Director of Decision Science and Automation
Job Posting for Director of Decision Science and Automation at The Home Depot
Position Purpose:
The Director of Decision Science and Automation role requires critical thought leadership focused on developing analytical processes, tools, and strategy for driving improved performance throughout the supply chain. This role is responsible for managing a large organization that spans a wide-range of functional and technical skillsets by setting a compelling strategic vision for the organization. This role helps to direct large-scale analytical initiatives driving tangible results at meeting and exceeding the supply chain's specific financial targets. The role requires considerable analytical and technical skills while being able to effortlessly use complex analytical processes and then effectively describe those processes to executive audiences.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:
Environment:
The Director of Decision Science and Automation role requires critical thought leadership focused on developing analytical processes, tools, and strategy for driving improved performance throughout the supply chain. This role is responsible for managing a large organization that spans a wide-range of functional and technical skillsets by setting a compelling strategic vision for the organization. This role helps to direct large-scale analytical initiatives driving tangible results at meeting and exceeding the supply chain's specific financial targets. The role requires considerable analytical and technical skills while being able to effortlessly use complex analytical processes and then effectively describe those processes to executive audiences.
Major Tasks, Responsibilities & Key Accountabilities:
- 30% - Manages, develops, and maintains a large team dedicated to analytics projects throughout numerous elements of the supply chain.
- 30% - Develops, plans and implements department's goals and objectives; recommends and administers policies and procedures; coordinates department's activities with those of other THD and SC departments.
- 20% - Establishes short and long range capital plans and executes projects in a timely and fiscally responsible manner with utmost customer satisfaction.
- 20% - Provides sophisticated and scalable solutions when confronting challenging analytical and technical challenges.
- This position reports to Senior Director or Vice President.
- This position has 0-4 direct reports.
Environment:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
- Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.
Standard Minimum Qualifications:
Education Required:
Years of Relevant Work Experience:
Physical Requirements:
Additional Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Education Required:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a associate's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Years of Relevant Work Experience:
- 7 years
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Additional Qualifications:
- B.S. in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, or related quantitative field.
- Work experience with SQL Server, Teradata, Oracle, or comparable database systems.
- Expert knowledge in large scale information retrieval and statistical analysis.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Work experience in data mining, statistical analysis, and/or forecasting.
- A Master's degree in Analytics, Engineering, Math, Statistics, or related quantitative field.
- Advanced technical skills to retrieve, manipulate, analyze and interpret large amounts of data (>1 billion rows).
- Experience managing large analytical/technical teams (>10 associates).
- Prior direct experience working within a supply chain doing analytical work.
- Critical thinking skills to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions; ability to understand and foresee implications of new information for current and future problems solving.
- An unquenchable intellectual curiosity for getting at the underlying story being told within the data.
- A deep knowledge in scalable procedure development, data governance models, analytical tools, processes, and methodologies.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills. Ability to persuade, inform, and influence others based on findings. A track record of taking complex results and communicating them in an easily understood way.
- A clear and demonstrated ability of articulating a compelling vision for the use of analytics and technology within a Supply Chain organization.
- Unmatched ability at building and developing exceptionally talented analytical and technical teams by creating an environment that fosters associate development as a chief priority.
Director of Outreach, Partnership, and Advancement (CFRE Certified)
Fulton Science Academy Private School -
Alpharetta, GA
Post Doctoral Fellow - Machine Learning, Math Modeling and Decision Science - School of Nursing
Emory University -
Atlanta, GA
Experienced Home Automation / A/V Installation Technician
Interactive Automation -
Atlanta, GA
Salary.com Estimation for Director of Decision Science and Automation in Atlanta, GA
$107,948 to $140,137
If your compensation planning software is too rigid to deploy winning incentive strategies, it’s time to find an adaptable solution.
Compensation Planning
Enhance your organization's compensation strategy with salary data sets that HR and team managers can use to pay your staff right.
Surveys & Data Sets
Sign up to receive alerts about other jobs with skills like those required for the Director of Decision Science and Automation.
Click the checkbox next to the jobs that you are interested in.
-
BI Analytics/Reporting Tools Skill
-
Income Estimation: $62,876 - $83,485
-
Income Estimation: $63,853 - $74,407
-
-
Business Analytics Skill
-
Income Estimation: $113,836 - $156,217
-
Income Estimation: $121,042 - $160,242
-
This job has expired.
View Core, Job Family, and Industry Job Skills and Competency Data for more than 15,000 Job Titles
Skills Library
Job openings at The Home Depot
The Home Depot
Casper, WY
Full Time
The Home Depot
Sioux Falls, SD
Full Time
The Home Depot
Warwick, RI
Full Time
The Home Depot
North, RI
Full Time
Not the job you're looking for? Here are some other Director of Decision Science and Automation jobs in the Atlanta, GA area that may be a better fit.
We don't have any other Director of Decision Science and Automation jobs in the Atlanta, GA area right now.
Yellow Rocket Tech & Science Academy, Covington, GA
AR (Account Receivable) Collectors - Medical
Decision Wave, Alpharetta, GA