Data & Analytics Translator (Des Moines)
Principal Financial Group is seeking a Data & Analytics Translator to partner with business stakeholders and drive analytics initiatives. The role involves framing problems, guiding analytics solutions, and translating insights into decisions to add measurable business value.
Responsibilities
- Builds and maintains relationships with business stakeholders across the enterprise, developing an understanding of business goals, processes, and decision-making needs
- Facilitates discovery conversations to clarify business problems, success criteria, and data requirements for analytics initiatives
- Applies understanding of analytics and modeling approaches to recommend potential solutions and articulate trade-offs in business terms
- Translates analytical work and model outputs into stakeholder-relevant insights that connect clearly to business outcomes and actions
- Participates in analytics initiatives from ideation through delivery, ensuring scope, dependencies, and milestones are well defined and communicated
- Collaborates with data owners, technical teams, and governance partners to identify data gaps, understand data quality considerations, and manage project dependencies
- Communicates progress, risks, and changes clearly and consistently to all parties throughout the project lifecycle
- Documents project context, decisions, assumptions, data considerations, and communications to support continuity and reuse
- Supports stakeholder understanding of data sources, metrics, and insights; contributes to training, enablement, and adoption efforts as needed
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Technology, or a related field
- Working knowledge of analytics and modeling techniques and their use cases; ability to explain analytical approaches and results to non-technical audiences
- Experience facilitating conversations to identify problems, clarify requirements, and align stakeholders on analytics opportunities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; able to document decisions, assumptions, and insights clearly and effectively
- Familiarity with analytical tools such as SQL, Python, PowerBI, or similar, with emphasis on interpretation and application rather than model development
- 1+ years of experience in analytics, consulting, marketing, project management, or equivalent experience preferred
- 2+ years of experience in analytics, consulting, marketing, project management, or equivalent experience preferred
Benefits
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Pension Eligible
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