Google Big Query, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Thought-driven leadership to successfully deliver scalable team management and business solutions.

• Takes the initiative to do the right thing - doesn't 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"