Manager, Global Data & Analytics – Retail Analytics

Job Description

Manager, Global Data & Analytics | Levi Strauss & Co.

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at Levi Strauss & Co., located in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India. Levi Strauss & Co. is a company that values forging its own path and leaving the world better, embracing diversity as a strength. This role is central to empowering business teams across various functions by designing, building, and scaling enterprise analytics solutions. The individual will make a significant impact by driving data-driven decision-making and improving operational performance globally.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Team: Global Data organization
• Mission: Design, build, and scale enterprise analytics solutions that empower business teams across Merchandise Planning, Inventory Management, Operations, Supply Chain, and Merchandising.
• Tech Stack: Looker, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), BigQuery, SQL, Python

What You’ll Actually Do
• Analytics Solution Design: Lead the design and implementation of enterprise reporting and self-service analytics capabilities using Looker and Google Cloud Platform technologies.
• Technical Leadership: Serve as the technical lead for analytics initiatives across planning, inventory management, merchandising, and operations, establishing best practices for data modeling and dashboard governance.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Partner with business and technology stakeholders to translate business requirements into actionable analytics products and data solutions, enabling data-driven decision-making.
• Hands-On Development: Design, build, and maintain enterprise dashboards, scorecards, and reporting solutions, along with scalable semantic models and curated datasets using SQL and BigQuery.
• Team Development: Mentor and develop a team of analytics professionals, fostering a culture of technical excellence and innovation while actively contributing to solution delivery.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Analytics, Engineering, or a related quantitative discipline. This role is for a Manager leading global data and analytics initiatives.
• Experience: 7+ years in analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, or data science. Requires 2+ years of people leadership experience managing analytics or BI teams. Demonstrated experience building enterprise-scale analytics solutions on cloud data platforms and partnering with business and engineering teams is essential. Retail, supply chain, merchandising, planning, or inventory management experience is preferred.
• Skills: Advanced SQL for developing complex analytical solutions, strong hands-on experience with Google BigQuery and building dashboards/semantic models using Looker. Proficiency in Python for data analysis, automation, and advanced analytics. Expertise in designing data models, KPI frameworks, analytics data marts, and understanding data warehousing concepts and dimensional modeling. Strong problem-solving skills to translate complex business requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Bonus: Experience with LookML development, dbt, Dataiku, Alteryx, or similar analytics engineering tools. Background in developing predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions, knowledge of machine learning workflows, and experience supporting enterprise-wide analytics transformation initiatives.