Global Digital Intelligence Mgr, APS

Basic Function

This position is responsible for Global Management of the people and the strategy for delivering trusted “commercial” Digital Intelligence for execution of business strategy, aimed to maximize the profitability of APS, Advance Polymer Solutions business segment. Responsible for creating a step change in aptitude, speed, and accuracy of Business Intelligence, Decisions Processes, Reporting and Execution by: (1) creating a business self-service data analytics culture, (2) directing IT architecture and software applications for seamless data access, (3) creating user-friendly data applications and processes to solve business problems for the commercial organization.

Roles & Responsibilities

•    Global Digital Intelligence Manager & Business Partner – Lead the Global Digital Intelligence team to identify and evaluate commercial digital intelligence needs for business data analytics and create standardized solutions aligned across all regions globally. To drive a culture towards new analytical tools, applications, automation, mobility, and architecture to advance data analytic capabilities of the APS commercial organization. 
o    Engagement with Commercial Organizations – Directing engagement activities with the Commercial, Business, Sales, are related organizations to understand digital intelligence needs and deliver engagement programs to train and continuously elevate the data analytics culture of APS.  
o    Partner with Business Strategy & Finance Organization – Work in partnership with the Business Strategy and Finance Organizations to deliver Commercial, Business, Financial, and Sales, related digital intelligence to drive profitability of APS. 
o    Leverage LYB Digital Data Science Organization – Establish key working relationships with the LYB Digital Data Science organization to identify and implement key digital transformation initiatives for the APS commercial organization. 
o    Partner with IT Organization – Establish key working relationships with the LYB IT organization to ensure the APS commercial organization’s data analytics landscape of projects, initiatives, and future considerations are well known, identified, and resourced.  
•    Manage Digital Intelligence People / Organization – Manage direct reports in Europe, Asia, and US to “Deliver Trusted Digital Intelligence for Execution of APS Business Strategy”.
o    Lead – Engagement of Digital Intelligence team with global commercial organizations to create a digital data analytics culture to drive business decisions by centralizing analysis, tools, and information into a trusted center of excellence website . . . Integrating certified commercial datasets into fast user-friendly data analytic platforms to drive business strategy & execution. 

•    Technology Implementation:
o    Power BI and DAX Coding – Drive and prioritize the organizational demand for the implementation of sophisticated Power BI dashboards with advanced DAX coding to deliver commercial digital intelligence to support the execution of APS Business Strategy.
o    Microsoft Azure & Applications– Leverage full offering of Microsoft platforms to advance data processing, promote application utilization, and visualizations thru Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, etc to advance commercial data analytics and decision making. 
o    Data Source Management – Collective organizational management of APS commercial data sources. Pursue adding seamless access to new data sources to increase data integration and drive cross data-source analysis; creating new business insights and visualizations. 
o    Software/Infrastructure – Manage and drive software & infrastructure requirements for the organization by understanding the business needs, software development requirements, and working with IT & Digital Transformation team to enhance processing & analytical capabilities related to: visualization applications, advanced analytics capabilities, commercial data storage, metadata management, etc. 

Min. Qualifications

Education:
•    Bachelor’s degree required in a quantitative field (such as: Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, MIS). Master’s degree or Business emphasis preferred.

Work Experience & Qualifications: 
•    10-15 years or more of relevant experience:
o    Leadership and team management experience in multinational companies
o    Cross functional project management experience (certification on project management is valued)
o    Implementing business driven data analytic initiatives to strategically combine business needs with data analytics to solve business problems. 
o    Data source management, analytics modeling, and visualization experience. 
o    Change management orientation and project execution skills across multiple functions and organizations.  
o    Business analysts and/or commercial experience 
•    Power BI expertise with proficiency in DAX Coding (certification is valued)
•      Microsoft Azure applications & Power BI datasets.
•    Interpersonal skills necessary to work effectively as a team member and achieve results through the collaboration with other people both within and outside of the organization across regions, globally.

Preferred Qualifications

•    Experience working with commercial organizations to drive business performance through data analytic and applications. 
•    Development in the areas of data analytics, data management, automation, and/or application development to enhance visibility and drive business decisions.
•    Agile principles, project management, product development, business intelligence & reporting, solution architecture. 
•    Data Analytics background in Microsoft Azure, Power BI, SQL, Data Modeling, etc.

Competencies