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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