Global Manager, Analytics

Job Overview

As the Global Manager, Analytics, based in Cambridge, MA, you will be responsible to manage research and development (R&D) projects. In this position you will act as the interface between our academic partners and business stakeholders, maximizing value generation from these engagements. The Global Manager leverages management and leadership capabilities to identify and manage risks, and to resolve issues to drive projects to successful completion.

R&D projects focus on intrinsically hard problems (e.g., ambiguous, with little to no existing structure, have significant business risk and/or potential for significant impact), and you will be required to resolve issues by utilizing strong influencing skills. You must be comfortable working in a fast paced, ever changing environment.

A successful candidate must demonstrate strong leadership skills, exceptional ability to influence, organizational expertise, strong verbal and written communication skills, and a passion for ensuring team members understand the why of changes and the ensuring “stickiness” of the change. You are self-motivated, solutions-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and innovative in developing best-in-class solutions.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Partner closely with academics (professors, researchers, and students) to develop solutions for business problems using data analytics
• Identify areas of opportunity for increased efficiency, drive transformation through routine plans and execution
• Track progress of various projects in the portfolio
• Have a rigorous approach to problem solving and analytics, as well as produce, interpret, and draw conclusions from data
• Lead others to drive ongoing program improvements based on user feedback and performance measurements
• Anticipate bottlenecks, provide escalation management, anticipate, and make tradeoffs, as well as balance business needs versus constraints
• Establish business priorities, identifying and communicating risks and mitigation plans in collaboration with stakeholders, developing and maintaining goals, milestones, and completion dates
• Have a combination of practical and intellectual skills, as well as ability to rapidly shift and adapt to different tasks that vary between complex analyses, hands-on projects, and project management

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree; Masters preferred
• Experience working with Project Management
• Experience in a relationship management position
• Proven success delivering a high volume of results on time with minimal direction
• Exceptional customer relationship skills including the ability to discover the business requirements and recommend alternative technical and business approaches.
• Lead implementation efforts to meet aggressive timelines with optimal solutions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to influence and negotiate comfortably and confident at presenting to all levels within the enterprise.

About Anheuser-Busch InBev

Anheuser-Busch InBev is a publicly traded company (Euronext: ABI) based in Leuven, Belgium, with secondary listings on the Mexico (MEXBOL: ANB) and South Africa (JSE: ANH) stock exchanges and with American Depositary Receipts on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BUD). Our Dream is to bring people together for a better world.

Beer, the original social network, has been bringing people together for thousands of years. We are committed to building great brands that stand the test of time and to brewing the best beers using the finest natural ingredients. Our diverse portfolio of well over 400 beer brands includes global brands Budweiser®, Corona® and Stella Artois®; multi-country brands Beck’s®, Castle®, Castle Lite®, Hoegaarden®, and Leffe®; and local champions such as Aguila®, Antarctica®, Bud Light®, Brahma®, Cass®, Chernigivske®, Cristal®, Harbin®, Jupiler®, Klinskoye®, Michelob Ultra®, Modelo Especial®, Quilmes®, Victoria®, Sedrin®, Sibirskaya Korona®, and Skol®. Our brewing heritage dates back more than 600 years, spanning continents and generations. From our European roots at the Den Hoorn brewery in Leuven, Belgium. To the pioneering spirit of the Anheuser & Co brewery in St. Louis, US. To the creation of the Castle Brewery in South Africa during the Johannesburg gold rush. To Bohemia, the first brewery in Brazil. Geographically diversified with a balanced exposure to developed and developing markets, we leverage the collective strengths of approximately 200,000 employees based in more than 50 countries worldwide. In 2015, on a combined pro forma basis, AB InBev realized 55.5 billion US dollar in revenues (excluding JVs and associates).

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