Analytics and Insights Manager

MinterEllison is Australia’s largest law firm and provides legal and consulting services.

Purpose is at our core. We create lasting impacts with our clients, our people and our communities. Our teams collaborate and deliver to our Purpose, and consistently work to embed our values into everyday actions. Clients rely on our expertise and insights. They value our responsive, creative and commercial approach. We are curious by nature, diverse in our disciplines and authentic in our relationships.

Diversity and inclusion is at the core of our Purpose and informs the way we work with each other, our clients and in the community. We know that when we bring together diversity of thinking, skills, experience, gender identity, backgrounds and orientations, we get better results.

**The Role**

Your responsibilities include:
**Data and Analytics Driven**:

- Summarise key insights to members of the executive team and to the firm, to drive better outcomes, support strategic ambitions and influence key decision making and change.
- Manage the planning, development, and delivery of key analytics programs from the conceptual stage through to execution and collation of results to drive business outcomes.
- Assist the function in becoming more efficient and effective through the use of data analytics, insights, and automation.

**Senior consulting mindset and approach**:

- Develop, engage and foster relationships with key stakeholders by understanding their needs, providing analytical recommendations and solutions for firm and client problems.
- Using a trusted advisor approach to educate and demonstrate the value of data, analytics and insights to drive uptake within the firm.
- Managing expectations by identifying, communicating and addressing project risks, assumptions and constraints; and further guiding stakeholders to a sustainable, best practice solution

**Team leadership and mentoring**:

- Identifying and providing solutions for ongoing skills needed within the team.
- Act as a thought leader, enabling the Analytics Centre of Excellence to deliver world class analytics.
- Mentor and support an engaged data community across the firm to provide development opportunities as well as advocates for data and analytics initiatives.

**BI Capability delivery and modernization**
- Partner with the data community across the firm to drive and deliver D&A initiatives and programs of work. Act as the SME on core data assets. E.g. Finance, Talent, CMG / Marketing
- Continuous review and optimization of the BI strategy/platform.
- Maturing self-service BI and AI/ML capabilities within the firm.
- Support and enablement of the data engineering and optimisation function.

**Program / project management**:

- Act as project lead for one or more key business initiatives, defining and tracking overall project plan and related milestones
- Collaborate with others to agree objectives and organise resources effectively to achieve desired outcomes
- Proactively identify challenges / opportunities and engage stakeholders (internal / external) to ensure impact.

**Vendor management**:

- Foster enduring relationships with trusted data and analytics vendors and partners.
- Support the Analytics lead to facilitate regular forum for vendor partners to come together and collaborate on common business problems and opportunities and foster innovation.
- Ensure alignment with the firm's processes and guidelines including procurement, policies, development guidelines.

**More About You**

We welcome applicants who have:

- 6+ years of experience within a data analytics function and in self-service reporting and visualisation
- (proven experience with BI platforms like Qlik, PowerBI, Tableau)
- Experience working in an agile environment, sound understanding of SDLC principles and managing BAU requests within this operating model
- Experience with cloud-based Data Warehouse and Data Lake environments (experience with AWS/Azure/GCP)
- Solid data architecture experience and ability to shape and evolve the data pipelines and future use cases of data to deliver better outcomes for the firm
- Proven career experience in data storytelling, communicating value with data.
- Data science/Machine learning/ Python or R experience within an Enterprise environment (highly preferred)
- Quantitative experience around interrogating large datasets with advanced proficiency in spreadsheet and database programs.

**Why MinterEllison**:
MinterEllison is recognised annually as a Top Attraction Firm by Lawyers Weekly as voted by our peers. We are a WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality in Australia and we hold Gold employer status with the Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI).

We make diversity in all its forms central to collaboration. This is why we offer hybrid working options to encourage balance, wellbeing and support for sustainable ways of working. We offer up to 20 weeks paid parental leave for the primary carer within the first 24 months follow