General Motors Hiring for Director, Applied Analytics, Growth Businesses at Cheyenne, Wyoming Full Time

Job Description

There’s never been a more exciting time to work at General Motors. To achieve our vision of a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion, we need people to join us who are passionate about creating safer, better and more sustainable ways for people to get around. This bold vision won’t happen overnight, but just as we transformed how the world moved in the last century, we are committed to transforming how we move today and in the future.

Why Work with Us

Our culture is focused on building inclusive teams, where differences and unique perspectives are embraced so you can contribute to your fullest potential as you pursue your career. Our locations feature a variety of work environments, including open work spaces and virtual connection platforms to inspire productivity and flexible collaboration. And we are proud to support our employees volunteer interests, and make it a priority to join together in efforts that give back to our communities.

Role Summary

The Director of Applied Analytics, Growth Businesses will lead an analytics engagement team, focused on identifying strategic opportunities to unlock business value through data and analytics. This role will work with the Strategy and Innovation team, EV and EVGRO teams, Information Technology, and other pillars to accelerate the education & adoption of data analytics and data science. This role will be responsible for partnering with the business teams to identify the opportunities with high returns on investments, and executing through their team the creation of re-usable data assets and frameworks to build out capabilities.

This role will be responsible for furthering our enterprise partnership on new growth opportunities, with a focus on insights that identify opportunities with high returns on investments, via hypothesis, experimentation, and proof of concepts. These areas are an emerging intersection for enterprise analytics; as such, this leader will focus on building relationships and problem framing to innovate and expand capabilities and solutions to unique business opportunities. This leader has balance – they strike the right cord of technical leadership and coaching, humbly elevating and advocating for their team – with an equilibrium of storytelling, influence and strategic focus for peers and leaders of supporting functions, enabling them to drive revenue growth. The role reports to the Director, Analytics Innovation.

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities

• The Director of Applied Analytics, Growth Businesses will champion a focus on driving hypothesis generation, insights, and experimentation, providing strategic thought leadership in shaping and executing analytics, data science, AI/ML and insights strategy for partner businesses.

• Lead the development of analytics capabilities, and the process to mature & scale capabilities across the business functions. Drive data opportunities in an unconstrained way leveraging first, second, and third party data, with a balance of qualitative and quantitative research, to drive through the gaps of emerging opportunities.

• Entrepreneurially identify new areas of focus, building high quality data products, strategic support, and competitive intelligence for energy and EV charging, through products that accentuate items like charge deferral, public charge health, industry forecasting, energy usage, and EV adoption, in support of GM’s 2030 goals.

• Senior level engagement to enable a shared vision and strategic collaboration for Global Innovation work; consulting on the right methods across data support, sharing best practices and learnings, across the value identification and realization phases.

• This is a global role focused on driving analytics partnership and strategy. This role is an ambassador for the greater Enterprise Data, Analytics and Insights team, and is focused on democratizing data and decisions. You will lead a team and be tasked with their growth and development through instruction, education, coaching and mentorship, amplifying the value and impact that analytics can make across GM.

Additional Job Description

Essential Qualifications / Requirements

• 12+ years’ experience in enterprise organizations where analytics, data, and insights filed key growth; Preferred experience leading these teams for a Fortune 500 company.

• 5+ years’ experience leading analytics teams in multinational/complex settings

• Bachelor’s Degree in Technology, Information Systems, or similar Mathematical background (required). MBA or Master in adjacent discipline (advantageous)

• Proven experience driving decisions with data, both through grit and automation, in strategic planning and innovation environments

• Highly collaborative, team player with an ability to lead large cross-functional teams towards common goals, strong culture awareness

• Strong digital analytics acumen, robust background in experimentation and measurement frameworks. Previous experience with EV car data, machine learning, predictive modeling and other advanced applications to manage data volume and insight generation velocity.

• Knowledge of the technology and government landscape as it relates to the future of data & analytics environment

• Ability to break down complex problems

• Ability to develop people, skills in coaching, mentoring, and teaching on the job

• Willingness & experience with leading change in an organization

• Main competencies

• Strategic Orientation

• Result Orientation

• Change Leadership

• Collaboration and Influencing

• Team Leadership

Remote: The position can be performed remotely from the US most of the time, but the employee may be asked to come on-site approximately four times per year.

Compensation: The expected base compensation for this role is : $225,000- $275,000 . Actual base compensation within the identified range will vary based on factors relevant to the position.

Bonus/Equity Potential: An incentive pay program offers payouts based on company performance, job level, and individual performance.

Benefits: GM offers a variety of health and wellbeing benefit programs. Benefit options include medical, dental, vision, Health Savings Account, Flexible Spending Accounts, retirement savings plan, sickness and accident benefits, life insurance, paid vacation & holidays.

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About GM

Our vision is a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions and Zero Congestion and we embrace the responsibility to lead the change that will make our world better, safer and more equitable for all.

Why Join Us

We aspire to be the most inclusive company in the world. We believe we all must make a choice every day – individually and collectively – to drive meaningful change through our words, our deeds and our culture. Our Work Appropriately philosophy supports our foundation of inclusion and provides employees the flexibility to work where they can have the greatest impact on achieving our goals, dependent on role needs. Every day, we want every employee, no matter their background, ethnicity, preferences, or location, to feel they belong to one General Motors team.

Diversity Information

General Motors is committed to being a workplace that is not only free of discrimination, but one that genuinely fosters inclusion and belonging. We strongly believe that workforce diversity creates an environment in which our employees can thrive and develop better products for our customers. We understand and embrace the variety through which people gain experiences whether through professional, personal, educational, or volunteer opportunities. GM is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We encourage interested candidates to review the key responsibilities and qualifications and apply for any positions that match your skills and capabilities.

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