The India Analytics Center is responsible for delivering business insights and high impact analyses to the Product and Business teams within eBay. The team addresses strategic and operational questions facing the business including user behavior, performance measurement, and product and marketing efficiency.
We are currently looking for an Associate Analytics Manager to join us. This individual will operate as an individual contributor (IC) and partner with the cross functional teams to meet their analytic needs and conduct extensive analyses of eBays rich data, generating insights, and communicating those insights to the team to guide the project roadmap. In the process, this person will develop a deep understanding of eBay Marketplaces and site functionality, further strengthen their analytic, leadership, and presentation skills, and gain exposure to a wide variety of functional teams within eBay.
The role is data and analytically intensive. Successful candidates will offer a strategic perspective, sound business judgment, deep analytical capabilities, and a collaborative working style. They will possess strong intellectual curiosity, and a passion for achieving practical business impact. Skills in problem definition, rigorous analysis, and recommendation development will also be critical. Successful candidates will have exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative and integrity.
Additional requirements: Travel to US or Europe offices of eBay 1-2 times a year is required as part of the role. Some flexibility also required to attend telephone or video conference meetings in late evenings during some days of the week with global partners.
Primary Job Responsibilities
Independently execute analysis while becoming subject-matter expert via the many performance metrics that enable the B/U to track and drive their initiatives
Provide strong analytical insights, initiate and perform - decisive in actions
Build out fact base through deep and innovative analysis of eBays large and rich dataset
Evaluate existing business reporting and identify opportunities for improvement
Work cross-functionally to tie Analytics output to the work from other teams particularly search and site level data
Thoroughly understand and help architecture and improve guidelines for measuring progress to ensure teams are credited equitably and consistently
Continue to evaluate existing business reporting and identify opportunities for improvement and enable eBay Engagement product and business teams to make data-driven decisions
Proactively share analysis and insights with the rest of the team to promote ongoing learning and development
Track and report the KPIs to the leadership team and other stakeholders such as finance
Job Skills required:
Intellectual curiosity, passion for problem-solving, and comfort with ambiguity
A passion for understanding and serving the unique community of eBay
Exceptional business judgment and quantitative analytic ability and demonstrate assertive decision-making skills
Strong partnership-building skills - ability to work across multiple teams and lead analytics, finance, business and product-based initiatives
A proven track record of end to end analytics - problem definition, collating the required information, analyzing the results, synthesizing and presenting a compelling argument and influencing stakeholders to act
Skill and confidence in dealing with people at all levels across the organization
Must possess strong passion for achieving practical business impact
Demonstrate exceptional interpersonal skills, initiative, integrity as well as savvy business judgment and quantitative analytic ability
Superior communication skills and experience distilling and presenting complex quantitative analysis
Desired Qualifications:
BTech/BE/BS/BA degree (ideally in a quantitative field such in Engineering, Statistics, Applied Econometrics, Math, Physics, Computer Science, other related Core Sciences or equivalent) with 4+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance OR Master s degree in similar field/MBA and 2+ years of experience in analytics and exposure to varied functions within analytics/finance
Advanced Excel, PowerPoint skills and database query skills (e.g., Teradata SQL, SparkSQL); and an understanding of data warehouse architecture, impacting large domain/business unit results and partner relationships
Experience with Hadoop/Hive/Python/R/R Shiny and Tableau, ideally in web analytics or at a leading management consulting, financial services or marketing company.
At least 1-2 years of experience as direct business partner to mid-level or higher executives in within an organization, with proven results and exceptional quantitative and qualitative analytic impact.
Effective project leader who understands business problems and current business trends, responsible for improving financial and business performance.
Real-world problem-solving experience for business using Data Science and Machine Learning a plus.
Compensation/ Other Benefits
Compensation includes fixed salary, bonus plus other allowances.
Medical Insurance for self and family
Relocation and Settling in Allowance (if applicable)
Assistance in higher education/training, Food Coupons and other fringe benefits