A Week in the Life
Your week typically begins by orienting around active projects and priorities. In the early weeks and months, that means spending significant time getting to know the organization: meeting with teams, learning the business and operating plan, and building familiarity with the existing tech stack, especially Wrike and the current AMS. You are absorbing context quickly and asking good questions, because understanding how the organization works is the prerequisite to improving how it tracks and measures its work.
A significant portion of your week is spent in the data itself. This might mean building or refining a visualization in Power BI or Excel, working through a data cleanse task, writing a query to pull a specific data set, or diagnosing why a report is not refreshing correctly. You are detail-oriented and precise in this work, and you hold yourself to a high standard on accuracy because you know that the decisions being made off your output matter.
Stakeholder conversations are a regular part of your week as well. Staff across the organization will bring you data requests, and your job is not just to fulfill the request but to understand what is being asked and why. You are comfortable saying, “I hear what you’re asking for, but here’s what I think you actually need,” and helping people get to the right question before you build the answer. These conversations require patience, curiosity, and the ability to communicate clearly with people at varying levels of technical familiarity.
You work closely with the Director of Strategic Initiatives throughout the week, checking in on priorities, pressure-testing approaches, and collaborating on how to move projects forward. Your manager gives a lot of feedback and changes direction when a good argument is made; you need to be someone who can engage with that dynamic productively, push back when you have a better idea, and move forward decisively once a direction is set.
Depending on the week, you may also be supporting Wrike training development, assisting with project management tasks, or contributing to a technology transition project. The scope of this role extends a bit beyond a traditional business analyst function, and that is by design. The work that flows through Executive Services is broad, and you are expected to be a contributor across it, not just within a narrow technical lane.
No two weeks are identical, and that is the nature of building something new. You bring structure to ambiguity, creativity to open-ended problems, and the self-motivation to keep moving even when the path is not fully clear.
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