Job Location: Minneapolis, MN
Job Description:
OVERVIEW
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
OVERVIEW
General Mills is seeking a Senior Manager, Data & Decision Science on the Strategic Revenue Management (SRM) Analytics team who will be leading a team responsible for developing models, improving model accuracy, conducting analysis, and applying statistical & mathematical techniques to support pricing and promotion optimization across our global portfolio (~$17B Gross Sales, 26 categories, thousands of products). In this role you will partner across the SRM team, Digital & Technology, Sales, Finance, e-commerce, Consumer Insights, and Operating Units (OUs) to leverage Data and Advanced Analytics to solve problems and implement key pricing initiatives.
We are looking for candidates with strong Data Science and business expertise and a passion to solve business and Revenue Optimization problems. You will get the opportunity to tackle complicated problems and create a new generation of products, tools and capability within an Agile environment. You will work on projects with high impact and value to the organization. Candidates will also have exposure to many functions within the company and globally to gain a unique perspective on the business from an SRM lens. A successful candidate will have the right blend of Revenue Management & Pricing expertise, problem solving skills, programming, formal training in Statistics/Applied Mathematics, business acumen and storytelling.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
- Manage the SRM Data & Decision Science team supporting on-going and new SRM initiatives
- Serve as the SME on modeling techniques, forecast accuracy, and predictive analytics
- Perform analysis to solve complex business and pricing problems
- Develop state-of-the-art Pricing Optimization and Decision-support models
- Contribute to existing SRM projects and initiatives
- Develop forecasts and build simulation models to predict the outcome of complex and real-world scenarios
- Understand both current uses and future state of promotional planning/optimization at General Mills, capture ongoing needs, and support integration with existing systems, data sets, reports
- Provide thought leadership and apply creative analytical solutions
- Possess R&D mindset by prototyping and carrying out tests
- Collaborate cross-functionally across SRM team, Digital & Technology, and other partners to define requirements for new tools and systems
- Serve as Lead on Test & Measurement initiatives
- Influence, educate, and train the organization to adopt new processes and systems
- Mix analytical insights with business knowledge to build solutions that work in the real world
- Analytics vendor management
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
- Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Physics, or related quantitative discipline
- At least 6 years of relevant hands-on experience in Data Science, Modeling, and Advanced Analytics
- 2 years of experience managing a team or leading a large-scale analytics project
- Expertise in problem-solving including experience/knowledge of statistical measurement, forecasting, and econometrics
- SQL mastery
- Expertise level programming in Python or R
- Working knowledge in statistical algorithms, predictive modeling techniques, supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms, Neural Networks, Regression, Classification, Bagging, and Boosting
- Experience in optimization techniques such as LP would be helpful
- End-to-end experience in data extraction, cleaning, manipulating, mining, analyzing, and storytelling
- Experience with Propensity Score, Selection Bias analysis, and A/B Testing
- Proficiency on Big Data technology
- Working knowledge of relational database and Cloud-based environment such as GCP
- Experience working with Hadoop, data visualization tools (Tableau), and data integration platforms (Alteryx, Talend)
- Knowledge of building and working with APIs
- Proven familiarity and understanding of development in Agile environment
- Experience working in matrix and non-hierarchical teams
- Exceptional Communication Skills – ability to clearly and simply communicate complex results to a wide range of audiences
- Learning agility – ability to work in white space to build new analytical processes and tools
- Familiarity with syndicated data sets (Nielsen/IRI), price and promotion models, trade system data, and financial data would be helpful
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Master’s Degree in a quantitative field
- Experience in Pricing and Revenue Management
Company Overview:
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.
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