Title: Senior Director, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics
Location: Cleveland, OH
*Must be located in NE OH*
Emerald Resource Group is currently assisting a top employer recruit for Senior Director, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics in Greater Cleveland Area. Our client is a global leader in the production of innovative healthcare and life science products and service solutions, committed to help customers create a healthier and safer world.
POSITION OVERVIEW:
The Senior Director, Business Intelligence & Data Analytics is the primary IT executive responsible for providing vision and overall leadership to the business intelligence, data analytics and data warehousing departments to ensure alignment with the business units’ needs and objectives. You will oversee activities of these departments by leveraging and delegating to a team of strong second-tier managers and will direct the alignment, adoption, and integration of these disciplines in support of the mission, vision, and strategies of the entire enterprise.
You will be expected to gain a keen understanding of current and future data analytical needs of the business, creating programs and strategic plans to assemble and to develop the technologies, processes, human capital, and financial resources required to support these needs. They will provide thought leadership and subject matter expertise in support of the people, process, and technology employed by the business for consuming, analyzing, and using relevant data and for addressing the business’ key initiatives and issues.
Familiarities with data warehouse-as-a-service, data lakes, data marts, database design, ERPs and overall technology facilities are a must. In addition to partnering with business leaders, you will also work closely with IT leadership in the areas of Business Applications, Cybersecurity, Enterprise Architecture, Operations and Infrastructure, and Project Management to implement and operate the programs and initiatives undertaken in the business intelligence and data analytics mission.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Establish best practices and standards for data management, data integration, data warehousing, business intelligence, analytics and data governance.
• Oversee the analytics function, including data analytics and data science and sets strategic priorities for the function and identifies new business opportunities based on data.
• Ability to put together different tiers for a cloud-based configuration.
• Proactively and regularly provide guidance on where and how analytics can generate business impact/value.
• Identify Challenges across business and find solutions with using data and analytics.
• Communicate with non-technical users about the impact of complex analysis on key performance indicators (KPIs) of the business.
• Drive initiatives for data accuracy, usability, availability, and efficiency for BI and analytics applications.
• Work with enterprise-wide business and IT senior management to understand and prioritize data and analytics requirements.
• Guide performance optimization of enterprise data and analytics tools and applications.
• Lean and manage Analytics Center of Excellence and unify federated business intelligence development under one centrally managed group.
• Understand and enhance the existing Data Literacy curriculum for coaching and training customers in the use of business intelligence tool to enhance business decision making capability.
• Promote and evangelize the value of BI, analytics to all level of business units.
• Convey the return on investment (ROI) of BI to management and executives.
REQUIRED EXPERIENCE:
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or Computer Engineering required. A Business degree or other related field of study will be considered along with proven hands-on technical experience.
• Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of 15 years’ experience.
• Must be hands-on with technical applications, as well as management to lead projects through full life cycle.
• Must have experience with migrating on-premises data and analytics assets such as Data Warehouses, BI tools, etc. to cloud.
• Project Management experience with agile project management methodologies.
• Extensive expertise in data and analytics for a mid-large size company.
• Extensive expertise in Data Science, Data Engineering, data modeling, both logical and physical.
• Extensive experience in multidimensional data modeling, such as star schemas, snowflakes, denormalized models, handling “slow-changing” dimensions/attributes.
• Experience in and understanding of a wide variety of analytical processes (governance, measurement, etc.).
• A solid understanding of key data and analytics trends.
• Experience in vendor management, RFPs and budget management.
• Extensive experience interacting with C-level executives.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent presentation skills.
**WHY EMERALD RESOURCE GROUP**
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