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:Position Title D&T Analyst II xe2x80x93 Portfolio CapabilitiesFunction/GroupDigital and TechnologyLocationMumbaiShift TimingGeneralRole Reports toSenior Manager xe2x80x93 Transformation and Portfolio ManagementRemote/Hybrid/in-OfficeHybridABOUT GENERAL MILLSWe make food the world loves: 100 brands. In 100 countries. Across six continents. With iconic brands like Cheerios, Pillsbury, Betty Crocker, Nature Valley, and Hxc3xa4agen-Dazs, wexe2x80x99ve been serving up food the world loves for 155 years (and counting). Each of our brands has a unique story to tell.How we make our food is as important as the food we make. Our values are baked into our legacy and continue to accelerateus into the future as an innovative force for good. General Mills was founded in 1866 when Cadwallader Washburn boldly bought the largest flour mill west of the Mississippi. That pioneering spirit lives on today through our leadership team who upholds a vision of relentless innovation while being a force for good. For more details check outGeneral Mills India Center (GIC) is our global capability center in Mumbai that works as an extension of our global organization delivering business value, service excellence and growth, while standing for good for our planet and people.With our team of 1800+ professionals, we deliver superior value across the areas of Supply chain (SC) , Digital & Technology (D&T) Innovation, Technology & Quality (ITQ), Consumer and Market Intelligence (CMI), Sales Strategy & Intelligence (SSI) , Global Shared Services (GSS) , Finance Shared Services (FSS) and Human Resources Shared Services (HRSS).For more details check outWe advocate for advancing equity and inclusion to create more equitable workplaces and a better tomorrow.JOB OVERVIEWFunction OverviewThe Digital and Technology team at General Mills stands as the largest and foremost unit, dedicated to exploring the latest trends and innovations in technology while leading the adoption of cutting-edge technologies across the organization. Collaborating closely with global business teams, the focus is on understanding business models and identifying opportunities to leverage technology for increased efficiency and disruption. The team's expertise spans a wide range of areas, including AI/ML, Data Science, IoT, NLP, Cloud, Infrastructure, RPA and Automation, Digital Transformation, Cyber Security, Blockchain, SAP S4 HANA and Enterprise Architecture. The MillsWorks initiative embodies an agile@scale delivery model, where business and technology teams operate cohesively in pods with a unified mission to deliver value for the company. Employees working on significant technology projects are recognized as Digital Transformation change agents.The team places a strong emphasis on service partnerships and employee engagement with a commitment to advancing equity and supporting communities. In fostering an inclusive culture, the team values individuals passionate about learning and growing with technology, exemplified by the "Work with Heart" philosophy, emphasizing results over facetime. Those intrigued by the prospect of contributing to the digital transformation journey of a Fortune 500 company are encouraged to explore more details about the function through the providedPurpose of the roleThe Digital and Technology (D&T) team at General Mills executes a portfolio of projects and strategic outcomes leveraging Technology.Our Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM) group within D&T facilitates and stewards its portfolio planning process and management leveraging appropriate technology and tool chains. This team is on a journey to implement standards, build new capabilities to support our evolving processes, increase trust in the data, and create data transparency to enable Portfolio Performance ManagementWe are looking for an experienced, analytical, techno-functional professional to contribute to the Global Digital Transformation initiative at General Mills.The D&T Analyst II xe2x80x93 Portfolio Capabilities is an India based individual contributor role, reporting within the SPM team in India, with an active partnership/collaboration with the global Portfolio Management Capabilities team within SPM. This team works closely with D&T Leaders to facilitate the portfolio planning processes and helps each of them manage their sub-portfolios. This Analyst will participate in many components of active planning process - some of which include ensuring best practices are being followed, analysing data for insights, partnering with stakeholders to answer questions and resolve issues. This role will work closely with various software applications that support these processes and performance management dashboards to identify and implement enhancements. As the D&T organization undertakes transformation, this role will also be called upon to help establish a scalable, modern, secure & efficient portfolio platform to deliver on key portfolio initiatives.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Perform analytical, techno-functional roles, undertaking hands-on, functional and technical work.
• Provide effective project and task estimation
• Collaborate with various enterprise teams as a part of the product team (Application Developers, Analysts, Tech Leads, Project Managers, Data Engineers, Cloud and Infra Engineering, etc)
• Analyze business requirements, evaluate considerations (security, scalability, limits), and deliver solutions through executing design, configuration, integration, testing, deployment & documentation
• Ensure portfolio platform principles & governance best practices are being followed
• Ensure platform is compliant with GMI Security and Technology Standards including access controls, vulnerability, and code development.
• Active participant in product team agile ceremonies to assist in planning for new features & execution of product team backlog & project needs
• Collaborate with product team to identify & utilize meaningful new features of future portfolio platform
• Lead and conduct portfolio platform upgrade releases, including alignment, reviews, implementation and testing
• Challenge ideas and opinions to avoid pitfalls and inefficient solutions
• Consult, advise and provide subject matter expertise as required
• Provide centralized data capabilities and insights to stakeholders through data harmonization and analysis.
• Develop knowledge of currently used process, design and architecture for portfolio management and system data expertise, partnering within Strategic Portfolio Management group to execute activities for the same
• Create operational efficiencies through integrations and automated workloads
• Participate actively in multiple initiatives implementing successful solution & driving project execution in partnership with various internal and external partners.
• Continuously support and evolve documentation principles and standards
• Provide system support and issue resolution for the user community
• Communicate effectively and interact with clients and functional stakeholders.
• Proactively identify gaps in processes, opportunities for improvements and automation

• 5-7 years overall experience in IT, performing analytical, techno-functional roles, primarily the ability to run cross-functional, self-managed task force teams.
• Understanding of system analysis, design and implementation
• Experience working with spreadsheet, presentation and visualization tools to provide actionable insights.
• Knowledge and proficiency with MS Office, Tableau, Looker with an ability to design and develop insights.
• Ability to research, plan, adopt and implement new processes or technology
• Experience in aspects of Software development lifecycle including analysis, design, development of application software and knowledge about project management methodologies.
• Proven ability to work with cross functional and global teams.
• Ability to self-manage multiple, competing priorities and deliverables and co-work with teams.
• Effective time management and ability to prioritize across multiple deliverables with minimal oversight.
• Willingness to work flexible/extended hours in collaboration with multiple time zones.
• Meticulous attention to detail and ability to spot patterns using data analysis in spreadsheets and tools like Tableau.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and learning agility.
• Proven communication skills - verbal and written, with an excellent ability for stakeholder management.
• Experience with Incident Management tools.
• Experience working with Agile Planning tools (Ex. Azure DevOps)
• Continuous Improvement mindset looking for gaps and opportunities
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, business or related field.

• Database experience, including knowledge of SQL, and relational database concepts and models.
• Alation (DB Metadata tool).
• Specification writing.
• Exposure to project, agile and portfolio planning processes and tools.
• Experience with modern Software Engineering principles.
• Technologies xe2x80x93 Google Cloud Platform, Tableau, Looker, databases and Excel analysis
• Inclination towards usage of AI/ML in software development and data analytics
• Experience in analyzing cloud cost management from a financial reporting and cost saving/avoidance perspective is a must
• Works well collaboratively across functional team boundaries.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, complex and transforming environment.
• Candidate should be flexible, reliable, can take initiative, can deal with responsibility, and have a "can do" mentality.
• Experience partnering & collaborating with 3rd Party Vendors
• Experience learning and configuring 3rd Party Vendor software
• Experience with DevOps and CD/CI

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