Sr Manager - Business Analytics

Job description

We are Licious, a Bengaluru-based meat and seafood company founded in 2015 by foodies and friends, Abhay Hanjura and Vivek Gupta. We’re proud to be India’s most successful D2C food-tech brand, operating in 20 cities and delighting over 1.2 million customers per month with our de-licious fresh meat and seafood! Think you have what it takes to be the magic ingredient in the recipe that is Licious? Read on… What makes the role meaty? • Act as a trusted, neutral analytics partner to senior leaders, translating complex data into clear insights and actions that drive business outcomes. • Bring an independent, fact-based perspective to important business decisions and challenge assumptions when the data says otherwise. • Identify the biggest opportunities and problems across growth, customer, marketing, supply chain and operations. • Establish and maintain clear, standardized and unbiased business metrics across functions, building a strong culture of “one version of the truth.” • Work closely with functional leaders to identify growth levers, improve unit economics and unlock operational efficiencies. • Build self-serve analytical frameworks that enable teams to make faster, better decisions independently. • Take on hard, ambiguous problems that don't have obvious answers and conduct deep-dive diagnostics to identify the real drivers behind business performance. • Turn analysis into clear recommendations, drive alignment and stay close to execution until the impact is delivered. • Build an AI-first analytics function , using AI to improve the speed, depth and quality of analysis, automation, insight generation and problem solving. • Own the analytical data ecosystem in partnership with Data Platform/Data Engineering teams, ensuring reliable, scalable and high-quality data pipelines. • Build robust analytical frameworks, experimentation and measurement systems, and dashboards that enable the business to move faster. • Lead, coach and develop a high-performing team of BAs/SBAs, raising the bar on problem solving, analytical rigor, business understanding and ownership. • Build a team that proactively identifies problems and opportunities rather than waiting for business teams to ask for reports. We hope that you have… • 5+ years of experience in Business Analytics or similar roles. • Proven experience managing and developing an analytics team. • Strong problem-solving ability, with the ability to thrive in ambiguity and break complex problems into simple, actionable pieces. • High ownership and a strong bias for action—you don't stop at the insight; you drive the outcome. • An AI-first mindset , with demonstrated hands-on experience using AI/ML and AI tools to solve business problems or transform analytical workflows. • Strong commercial and business acumen, with an understanding of growth, customer behaviour, unit economics and operational levers. • Strong SQL/data analytics skills and an understanding of data pipelines and data platforms. • Experience working closely with Data Engineering/Data Platform teams and owning analytical data products/pipelines. • Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, particularly with senior leaders. • Strong people management and coaching skills. • High standards for data quality, metric integrity and attention to detail. • The ability to communicate complex analysis in a simple, sharp and decision-oriented manner. • Experience in a D2C, e-commerce, quick commerce, consumer internet or high-growth business is strongly preferred. • A track record of using data to understand not just what happened, but why it happened, what we should do about it, and staying accountable for making it happen.