Lead Analyst Project Portfolio Analytics

Kenvue•Jersey City, NJ

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

At Kenvue, we realize the extraordinary power of everyday care. Built on over a century of heritage and rooted in science, we’re the house of iconic brands - including NEUTROGENA®, AVEENO®, TYLENOL®, LISTERINE®, JOHNSON’S® and BAND-AID® that you already know and love. Science is our passion; care is our talent. Our global team is ~ 22,000 brilliant people with a workplace culture where every voice matters, and every contribution is appreciated. We are passionate about insights, innovation and committed to delivering the best products to our customers. With expertise and empathy, being a Kenvuer means having the power to impact millions of people every day. We put people first, care fiercely, earn trust with science and solve with courage – and have brilliant opportunities waiting for you! Join us in shaping our future–and yours. As Lead Analyst, Global Project Portfolio Analytics you will play a key role in accelerating business outcomes by unlocking the value in our project and portfolio data through identifying, shaping and delivering business intelligence solutions for Kenvue’s project portfolio (Innovation, Product Renovation, Operations led projects). You will enable better project, portfolio and investment decisions through building and maintaining a globally common set of impactful reports, dashboards and advanced analytics, providing the right data to the right audience at the right time and ensuring our central analytic capabilities evolve to match the changing needs of the organization while maturing our analytics capabilities.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree is required
Minimum of 6 years of relevant business experience, preferably in the Consumer Goods Industry, is required
Minimum of 3 years of experience working with complex data sets, visual reporting development, including hands-on development of analytics dashboards in Excel VBA, Power BI, Alteryx, Tableau or similar platforms is required
Minimum of 3 years of Project Portfolio Management experience is required preferably in a large, global company with complex project portfolios.
Proven track record of identifying appropriate methods to collect, analyze and present impactful project portfolio data to a broad audience
Strong business and financial acumen, with an understanding of financial principles and project evaluation methods such as Net Sales, NPV, and Margin, and how to use this knowledge to make recommendations to achieve business goals is required.
Ability to operate in a complex environment and interact across multiple levels of organization, and lead discussions without line authority to build alignment across senior cross-functional partners is required.
Must be comfortable with ambiguity and ongoing organizational change.
Ability to act as a change agent and adapt quickly to changing business and organizational dynamics is required.
Must be customer focused, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to work collaboratively as part of a global team.

Nice To Haves

Minimum of 6 years of relevant business experience, preferably in the Consumer Goods Industry, is required
Experience with Enterprise Project and Portfolio management software such as Planisware, Planview, Project Server, Monday.com is preferred
Experience managing Software vendors (contracts, POs)
Experience translating business needs into user stories and minimal system requirements using Agile methodology is preferred.
Experience in building and deploying new Project Portfolio Management analytic capabilities is preferred.

Responsibilities

Builds and publishes globally harmonized (Single Source of Truth), visually pleasing, insightful reports, dashboards and analytics for partners at all levels in Kenvue in support of KPI tracking, portfolio decision making and business outcome delivery.
Proactively partners with Regional and Global Portfolio Managers, Project Managers, Functional leads, Business Leaders and Super Users to identify new data product opportunities and enhancements to existing data products to support changing business needs.
Drives customer engagement through user friendly cross-functionally appropriate visualizations. Continually looks for opportunities to improve the customer experience and increase adoption.
Expands portfolio analysis data capabilities through development of more advanced data analytics such as What-if and Scenario Planning.
Stays abreast of best practices and trends in project portfolio management analytics, approaches, and tools.
Maintains data products and process documentation.
Develops and conducts training for improvements and new data products.
Drives project data integrity and quality improvements through monitoring, compliance reporting and enforcement of minimal data and system standards.
Prioritizes & coordinates the work of the team through coaching and mentoring to build a work environment which enables Kenvue values, including the company’s commitment to equal employment opportunity and the value of a diverse work force.