Company Overview:
If a culture of excellence, innovation and ownership is what you're searching for, consider putting your experience in motion at Flowserve. As an individual contributor, or as a leader of people, your enterprise mindset will ensure Flowserve's position as the global standard in comprehensive flow control solutions. Here, your opportunity for professional development and industry leading rewards will be supported by our foundational commitments to the values of people first, integrity and safety. Thinking beyond opportunity and reward, at Flowserve, we are inspired by working together to create extraordinary flow control solutions to make the world better for everyone!
Role Summary:
Reporting to the Director of Commercial Excellence - FPD, the Data Translator enables Flowserve's Commercial Excellence strategy by ensuring analytics and commercial dashboards are accurate, actionable, and trusted by the sales team. Acting as the bridge between Commercial Excellence, analytics/IT teams, and Sales, this role translates business needs into clear analytic requirements, validates insights with the field, and ensures data-driven insights are consistently activated by Sales to drive profitable growth.
This role is central to ensuring insight quality, accelerating adoption, and translating data into measurable commercial impact.
Translate business priorities into analytics use cases that drive profitable growth.
Enhance the usability, credibility, and adoption of Commercial Excellence analytics by Sales Engineers and MOSs.
Accelerate the transition from insight identification to field action.
Improve data completeness and accuracy for Commercial dashboards and analytic models.
Responsibilities:
Insight Translation & Analytics Enablement
Translate Commercial Excellence and business priorities into analytics and dashboard requirements.
Define and document analytics requirements, assumptions, and success criteria to ensure analytics development aligns with business objectives.
Partner with analytics teams on opportunity identification, KPI definitions, and validation logic.
Develop and lead a structured meeting cadence with working team comprised of IT, Analytics, and SMEs from the business.
Develop regular progress updates that synthesize key insights, roadblocks, and next steps for business leadership
Field Validation & Activation
Validate analytics outputs with Sales Engineers and MOSs.
Identify data inaccuracies and gaps, and misaligned assumptions.
Drive continuous refinement of analytic models based on field feedback.
Collaborate with sales leadership to validate, prioritize, and progress leads.
Review analytic outputs to confirm accuracy, relevance, and usability.
Data Quality & Governance
Establish and monitor data quality standards for Commercial Excellence dashboards and analytics.
Work with analytics and BI teams to address data gaps.
Adoption & Enablement
Translate complex analytics into simple, field-ready narratives, and insights.
Support Commercial Excellence training teams to reinforce desired selling behaviors and analytic activation.
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field
3-5 years in analytics, commercial operations, business analysis, or sales enablement roles within industrial environments
Understanding of SQL/Python for data validation
Proven ability to simplify complex analytics
Experience facilitating meetings, project management, tracking metrics, and removing obstacles.
Strong understanding of commercial processes and the customer journey.
Ability to synthesize commercial scenarios and associated data, translating them into actionable insights.
Excellent communication skills; comfortable engaging sales teams and cross-functional partners.
Proactive approach and commitment to innovation and continuous improvement.
Preferred
Experience with BI Dashboards, CRM/CPQ systems (Salesforce preferred), Jira/Azure DevOps is a preferred
Experience supporting industrial sales teams preferred
Benefits Starting on Day 1:
Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance (including FSA and HSA options)
Life Insurance + Supplemental Life, Child, Spousal, and AD&D Insurance
Short- and Long-Term Disability
Retirement Planning, 401(k) plan, & Financial Wellness Resources
Educational Assistance Program
Time off Policies (including sick leave, parental leave, and paid vacation)
Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on job classification and length of employment
Flowserve is a world-leading manufacturer and aftermarket service provider of comprehensive flow control systems. Join a company whose people are committed to building a more sustainable future to make the world better for everyone. With 16,000+ employees in 50+ countries, we combine our global reach with local presence. Our team challenges themselves to approach each situation with ingenuity and creativity to help provide our customers with the most innovative flow control products and services. We support 10,000+ customers worldwide, creating products to meet the needs of our customers who are supplying energy, fresh water, pharmaceuticals and other essentials to consumers, businesses and governments globally. We invite you to put your talents and career in motion at Flowserve.
Req ID : R-17738
Job Family Group : Information Technology
Job Family : IT Business Analysis
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