Serves as a lead expert in the assessment of strategic performance metrics to support business initiatives by building partnerships with data analytic teams to ensure the translation of business requirements into analytic specifications; identifying appropriate data analysis tools and approach to assess business performance; determining suitable data gathering and analysis methods (e.g., process observation, hard data, etc.); defining data requirements and obtaining customer agreements, including customer requirements as appropriate; conducting advanced statistical analyses and/or testing to evaluate the effectiveness of business solutions; identifying and alleviating risks through data-driven analysis; and keeping current on, evaluating, and integrating data analytic trends and best practices to meet the demands of a continuously evolving analytic landscape. Serves as an expert consultant to ensure the alignment, buy-in, and coordination of diverse stakeholders to drive the implementation of strategic business initiatives and projects/programs across multiple functional tracks or complex workstreams by identifying and ensuring representation and inclusion of appropriate stakeholders; building rapport and partnerships with key stakeholder teams, third party vendors, and senior executive management; partnering with stakeholders to develop goals and set the prioritization of deliverables; leading the development of a menu of solutions for complex, competing, or ambiguous requests; driving discussions regarding the involvement of business processes (e.g.