• Manager - Business Insights and Data Strategy

    WESCO (Chicago, IL)


    As the Manager - Business Insights and Data Strategy, you will be responsible for synthesizing and forecasting complex customer and Wesco data into clear, actionable insights, leveraging advanced analytics to influence business outcomes. You will work closely with commercial executive leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to understand evolving business needs, identify customer opportunities, and drive data-informed strategies. You will translate predictive modeling, regression analysis, and data storytelling into business processes to optimize performance and achieve measurable outcomes.

    Responsibilities:

    + Develop data strategies that will drive growth, profitability, and competitive success for the business.

    + Partner with business leaders to drive execution by leveraging your team to identify KPIs, set measurable goals, and create management systems to deliver results.

    + Develop and implement new analytical strategies for customer insights; lead data modeling and insights development.

    + Manage customer data and analytical strategies to align with business intent; build business requirements and execute development strategy. Oversee multiple projects and programs concurrently.

    + Drive commercial insights and forecasting activities including primary category research, secondary analytics, short and long-term forecasts, and performance tracking.

    + Create and actively promote an environment of Associate development across the

    + Customer Data Management strategy team, while also driving team engagement.

    + Influence strategic direction by providing analytical evaluation and strategic thoughtfulness to key problems.

    + Guide the Customer Data strategy team to successfully consult on complex analytical problems and work tracks to ensure successful implementation of initiatives.

    + Present insights and recommendations to senior executives to achieve business objectives.

    Qualifications:

    + Bachelors Degree - Finance/Statistics/Information Systems/Mathematics required; Masters Degree preferred

    + 7 years experience in a strategic role focused on conducting large-scale data analysis to identify insights and support conclusions

    + 5+ years required of working with visualization tools (ex: Power BI and Tableau)

    + Critical thinking skills with demonstrated ability to turn data into information and insights to help solve complex problems which require independent judgment with no prescribed procedures

    + Excellent attention to detail, organization, supervisory and project management skills

    + Proficient with statistical/probabilistic calculations and concepts

    + Ability, willingness, and enthusiasm to train and manage a team to utilize insights and strategy

    + Ability to communicate complex topics to influence executive thinking and improve execution and innovation

    + 4+ years of experience working with data science/data modeling tools (ex: SAS, Altyrex, SPSS, DataRobot, etc.) preferred

    + 4+ years of experience working with business-to-business (B2B) wholesale distribution selling environments, including lead generation and sales pipelines preferred \#LI-AV1