Manager Data Analytics and Governance Dubai, United Arab Emirates Commercial

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we've chosen to do something incredible. We're totally transforming
our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to
deliver a smoke-free future. With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So,
wherever you join us, you'll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better,
brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly
different directions. If you're a forecaster and forward-thinker, you can make
a huge impact, creating sales strategies across all markets. But, here, your
innovation will do more than just improving sales strategies.

As a Manager Data Analytics & Governance, you will be embedding appropriate
cutting-edge data science strategy and techniques into business processes to
facilitate decision making and to generate actionable insights. Design and
maintain a data-first approach in the organization where utilization of
information is maximized, and significant efficiencies generated. To implement
and maintain a cutting-edge data architecture and storage model for enhanced
information utilization. To ensure data mapping and appropriate purchase
attribution in different commercial channels/programs

Your 'day to day'

• Create data analytics approach for ME region by performing data tagging/statistical analysis, data mapping from various data sources & link to create insights that can be used for commercial activity improvement. Develop data and business reporting strategy per market across the ME.


• Extending company's data with third party sources of information when needed and enhancing data collection procedures to include information that is relevant for building analytic systems


• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis together with selecting features, building, and optimizing data models with machine learning techniques.


• Align with business stakeholders on the business needs, decide on the appropriate KPIs to track the performance, present the project status and results in a business-friendly way. Ensure full data visibility and references to relevant benchmarks (OB/RF/OGSM)


• Work hand in hand with IT & other related parties to deploy the models into prod. environments and maintain the up & running models.


• Ensure data integration with Power BI to reflect channel/programs/promotions performance and to track their KPI's. In addition to that, integrate all external data points i.e. digital, research, LSP, NPS,…etc. within Power BI to have a holistic commercial approach on performance


• Lead the development of a cutting-edge data architecture merging descriptive to behavioural and structured to unstructured data sources.

Who we're looking for

• You have University degree in Industrial Engineering, Computer Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, MIS or other related quantitative fields. Master's degree would be a plus


• You have minimum ‎5 years of professional working experience with at least ‎2-‎3 years in Data Science with proven record.


• You have strong exploratory data analysis & visualization, applied statistics (hypothesis testing, causal inference, experimental design) and feature engineering skills


• Hands on experience in data preparation pipelines, preferably predictive data modelling with machine learning techniques


• Proficiency in using SQL & experience with NoSQL databases and Power BI and Looker Studio for data visualization. Knowledge of Snowflake would be an asset


• Strong business understanding and judgement


• Superb communication and data storytelling skills to both technical/ non-technical audience


• Strong coding & modelling experience in Python and Experience with distributed environments would be a plus

What we offer

Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a
sense of purpose and an appetite for progress. Join PMI and you too can:
* Seize the freedom to define your future and ours. We'll empower you to take risks, experiment and explore.
* Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone's contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world's best people and feel like you belong.
* Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business - our staggering size and scale provides endless opportunities to progress.
* Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.

To join our growing team…