BI Expert

Key Purpose Statement:

The overall remit of the BI Expert is to partner with respective business functions to understand business challenges and identify data driven solutions to overcome those challenges. By understanding the strategy, processes, and day to day operations of the business functions, and the data and analytics capabilities of IT and industry trends, this person will be able to support current demand but also be able to proactively work with the business to identify new opportunities to apply insights and analytics to their respective areas. The objective is to turn BMI into a data driven organization.

Responsibilities:

• Understand the strategy, processes, and day to day operations of the respective business functions
• Understand data and analytics capabilities of BMI IT and industry trends that can assist in the extraction of insights from data, promoting appropriate technology and processes which will help gain insight into data
• Collect business requirements, analyze, help business with the reports/dashboards’ prototypes
• Make sure that any new developments are compliant to the Insights & Analytics roadmap
• Collaborate with the development team
• Help with user acceptance testing, work closely with Solution Architects, and develop recommendations for business improvements
• Manage and prioritize the portfolio of the business functions’ Insights & Analytics demands, ensuring proper prioritization based on business cases
• Ensure timely delivery of Insights & Analytics within agreed budgets
• Look for opportunities across business functions to leverage investments into Insights & Analytics and to share learnings
• Track industry trends to enable proactive consulting on opportunities with the business teams
• Identify opportunities to adopt pioneering technology in conjunction with data science
• Be capable of seeing the bigger picture, able to envision and articulate a complete end-to-end data flow to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Understand how to create predictive models for what can be large datasets, in order to provide an organization with insight and forecasting

• Degree level educated in a relevant subject area
• IT consulting and project management experience
• Experience of leading workshops, requirement gathering, and creation of business requirements documentation
• Ability to gather requirements, test strategies, design deliverables and define best practices and procedures for the group
• Experience with project implementations of Enterprise Information Management technologies (e.g. Informatica, SAP, Oracle etc). Experience working with SAP is considered as an advantage.
• Broad knowledge of current technology, tools and techniques for Insight and Analytics
• Fluency in English is mandatory - other European languages is an advantage

Roles, Skills & Attributes Required

• Team player with can-do mentality and solution minded
• Self-starter able to operate with minimum supervision
• Excellent communication, written and presentation skills
• Demonstrated ability to work in a global, matrix / team environment, with geographically dispersed teams
• Ability to build strong relationships at senior levels in the business both vertically and laterally and to influence and be persuasive at all levels.
• Strong negotiation skills with the ability to resolve conflicts and problems and follow through to completion
• Highest ethical standards, integrity, credibility, and character
• Strong market, business and commercial awareness combined with pragmatic technical leadership
• Ability to work under pressure and identify and prioritize key issues in a fast-changing environment
• Dynamic and agile thinker and problem solver with creative, innovative approach and high level of empathy
• Entrepreneurial spirit and high commitment, determination, resilience as well as quality and cost awareness
• Outstanding interpersonal, collaboration and communication skills both written and verbal combined with the ability to work across diverse cultures