ABOUT SOTHEBY'S
Established in 1744, Sotheby’s promotes access and ownership of exceptional art and luxury objects through auctions, private sales and retail. Our deep expertise across 70 selling categories is supported by a leading technology platform and a global network of specialists spanning 40 countries. Selling categories include Contemporary Art, Modern and Impressionist Art, Old Masters, Chinese Works of Art, Jewelry, Watches, Wine and Spirits and Design, as well as collectible cars and real estate through RM Sotheby’s and Concierge. Sotheby’s Financial Services is a leading art lender and provides capital solutions for collectors around the world, having originated more than $12 billion in loans since its inception. Sotheby’s new global headquarters is now open at the iconic Breuer building at 945 Madison Avenue in New York City.
THE ROLE
Sotheby's Data & Analytics team is seeking a talented and motivated candidate to accelerate our efforts to drive trust and usage of data for better decision making across the company. A successful candidate will be both technically strong and business savvy, with the ability to manage multiple projects while working independently with product teams, business stakeholders and IT to accomplish project deliverables.
Responsibilities
- Understand business requirements from various stakeholders and plan a solution to address data requirements
- Collect, refine, and prepare data for analytics and visualization
- Develop, design, and maintain Tableau dashboards and analytics
- Define new KPIs and analyze them to form actionable recommendations
- Present to business leaders, in both ad-hoc forums and routine business review, to drive
strategic decision making. - Solve any data or performance issues related to workbooks and data sources
- Build user-friendly interactive dashboards and reports to empower non-technical users to
query data themselves. - Identify and implement new features that can improve operational efficiency
- Understand the ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) process to know how data is gathered,
cleaned, and updated from various sources.
Ideal Experience & Competencies
- Bachelor’s Degree (preferably in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer
Science, Finance, or Statistics) - 3+ years of relevant work experience using BI tools (e.g. Tableau, Sigma, PowerBI)
- Experience in all phases of the BI lifecycle in a Tableau environment, including dashboard
design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support. - Strong experience with data preparation for reporting (e.g., data profiling, data cleansing,
volume assessment and partitioning) including ETL and data modeling (relational and
dimensional) - Ability to move between high-level architectural review/design and the “roll up the sleeves”
level of providing oversight and execution for project delivery - Proficient in Excel, SQL, and Tableau
- Experience navigating Data Warehouses (e.g. Snowflake, BigQuery) to identify source tables
and columns - Excellent verbal and written communication skills; professional and responsive
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