Data Scientist

At American Express, our culture is built on a 175-year history of innovation, shared values and Leadership Behaviors, and an unwavering commitment to back our customers, communities, and colleagues. As part of Team Amex, you'll experience this powerful backing with comprehensive support for your holistic well-being and many opportunities to learn new skills, develop as a leader, and grow your career.

Here, your voice and ideas matter, your work makes an impact, and together, you will help us define the future of American Express.

Function Description:

Global Services (GS) brings together the companys external and internal servicing functions.

SABE

Sales and Business Enablement (SABE) is an internal servicing team within GSG providing sale performance reporting and business enablement support to the enterprise. The objective of the SABE Performance Reporting and Insights team is to ensure that Commercial and Merchant businesses have timely and accurate reporting, insights and forward-looking actions to help drive business performance. In addition to the reporting and insights, the team is also responsible for Sales Incentive Processing for GMNS sales colleagues.

Responsibilities:

The position provides a unique opportunity for an individual to build his skill across reporting, incentives, and platform management. Specifically, the position will be responsible for development & ongoing delivery of Performance Reporting & Insights Suite, Sales Incentive Processing, and management of incentive platform for Merchant Acquisition within Global Merchant & Network Services. This role places a focus on ability to think analytically and rationally, to synthesize complex data & deliver reporting, incentive calculation for sales colleagues in GMNS business and managing incentive and reporting platform.

• Deliver comprehensive performance reporting and Insights to help the leadership team and individuals evaluate and drive business performance
• Ensure strict adherence of control and compliance and related policies
• Partner with functional leaders, Strategic Business Partners and senior leaders to remove friction points, ensure data integrity for reporting and insights to fulfill business requirements and enable actions.
• Understand complex operational systems and business intelligence tools, sales
• Platforms for developing efficient, insightful products and offerings for customers
• Look for efficiencies through automation
• Devise process improvement tools and methodologies that will ensure flawless delivery exceeding customer expectations.
• Evolve reporting to meet key business priorities, engage early on with stakeholders, gain buy in for implementing proposed solutions.
• Leverage best practices internally and bring outside-in perspective to deliver best of breed reporting and insights
• Good communication skills and ability to work with stakeholders across different geographical locations

Critical Factors to Success (Outcome Driven):

Business Outcomes:

• Strong analytical skills and an innovative approach to solving both practical and theoretical problems and a tremendous will to win
• Demonstrated ability to provide insight and accurate judgment in addressing and resolving business challenges and opportunities
• Ability to interpret insights to derive strong requirements and prioritization based on data.
• Strong people relationship building, management and influencing skills
• Exceptional verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
• Engage with key stakeholders to drive initiatives to enhance sales experience.
• Automate and standardize reporting processes

Leadership Outcomes:

• Put enterprise thinking first, connect the roles agenda to enterprise priorities and balance the needs of customers, partners, colleagues & shareholders.
• Lead with an external perspective, challenge status quo and bring continuous innovation to our existing offerings
• Demonstrate learning agility, make decisions quickly and with the highest level of integrity
• Lead with a digital mindset and deliver the worlds best customer experiences every day

Minimum Qualifications

Past Experience

4 – 5 years of overall experience in reporting, data research, analysis, visualization tools and operations role involving efficiency gain examples across business units

Academic Background:

• Bachelors in Engineering, Economics. Statistics, commerce or related fields is strongly desired

Functional

• Understanding of sales business process
• Exposure to new BI tools with strong coding knowledge
• Analytics & reporting domain experience

Technical

• Analytics & Insights & Targeting
• Strong Python, SQL, Knowledge of Cloud platforms
• Basic Statistical Knowledge: Hive/ML techniques
• Advanced data manipulation & automation skills
• Data visualization

Preferred:

• Data Analytics, Automation experience

Platforms

• Big Data Platforms: Cornerstone and Lumi
• Visualization Platforms: Tableau, Power BI
• Advanced MS Office Suites (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access)
• Amex Platform Knowledge: CS/ CODL/ LUMI

Behavioral

Enterprise Leadership Behaviors

• Set The Agenda:Define What Winning Looks Like, Put Enterprise Thinking First, Lead with an External Perspective
• Bring Others With You:Build the Best Team, Seek & Provide Coaching Feedback, Make Collaboration Essential
• Do It The Right Way:Communicate Frequently, Candidly & Clearly, Make Decisions Quickly & Effectively, Live the Blue Box Values, Great Leadership Demands Courage

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations

Compliance Language

We back you with benefits that support your holistic well-being so you can be and deliver your best. This means caring for you and your loved ones' physical, financial, and mental health, as well as providing the flexibility you need to thrive personally and professionally:

• Competitive base salaries
• Bonus incentives
• Support for financial-well-being and retirement
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and disability benefits (depending on location)
• Flexible working model with hybrid, onsite or virtual arrangements depending on role and business need
• Generous paid parental leave policies (depending on your location)
• Free access to global on-site wellness centers staffed with nurses and doctors (depending on location)
• Free and confidential counseling support through our Healthy Minds program
• Career development and training opportunities

American Express is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, disability status, age, or any other status protected by law.

Offer of employment with American Express is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background verification check, subject to applicable laws and regulations.