Product Owner, Data & Analytics

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Product Ownership
• Power BI Reporting & Visualization Standards
• Drive Data Governance Data Quality & Consistency
• Agile Delivery Scrum Leadership & Backlog Prioritization
• Cross-Functional Business Partnership & Enablement
• Advancing Analytics Maturity across the Enterprise

• Partner with FP&A Strategy and Business Owners to advance our capabilities to support growth
• Develop and own the enterprise analytics strategy including a multi-year roadmap.
• Serve as product owner for analytics prioritizing the backlog and driving adoption.
• Establish standards for reporting semantic models data definitions and data quality.
• Partner with business leaders to align analytics initiatives with strategic programs.
• Define and manage KPIs dashboards and insights that support enterprise objectives.
• Own the quality and consistency of enterprise reporting reports and data
• Lead business teams on new capabilities to advance the business
• Lead a Data & Analytics Steering Committee to prioritize and govern data and analytics investments to meet the enterprise goals

• Lead develop and coach the BI Analyst team responsible for reporting dashboards UX design and business insights.
• Ensure strong alignment between reporting engineering governance and business stakeholders.
• Develop team structure goals and a high-performance analytics culture.
• Manage and build third party vendor partnerships for analytics delivery
• Manage and optimize the BI & Analytics budget
• Lead Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning backlog refinement standups and retrospectives.
• Manage capacity planning and ensure timely delivery of analytics solutions.
• Drive continuous improvement in development processes automation testing and documentation.

• Establish and lead the organizations data governance program.
• Define enterprise data standards data quality policies and metadata practices.
• Partner with business units to improve ownership of master data domains.
• Ensure scalable governed data models that support enterprise-wide reporting.
• Improve trust lineage and transparency of enterprise data.

• Understand key aspects of the distribution business model including pricing margin inventory and sales.
• Develop insights that improve growth margin customer experience and operational efficiency.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on analytics opportunities and impact.

• Must be able to manage a large program or project delivery from a tactical level and provide guidance where necessary to sponsorship/leadership
• Must handle conflict resolution professionally.
• Must influence without authority in a highly matrixed environment.
• Must be able to work in an environment where things are not always clear and then be able to provide clarity
• Must master different communication methods and pivot quickly according to business needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in Analytics Computer Science MIS Data Science Engineering or related field.
• 5 years of experience in analytics BI or data engineering
• 2 years leading analytics teams
• Expert experience with Power BI including DAX semantic models and visualization.
• Preferred experience with Databricks SQL and Lakehouse ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Experience serving as product owner for analytics or data-driven initiatives.
• Strong Agile/Scrum leadership experience.
• Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.
• Experience in Distribution or Manufacturing preferred.
• After hours availability and travel are required.

Collaboration/Teamwork: Develops cooperation and teamwork while participating in a group of people working toward solutions that generally benefit all involved parties.

Communication: Creates an atmosphere in which timely and high-quality information flows smoothly both up the organization and down inside the organization; encourages open expression of ideas and opinions.

Customer Focus: Demonstrates concern for meeting internal and external customers needs in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer. (Customers can be co-workers peers or management as well as external consumers of a service such as students parents or community members.

Energy/Drive for Results: Demonstrates concern for achieving or surpassing results against an internal or external standard of excellence. Shows a passion for improving the delivery of services with a commitment to continuous improvement. Consistently maintaining a high activity or productivity level and potentially sustaining long working hours.

Technical/Functional Expertise: Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge skills and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve ones customers effectively. (Customers can be co-workers peers or management as well as external consumers of a service.)