Data Analytics BI Manager

Data Analytics Manager (contract)

 

Your day to day: 

The data analytics/BI manager leads a team of BI experts (formally and informally), understands the business needs, produces data and/or reporting for various groups (manufacturing, engineering, quality, etc), plans work, and manages and deploys resources. This person ensures that the enterprise data flow architecture is adhered to.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and develop a team of BI experts in a matrix organization.
• Engage directly with the business teams to design and develop impactful, dynamic, and insightful BI visualizations, dashboards, and other analytical tools.
• Present results from large/complex data sets in a coherent format, tailored for the audience.
• Serve as a technical resource and SME for BI platforms (Power BI, SQL, SAP HANA BW).
• Act as a liaison between BI developers and the business stakeholders.
• Evaluate current strategies and work with the team in developing recommendations and improvements.
• Escalate resolution gaps with business owners / partners.

 

Qualifications:

• Strong leadership skills and ability to develop relationships with each department and BU
• Works well with IT
• Healthy dissatisfaction for status quo is needed to investigate, assess, and fix issues, then drive continuous improvements with a Kaizen/continuous improvement mindset

 

Skills:

• Understand the importance of KPIs and their definitions
• Data discovery: dealing with fragmented and varied data sources
• Expertise and 5+ years of experience with
  • Power BI
  • Back-end experience: expertise with databases (SQL, SAP HANA BW),
  • Data structures (star schemas etc.)
  • ETL processes
• SAP experience – expert in one or more functional modules – MM/VM/PP/QM is a plus

 

Who you are: 

Education: BS in a technical field (Computer Science, industrial engineering, mechanical engineering, information systems etc)

Experience- 5 plus years of management experience