What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Data Analyst position at Waters?
Overview
The Strategy & Operational Excellence team is on a mission to improve both our customer and employee experience by transforming how we plan, buy, make, and distribute products in Waters Global Operations. Our four pillars of focus include Strategy, Processes and Systems, Continuous Improvement, and Insights.
As a Senior Data Analyst, you will be working within the Insights pillar working cross-functionally within Operations focused on driving process and system improvements. This will require you to collaborate with colleagues from both operations and IT backgrounds to identify and prioritize process and systems improvement opportunities, make the changes, provide training, and monitor adoption. This will require you to draw on both your domain knowledge to help frame the narrative behind the numbers impacting Waters' global operations through fact-based story telling and data engineering. This role will report to a Director, GO Transformation Lead.
Responsibilities
- Work collaboratively within a cross-functional team and with functional leaders across multiple domains to develop a good understanding of current processes and systems used
- Assemble Waters Operations data into formats such as dashboards, scorecards, written reports, and presentations as determined appropriate through communication with stakeholders
- Derive insights through Operations data, provide context for findings, highlight confounding variables, and provide awareness into exceptions
- Engineer dataflows for broad analytics use
- Generate and distribute reports on a routine basis to internal stakeholders
- Measure adoption and adherence, execute interventions to drive increased adoption and adherence where necessary
- Keep abreast of developments in the data analysis industry, act as a thought leader by engaging colleagues in active dialogue regarding industry trends and recommendations and implement best practices
Qualifications
- BS/BSc in analytics, statistics or related field, Masters preferred
- Knowledge of data extraction and engineering methods, including SQL
- 7 years’ experience within Data Analysis field
- Experience with Power BI or other visualization toolsets
- Ability to derive insights using variable and categorical datasets
- Excellent communication skills translating data into business knowledge
- Experience working on cross-functional team
- Process discovery, design, and implementation experience
- Results oriented mindset, operates with high sense of urgency
- Proven track record of solving problems, breaking down barriers and delivering results ahead of schedule
Company Description
Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for more than 60 years. With more than 7,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.
Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.
Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.
