D&T Analyst I – Business Intelligence

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 another and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.​

OVERVIEW

 The Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.   

The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Design, develop, Maintain, and launch new Business Intelligence visualization & reporting solutions leveraging Tableau, Looker 
• Implement enterprise Business Intelligence standards, best practices and approved BI techniques. 

• Work alongside of peers and inculcate best practices (data prep tools, connected data approaches, data cataloguing etc. which can elevate the team’s ability to tackle business and technical challenges 

• Develop, Maintain, and implement standard processes, tools/solutions to ensure best practices are followed in the deliverables. 

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and work alongside peers to identify best approach for data validation, metric definition & Insight representation. 

• Ability to research and find technical solutions via technical community collaboration. 

• Follow Agile approach with various work streams during design, development, and signoffs from stakeholders to roll out reimagined reporting solutions across the org..  

• Need to know working with Sprints, User Stories, Tasks, Epics, Features in Agile 

• Develop technical architectures and prototypes for dashboards, through coordination with product teams. 

• Actively participate in various phases of the project including defining the core requirement, effort estimation, root-cause analysis, solutioning, development and deployment  

• Apply thought leadership to deliver application of insights through absorbed domain/functional business acumen. 

• Partner with technical teams to troubleshoot technical and performance issues in the big data ecosystem. 

• Perform in-depth analysis to identify key business data elements & metrics to enable insights.

 Strategy & Collaboration:

• Translate business challenges into impactful dashboard designs and technical builds. 

• Partner along with product team with business stakeholders to understand project requirements and lead BI engagement, execution & delivery. 

• Detail-oriented, a strong communicator, incredibly curious, and technically capable with a desire to discover and deliver data-driven business insights to fuel our data-driven culture and help us make informed business decisions. 

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• Collaborate with teams across functions to set internal benchmarks, develop critical metrics for new initiatives, and recommend best practices. 

• Coordinate triage efforts, resolve user issues and system improvements.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited university (Full Time) in Business Analytics or a related subject area 

• 4+ years of total experience with 3+ years of relevant experience working with business stakeholders and designing analytical solutions. 

• Extensive experience in creating interactive dashboards using Tableau (Intermediate) and other visualization tools (Basic) – Looker, Business Objects, Advance Excel, SQL, etc. 

• Good communication skills, capable of translating business requests into technical requirements and articulating the pros and cons of different technologies, platforms, design and architectural options. 

• Basic understanding of data and analytics tools and concepts, including ETL, reporting tools, data governance, data warehousing. 

• Basic understanding of data extraction using Google Big Query, SQL Server, SAP BW or SAP HANA 

ELIGIBILITY

Applicants must meet minimum age qualifications in the country in which the job is located.