Principal Business Process Data Analyst

Principal Business Process Analyst

Do you have a passion for processing data to enable insights for organizations? Ecolab is placing significant strategic investment in enterprise data to align global business units in the digital economy. We need Business process leaders to achieve this long-term goal.

As a Principal Business Process Analyst, you will be a key member of Ecolab’s Enterprise Data program and tasked with providing a globally cloud-hosted repository of business and performance data from a variety of sources: SAP and other ERP systems, Master Data Management (MDM) systems, regional and international enterprise data stores, and internal solution support systems. This data is vital for enabling Ecolab’s various businesses to create insightful analytics for the monitoring and enhancement of business and customer outcomes for our Commercial Digital Solutions and One Customer Program. This position entails business and technical leadership transcending the operational enablement and digital strategies of Ecolab.

The role will lead the business analysis effort to capture, clarify, and manage business system requirements for the analytics environment. This role identifies, documents, and validates business system requirements, data, capabilities, and data products used by the technical team to provide functionality necessary to meet business objectives. This role will collaborate with other global technology teams to ensure alignment to enterprise data standards.

What’s in it For You:

• Become part of an enterprise tackling the most meaningful challenges of the 21st century: helping customers achieve clean water, safe food, efficient energy utilization, and positive environmental outcomes.
• Ability to make an impact and build a career with a company that is passionate about growth and committed to investing in and retaining employees.
• Support of an organization that believes it is vital to include and engage diverse people, perspectives, and ideas to achieve our best.

Position Details:

• Location: St. Paul, MN or Naperville, IL

What You Will Do:

• Work with our business stakeholders, product owners and downstream consumers to ensure the data roadmap is aligned to their goals and objectives.
• Lead/facilitate meetings with business and technical resources.
• Prepare presentations both containing business and/or technical topics.
• Business Process – work with the team to define and document complex business requirements with high level analysis and rapid prototyping.
• Provide data/business analysis support to the development team.
• Clarify priorities for the business and details of the deliverables (including rough estimation)
• Be a Self-Leader who demonstrates the ability to serve as a strong team member with solid communication skills and the ability to handle multiple priorities in a fast-paced, growth environment.
• Perform and deliver key thought leadership in areas of data engineering: modelling, integration, big data and cloud solution design, data warehousing, and data discovery.
• Engage architecture and operational teams to collaboratively deliver strategic roadmaps for enterprise and divisional data reporting and analytic solutions.
• Collaborate as data expert for assisting enterprise business platforms to integrate with global data solution strategy.
• Contribute to the creation of processes for improving data quality across the enterprise.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 8 years of professional work experience working in a Business or technical analytics role (e.g. business or data analyst) 3 years’ experience in a Data warehouse/analytics environment
• 3 years of experience working closely with business stakeholders
• Progressive experience in operational data delivery: demonstrate thought leadership, technical ownership, and solution design skills.
• Travel: Up to 10% of the time
• Hands-on experience with data engineering solutions in cloud environments, preferably Azure
• Desire to advance career in Business solution leadership in data engineering or architecture.
• Ability to work independently, establishing strategic objectives, project plans, and milestones.
• Excellent communication, analytical, facilitation, negotiation and organizational skills required.
• No immigration sponsorship available for this role

Preferred Qualifications:

• 10 years of project management and/or business analysis/requirements gathering and/or delivery experience
• 6 years’ experience writing clear and concise requirements and business communications.
• Cloud data warehouse implementation experience using Snowflake, Azure or other cloud data warehouse solutions.
• Experience with different data and scripting languages, such as SQL and Python
• Knowledge of security design, vulnerability analysis, and threat mitigation
• Ability to write simple SQL queries for data validation or investigation preferred.
• Basic SAP domain knowledge (commercial sales, customer, finance related data)

A trusted partner at nearly three million customer locations, Ecolab (ECL) is the global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services that protect people and vital resources. With annual sales of $15 billion and 49,000 associates, Ecolab delivers comprehensive solutions, data-driven insights and on-site service to promote safe food, maintain clean environments, optimize water and energy use, and improve operational efficiencies for customers in the food, healthcare, energy, hospitality and industrial markets in more than 170 countries around the world. For more Ecolab news and information, visit www.ecolab.com

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Benefits 

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Covid-19 Vaccine Notice

Due to local mandates and customer requirements, applicants for certain customer-facing positions must be fully vaccinated (which in some situations requires a booster if eligible), unless a religious or medical accommodation is requested by the applicant and approved by Ecolab. 

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Our Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion

At Ecolab, we believe the best teams are diverse and inclusive, and we are on a journey to create a workplace where every associate can grow and achieve their best. We are committed to fair and equal treatment of associates and applicants. We recruit, hire, promote, transfer and provide opportunities for advancement on the basis of individual qualifications and job performance. In all matters affecting employment, compensation, benefits, working conditions, and opportunities for advancement, we will not discriminate against any associate or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expressions, genetic information, marital status, age, disability, or status as a covered veteran.

In addition, we are committed to furthering the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) through Affirmative Action (AA). Our goal is to fully utilize minority, female, disabled and covered veteran individuals at all levels of the workforce. Ecolab is a place where you can grow your career, own your future and impact what matters.

We will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the New York City Fair Chance Act.