Strategic Initiatives Analytics Lead

• Leverage tools such as Tableau, SQL, Python, R, and DataRobot to answer business questions and optimize lead prediction and lead matching processes. 

• Distill complex data into easily understandable insights that drive significant and timely decision-making. 

• Utilize advanced analytics techniques to optimize profitability across multiple business verticals. 

• Drive creative disruption while maintaining a focus on achieving results. 

• Identify opportunities for driving efficiencies and automation in analytics work, including process improvements and data quality enhancements. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement these improvements. 

• Determine when self-service analytics can empower other functions, allowing your team to focus on high-impact analysis. 

• Proactively ask strategic data questions, ensuring rigorous analysis leads to actionable recommendations and impactful business changes. 

• Apply expertise in strategic analytics and data mining to understand customer behavior, maximize customer satisfaction, improve lead performance, drive business revenue, and enhance product development. 

 REQUIREMENTS: 

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Statistics, Business, or a similar quantitative field. 

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in an analytical role, performing ad hoc analyses. 

• Proficiency in Tableau, MySQL, R, Python, and Excel. 

• Demonstrated project management experience. 

• Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to develop elegant solutions for complex problems. 

• Ability to work autonomously and guide the tasks across multiple teams 

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

• Experience working with C-level executives. 

 PREFERRED SKILLS: 

• Exposure to the data warehouse Snowflake. 

• Experience with DataRobot. 

• Experience working with digital marketing (PPC) and consumer websites, preferably in transaction-based B2C sites. 

• Experience managing projects using JIRA Kanban board. 

• Previous experience in a consumer lending environment. 

• Close coordination and knowledge sharing with counterparts who share similar goals and responsibilities. 

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE). 

• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices. 

• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.  

The pay range for this position in Charlotte, NC is $95,000-145,000; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience.                                 

Incentive Compensation: Variable compensation, annual bonus

Benefits: Medical, dental, vision insurance and 401(k) matching

CULTURE 

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bent. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”).