Marketing Manager
In this position, you will supervise and help with the creation of advertising and sales campaigns for your employer. You may be assigned to one product or an entire product line or you may be responsible for a brand with many products under its umbrella.
Your responsibility is to weave input from various teams, such as research and sales. With your experience and knowledge in data analysis, you’ll be able to examine the data from previous campaigns to see what was the most successful. Your experience will be vital as you schedule the various steps in your marketing campaigns. Careful data analysis should yield successful campaign results.
Finance Manager
As a finance manager, your background in data analytics is particularly valuable. Because you develop and oversee departmental budgets, you’re likely going to spend time looking at previous budgets; your ability to mine data will help you to look through budgets of previous years and delve more deeply into how they were structured and what parts of these budgets worked and what didn’t. You’ll also ensure that all budgets meet required deadlines.
Once you have done this, you’ll track expenses and new budgets. If you see that a department’s budget has been exceeded, you’ll be able to figure out why and then make actionable suggestions for that department going forward.
Business Analytics Specialist
This role may also be known as a senior data analyst. They often work within a finance or marketing department, collating, and organizing data. They also analyze the data and report what they learn to the managers of other departments so they can make the best decision possible for their department and the company. At this level, the senior analyst may oversee a small team. They may also work as a go-between or liaison between the data analysis department and other areas of the company.
While a bachelor’s degree is the usual requirement, it’s becoming more and more common for businesses to require a master’s degree.
Management Consultant
A management consultant strives to help their employer improve areas of the company that may be lacking in productivity or even positive company image. It’s their job to find and identify ongoing problems; they work with data analysis to find these problems and any risks in order to help the company correct them.
In this role, proficiency with data analysis, computers, and math is mandatory. The consultant will be conducting high levels of research across the entire company. they may also create specialized forecasts to help predict the company outlook or find different ways of measuring company performance in various areas.
Business Intelligence Analyst
In this role, the business intelligence analyst specifies the actions a company has to take to improve collaboration between its departments. This professional should have a strong understanding of both professional and managerial skill sets. They will collaborate with several cross-departmental managers. For this reason, they need strong leadership abilities.
They should also be familiar with every area of business administration. Their presentation skills should be top-notch as their leadership and presentation skills will be used during frequent meetings, where organizational data and scenarios for future directions will be discussed.
