Duties & Responsibilities

• Conduct in-depth analysis to identify the business trends and areas of opportunity.
• Provide insights through trend analysis for optimum decision making
• Provide recommendations to stakeholders for next course of action based on the analysis
• Continuously monitor data trends to optimize existing campaigns, new marketing channels, and other business opportunities to improve the digital experience
• Ensure high quality data is collected and maintain data integrity
• Monitor and maintain the dashboards to ensure the data is up to date through frequent communication with data owners
• Support and facilitate corporate-wide initiatives and strategic studies
• Automate manual processes using data visualization techniques

• Making large and/or complex data more accessible, understandable and usable
• Deliver the data in a useful and applealing way to stakeholders by combining multiple datasets and data sources
• Able to understand, articulate and narrate the story that is being uncovered by the analysis

• Support and maintain a comprehensive repository in preparation of various internal and external reports
• Conceptualization of data and knowledge sharing through effective presentation to senior management
• Support customized reports for MDEC management and key stakeholders
• Disseminate timely and accurate information to internal and external stakeholders
• Gather requirement from business users for dashboard implementation
• To coordinate & support the development of application systems or dashboard for internal and external stakeholders
• Build rapport with internal and external collaborators for continuous data sharing, analysis and visualisation

• Develop and maintain project management work plan schedules, budget management with realistic timeline; incorporating risk management & mitigation plans
• Support and facilitate the development of relevant SOP/guidelines
• Follow through and aligns risk and control processes into day to day responsibility; mitigate risk and escalate accordingly

• Participate in knowledge acquisition platforms in related areas
• Implement personal development plan as identified in training needs analysis

Qualifications

1. Bachelor’s degree (or Master’s Degree) in Data Science / Computer Science / Information Technology / Information Systems / Statistics / related fields

2. Data Science certification/qualifications, sound knowledge in Power BI, R/Python, SQL, data structure and architecture.

3. Approximately 5 years of work experience; the jobholder will have gained experience managing projects as the team leader with experience and knowledge of subject matters required for this position.

Competency Required

Soft Skills:

1. Business acumen, meticulous and attention to detail
2. Stakeholder management at all levels
3. Facilitation and coordination skills
4. Issues identification and resolution
5. Communication competencies which includes effective oral and writing skills and presentation skills tailored to target audience at all levels

Technical Skills / Knowledge Specialization:

1. Project management knowledge (e.g. P3O, PRINCE2 PMP/PMBoK)
2. Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suites – not limited to Ms Excel, PowerPoint & Word
3. Understanding of MDEC’s roles and initiatives
4. Attention to details in analyzing data and ability to reconstruct structured & unstructured data to develop reports by providing value-add information and context.
5. Ability to keep up and follow digital economy global trends
6. Strategic planning frameworks and models