20th Cent Fox gig - Director, Business Intelligence and Sales Analysis

[Hakim Bangash]

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Director, Business Intelligence and Sales Analysis

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

20th Century Fox Domestic Home Entertainment  -  Los Angeles, CA

 

Job Description

20th Century Fox Home Entertainment has an immediate need for a highly resourceful Director in the Global Research and Competitive Data Analysis department. You will be directly responsible for creating, analyzing, and delivering standardized and ad-hoc performance reports using industry-wide point-of-sale (POS) data from our data warehouse. Reports and analyses will deal with category level and title level performance in both domestic and international markets. You will also be responsible for collaborating with IT and 3^rd party vendors to enhance the accuracy and usability of our data warehouse to improve data reporting efficiencies. You are a self-starter with excellent analytical and communication skills who jumps in and gets the job done and prefers to work in a fast-paced, dynamic team environment.

 

Responsibilities/Activities:

• Responsible for compiling, analyzing, and delivering information/insights on Home Entertainment market trending, Title level sales performance, and Category reporting, for both Domestic and International markets using industry-wide point-of-sale (POS) data.
• Responsible for creating and analyzing key weekly, monthly, quarterly reports for Fox and competitive benchmarking.
• Drive data analysis of Fox distributed 3rd parties.
• Responsible for on-going data QA, cleaning, and validation to ensure data accuracy and integrity across 14+ markets.
• Responsible for the enhancing processing/cleaning methodology and for facilitating data and system accuracy
• Collaborate with IT to QA, identify, troubleshoot, and prioritize required changes in data warehouse.
• Work cross-functionally with Finance, Sales, Marketing, and Corporate teams on various analyses and projects requiring compilation and analysis of sales data.
• Prepare results summaries and reports in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Provide insightful analysis and recommendations, along with strategic direction based on results fr.om sales data
• Manage a team of 5-6 analysts

 

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years of analytical experience, ideally in the entertainment/media industry
• Proficiency in data analysis, modeling and reporting
• Prior work experience in sales analytics, forecasting, and competitive benchmarking
• Working knowledge of Business Objects tools (e.g., Microstrategy, Oracle Business Intelligence),
• Working knowledge of databases, data integration and business intelligence processes.
• Expert level knowledge in MS Excel 
• Knowledgeable in MS Access and/or SQL is a plus
• Proficient in drawing concise commercial conclusions out of data and to translate such findings into clear band simple language
• Experience in managing projects, including collaborating with internal teams (e.g., IT) on reporting requirements, data QA, and data warehouse enhancements
• Prefers to work in a fast-paced and dynamic team environment. Has the flexibility, agility, and desire to manage complex projects and work cross-functionally where project priorities are constantly shifting
• Self-starter mentality and a strong sense of urgency to provide both accurately and timely information that will benefit business operation
• Prior management experience preferred