Enterprise Analytics & Innovation Director

Bolton & Menk, a top regional consulting engineering firm in the Midwest is looking to add a Enterprise Analytics & Innovation Director to our team. As a Top Workplace, this is a fantastic chance to work with a talented team of professionals and make a lasting impact on the communities we serve. With over 75 years of experience, Bolton & Menk specializes in providing community infrastructure solutions across the Midwest, Southeast, and beyond.

The Enterprise Analytics & Innovation Director will lead the company's data and AI strategies, creating efficiency, knowledge, and ultimately insight through advanced analytical methods and machine learning technologies. In addition, this role will lead the innovation processes of the company intended to continuously improve and enhance both our business functions (our processes) and our professional practice offerings (our products). The Enterprise Analytics & Innovation Director will report directly to the COO and work with the Management Team, Leadership Team, and other senior company leaders to assure the work of the Enterprise Analytics & Innovation Director and their team seamlessly and elegantly supports sanctioned organizational goals and aspirations.

What You Will Be Doing:

• Enterprise Analytics: Empower with insight. Make analytics a seamless, second-nature part of leadership and management decision-making—strategic and operational.
  • Build a modern, scalable analytics environment that supports Leadership Reporting Manager Reporting and Need-Specific Analysis
  • Translate ERP, CRM, and ancillary system data into clear, timely, and trusted knowledge and insights
  • Promote data-driven decision habits across project reviews, planning meetings, and executive discussions
  • Lead the AI Core Team working group to advance the deployment of AI across the company with the overarching goal of creating an ethical, secure, and insightful AI system to serve the needs of the Company
• Enterprise Analytics: Enable with Process. Design the systems, workflows, and automation that streamlines work, reduces process friction, and allows team members to focus on their highest value activities.
  • Identify high-friction, manual, or error-prone workflows and redesign them for automation and efficiency
  • Partner with operational and technical leaders to integrate AI-assisted and AI- enhanced processes as desired and appropriate throughout our systems
  • Build fit-to-purpose technical infrastructure to support smart automation
  • Establish and enforce data governance policies to ensure data quality, integrity, and security.
• Innovation: Encourage Future Focused Company Posture and Culture. Assure company leadership is focused on the long-term possibilities of the future as related to technology’s evolving trends and tools.
  • Stay abreast of current technology-based trends and tools
  • As deemed appropriate, necessary, or desired, contribute to the development of new internal workflows and systems by directly assisting in their development through design and program coding
  • Regularly brief executive leadership on emerging technologies that may be beneficial to the company
  • Lead and facilitate a company “Kitchen Table” collaboration team with the purpose cutting edge ideation.
• Innovation: Drive the BMI “Cycle of Innovation”. Assure the mechanisms and systems necessary to ideate, vet, formulate, and distribute helpful internal processes and industry best products are robust and effective.
  • Lead both process (business focused) and product focused (practice focused) ideation teams
  • Vet ideas to establish their usefulness to the business through engagement of company leadership and selected SMEs
  • Lead and contribute to the teams developing and formulating sanctioned ideas into functioning workflows and programs
  • Develop appropriate plans, training, and communications to distribute final products both internally and externally as appropriate
  • Collaborate with company executive, strategy, and business development leaders to ideate, develop, and distribute company differentiators intended to maintain and enhance the company’s competitive advantage within our geographic markets and service offerings
• Team Development and Collaboration: Enact with People. Build the team, capabilities, and culture needed to make analytics and innovation an integral and sustainable part of how the firm grows, adapts, and operates.
• • Build an effective and value-generating Analytics team, identifying and coordinating internal talent already doing analytics-adjacent work and recruiting new team members
  • Lead efforts to cultivate role-appropriate data