Decision Support Analyst

The purpose of the Decision Support Analyst is to drive business value to our internal and external stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

1. Business analytics
• Work closely with business stakeholders to drive business efficiency and enhancing business decisions by using data.
• Monitor and analyse real-time and historic data to identify trends, issues and/or opportunities.
• Identify opportunities for advanced analytics and automated decision solutions.
• Enhance the use of data, reports and analytical tools for decision making by educating and influencing stakeholders.

2. Decision Support Solutions
• Work closely with the business to identify opportunities for monitoring and decision support solutions.
• Gather requirements, design and implement decision support solutions.
• Work closely with the data team and information and analytics architect to implement data solutions in the data warehouse.
• Work with the advanced analytics team to develop appropriate predictive analytics solutions.
• Work with IT, business and data science to implement embedded automated decision solutions.

3. New business functionality
• Ensure data and analytics requirements are considered in new business solutions.
• Do impact assessments on changes to existing functionality.

4. Project Management
• Effective planning and prioritising of own work.
• Provide progress feedback to business stakeholders and line management.

5. Teamwork
• Contribute proactively to all aspects related to the optimal performance and wellbeing of the analytics team.

6. Stakeholder Management
• Effective internal and external stakeholder management within PPL.