Senior Automation Manager
Job Summary
- Excellent organizational skill with a capacity to plan, prioritize, multi-task, and delegate effectively.
- Comfortable working with different teams from various countries of different time zones.
- Ability to manage a team of programmers/analysts to ensure balance of workload and sufficient support to the client-servicing teams. Involved in project management and coordination works.
- Be a people manager to set timely objectives, review objectively, motivate genuinely, and develop their knowledge/skill sets for better self and team advancement.
- Excellent interpersonal, influencing and negotiation skills with experience engaging and influencing key stakeholders to achieve optimal business outcomes.
- Ensure team members are consistently maintaining the Ipsos standard and delivering highest quality deliverables.
- Highly experience in designing and developing PowerPoint report automation program, automated checking process and analytical tools with the use of VBA, advanced Excel functions, and/or other programming languages.
- Experience in designing and developing interactive dashboards using Excel, Tableau, PowerBI and/or other cloud-based platforms.
- Experience in data integration of structured and unstructured data and perform data transformation for the purpose of statistical analysis.
- Strong interest and knowledge of emerging technology trends and applications in data analytics space.
- Involved in process-improvement initiatives (e.g. online platform enhancement, new automation tools) and provide necessary coaching to project members.
- Work with external stakeholders/ vendors on contract agreements and other initiatives.
- Work closely with external stakeholders to provide support on complex operational matters.
- Any ad-hoc duties/ projects as assigned.
Requirement for this position
- Preferably with at least 3-5 years of experience in dealing with data integration, data analytics/ statistics, and report automation
- Good understanding of data visualization and able to act as a subject-matter expert on the effective use of graphics/design in relation to data representation
- Proficient in Tableau or Power BI or other online dashboarding tools
- Good communication and negotiation skills. Ability to interact with all levels effectively
- Strong problem-solving skill. Ability to deal with difficult situations objectively
- Strong project management skill and multi-tasking ability
- Highly proficient in Microsoft Office, Advanced Excel, and VBA
- Extensive experience with SPSS is highly preferred
- Experience in relational database management systems and SQL
- Sound knowledge of web design (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and responsive design)
- A self-starter with strong sense of ownership
- Ability to manage and coach a team of young analysts and programmers