Senior GIS Analyst

The Sr GIS Analyst will be part of the GIS pooled resources (center of excellence) within Ecolab. The role's primary functions will be to support and administer spatial-based business programs for territory applications within route, market, and sales and operations business planning for the Institutional Division. As the Lead GIS Analyst, you will apply various GIS analytical methods to solve complex problems and provide insights toward effective decision making and business results. Leads varied GIS projects and GIS components of strategic divisional technical projects across the Institutional business.

The GIS Center of Excellence (CoE) meets critical business needs by improving responsiveness, effectiveness, and efficiency, through innovative research, defined architectures, planning, and optimal use of GIS and other business transformation and GPS/telematics technology.

Your work will help to enable a consistent, coordinated, and proactive GIS-based planning approach by bringing new insights to business operations that increases field service and sales efficiency through the identification and application of spatial-based business intelligence insights. You will report to the Institutional GIS Manager within the GIS COE organization.

Position Details: The position is based out of our Saint Paul, MN office as a hybrid work opportunity.

What You Will Do:

• Lead GIS components of strategic divisional technical projects.

• Perform data mining and cleaning to convert disparate data into desired format, leverages digital map library in various file types and other various data sets to explain geographic trends and findings.

• Leverage GIS industry knowledge, analytical expertise, and existing core GPS and telematics to provide insights that enable the field team to optimize their service delivery.

• Interface directly with the Lead Developer, Sr. Developer, and GIS Analysts to support the automation and development of analytical GIS information and processes to help improve route and territory optimizations using multiple criteria, routing models, profiles, and perform other spatial analyses.

• Apply coding, geospatial, statistical, and modeling tools to uncover underlying opportunities.

• Layer internal and external topographical data to expose new business insights.

• Devise or modify procedures to solve complex GIS analysis and modeling routines to effect key decision making.

• Interface directly with field management and other business leaders to apply analytical GIS information and processes to help improve business development, route and territory optimizations using multiple criteria, routing models, profiles, and perform other spatial analyses.

• Produce maps showing the spatial distribution of various kinds of data and statistics.

• You will leverage GIS industry knowledge, analytical expertise, and existing core GPS and telematics to provide insights that enable the field team to optimize their service delivery.

• Service delivery optimization and related insights will lead to improved customer satisfaction and retention, employee retention, associate safety, work-life balance, and income opportunities.

• Provide and report on statistical findings and summary reporting of GIS analytics.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to provide GIS analysis to support their business needs.

• Support and develop project scopes and objectives through hands-on application, networking, research, and use of applicable technology.

• Coach business partners and users in understanding and adopting GIS information and analysis outputs.

• Apply coding, geospatial, statistical, and modeling tools to uncover underlying opportunities.

• Document methodologies used in the execution of requests and standard reporting.

• Develop and maintain a professional rapport with team members.

• Communicate effectively, both written and oral, with project team and management staff.

• Provide leadership to others through example and sharing of knowledge/skill.

• Participate in proactive team efforts to achieve departmental and company goals.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Business, Geography, Planning or related field.

• 5 years of experience working in a professional capacity regarding computer-based information analysis.

• 2 years of database experience applying analytics, data science, mathematics, and statistics to find insights in data.

• Experience working with SQL Server and relational databases, structuring queries.

• Familiarity with Esri ArcGIS Software.

• Ability to use Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to apply knowledge and develop maps, information, and reporting that support decision-making.

• Ability to meet project deadlines.

• Ability to perform assigned responsibilities with minimal supervision and develop advanced skills.

• Ability to compile, review and reconcile data for accuracy, completeness, and compliance.

• Ability to prioritize, organize and delegate assignments.

• Proficient in the use of spreadsheets, database, and word-processing applications.

• Good written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.

• No immigration sponsorship available for this position.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8 years of Esri ArcGIS experience or SQL enterprise experience using software products involving data development, manipulation, modeling, and analysis

• 2 years of Esri ArcGIS experience; including Network Analyst tools and functionality including Location-Allocation and VRP.

• 2 years of experience in fundamentals of Geocoding and Address Matching.

• Experience working with Python.

• Experience working with IDEs such as Visual Studio Code, Pycharm and Jupyter Notebook environment.

• Experience working within Software Development Life Cycle surrounding ITIL, DevOps, GitHub, Scrum, and Agile.

• Experience in business analysis and applied GIS toward territory & route design.

• Experience with ESRI ArcOnline/Enterprise/Portal for ArcGIS.

• Experience in Esri Enterprise Geodatabases.

• Experience with Cloud platforms including Microsoft Azure

• Experience in global mapping projects.

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