COMPANY PROFILE
Great Minds, a mission driven Public Benefit Corporation, brings teachers and scholars together to craft exemplary instructional materials that inspire joy in teaching and learning. Our English curriculum, Wit & Wisdom®, Eureka Math™ and PhD Science™, all support teachers as they take students beyond rote learning to provide a deeper, more complete understanding of the humanities, mathematics, and the sciences. Founded in 2007, Great Minds now employs more than 1,000 people.
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OUR MARKET POSITION
Great Minds’ Eureka Math is the most widely used curriculum in the history of American education. It enjoys an unrivaled 40+ net promoter score. Eureka and its sister products, Wit & Wisdom English and PhD Science, embrace much higher expectations for all students and all teachers. In a market dominated by scripted, procedural materials that drive expectations down, Great Minds produces curricula that celebrate knowledge, respect the craft of teaching, and acknowledge the true capabilities of students.
Job Purpose
Great Minds is looking for an entrepreneurial and strategic analytics leader to join our team as a Director, Strategy & Analytics working in our Go-To-Market Operations and Analytics Department. This department partners directly with leaders in Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success, managing the planning, operations, and analytics that power performance management and operational strategy. In this role, you will build new performance analytics capabilities to enable Sales and Marketing, while advancing the existing capabilities supporting Success. Reports to Head of Operations and Analytics across Sales, Success, Marketing.
The duties and responsibilities include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Manage and expand strategy & analytics function to assist leaders across Sales, Marketing, and Success to understand performance against KPIs and use data and insights to inform core business challenges and strategy
- Act as a leader to build a culture and establish a system of data-driven performance management at the team and individual levels to inform annual and day-to-day management of Sales, Marketing, and Success functions
- Build a system of modern, self-service analytics products and reporting tools, working closely with line managers and teams that manage source data systems across marketing, CRM, and fulfillment data systems
- Coordinate with the Enterprise Applications and Data Team to support the ongoing maintenance of analytics tools, reports, and dashboards
- Operate as a player-coach, managing the priorities and projects of team of analysts while independently conducting high-impact analyses
- Facilitate monthly and quarterly business reviews with Sales, Marketing, and Success leadership regarding performance against key divisional and individual KPIs
- Conduct complex analyses to support strategic decision making and planning (e.g., workforce capacity planning) throughout the year in collaboration with Sr. Leadership and turn into serviceable analytics tasks for a team of analysts
- Provide thought leadership and strategic thinking to translate business problems into analytical framework(s) and independently recommend actions to improve business performance
- Influence enterprise point-of-view on data product management, modern data pipelines, and advanced analytics and recommend projects to improve underlying infrastructure in collaboration with IT, Enterprise Applications, and Digital teams
- Support enterprise-wide projects to improve the quality and integrity of data across our core operational systems
- Build a sales and marketing analytics capability to support a high-growth sales engine
- Lead and mentor a team of analysts and support staff
