I work for a technical statistical team in the financial world, we've been hiring PHDs lately to my team which has just meant exactly what this comment points out.
I do a lot of the grunt work of getting the data sourced, cleaned and ready and am called the 'data wizard' and other such annoying names.
What's frustrating is I can run the last lines of code and read and understand the output of the last step, but as the original question asked, management would prefer someone with a phd or masters in customer analytics to be the expert of the data output.