Sr. Manager, Data Analytics

Company Overview

Why Choose Us?

Novolex is a leading manufacturer of food, beverage, and specialty packaging that supports multiple industries including foodservice, restaurant delivery and carryout, food processing, grocery and retail, and industrial sectors. Novolex manufacturing and sourcing expertise spans a diverse range of substrates including resin, paper, molded fiber, aluminum and more. We provide customers a broad array of stock and customized solutions with 120 product categories, 250 brands and over 39,000 SKUs.

Our Sustainability Commitment

The Novolex sustainability vision is built upon three pillars: our products, our operations and our people. Each is critically important to our growth and future as a business. These pillars form the foundation of our company-wide commitment to sustainability, helping us achieve our ambitious goals through our wide-ranging initiatives.

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

The Senior Manager, Data Analytics will lead the development of enterprise operations analytics including establishing KPIs, root causing and data quality improvements.  This role is responsible for ensuring that operational KPIs are built on accurate, timely, and governed data pipelines spanning manufacturing, supply chain, quality, and logistics systems. The role will establish repeatable data processes, standard definitions, and controls that enable trusted performance reporting and data-driven decision-making at plant, regional, and enterprise levels. The position partners closely with Operations, Plant Leadership, Supply Chain, Finance, and IT to translate operational strategy into measurable, scalable outcomes.

• Define and own the end-to-end operations KPI framework across manufacturing, supply chain, quality, safety, and logistics.
• Partner with operations and plant leadership to identify critical performance drivers (e.g., throughput, yield, scrap, OEE, downtime, labor productivity, service levels).
• Establish standardized KPI definitions, calculation logic, targets, and governance across plants and distribution centers.
• Lead development of plant-level, regional, and enterprise scorecards used in daily, weekly, and monthly operating reviews.
• Oversee design and delivery of operational dashboards and self-service reporting using BI tools.
• Build and drive standards for metric documentation, data governance, and operational reporting.
• Continuously improve analytics processes, automation, and scalability to support growing operational complexity.
• Design and implement reliable, repeatable data pipelines for operational KPIs across ERP, quality, and logistics systems.
• Establish data quality standards, validation checks, and controls to ensure KPI accuracy and trust.
• Own and maintain metric definitions, data lineage, and documentation to support transparency and auditability.
• Enable data-driven decisions related to asset utilization, line optimization, and make-vs-buy analyses.

 

What We Need from You:

• Bachelor’s degree in Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Operations, Business, or a related field
• 8+ years of experience in data analytics, business intelligence, or performance measurement
• 3+ years of experience managing or leading analytics teams
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling KPI frameworks across business functions
• Strong ability to translate business strategy into measurable outcomes
• Advanced SQL skills and experience with BI tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Looker)
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Experience with change management and driving analytics adoption

 

Novolex® is a leader in packaging innovation, choice and sustainability. We manufacture products in paper, plastic and sustainable materials for the food, retail, health and industrial markets.

This is a hybrid position.

• Wellness rewards to fund your HRA or HSA
• Paid holidays, time off, parental and other leaves
• Financial protection benefits such as life, AD&D and disability insurance, and 401(k) Plan with employer matching contributions
• Education Support (for example, tuition reimbursement, Chairman’s Scholarship, 529 College Savings Plan)
• Broad Based Employee Award Program—value sharing plan for all employees with one year of service
• Employee Assistance Program and much more!

 

Company Benefits

What You'll Get From Us

Benefits

With safety as our top priority and a commitment to employee well-being an important focus, we offer comprehensive and competitive benefits that include medical, dental and vision insurance as well as a variety of other w