Product Owner – Data & Analytics Location: Addison, IL or Warren MI Full Time Hire
Summary: The Product Owner is leadership role, responsible for the analytics ecosystem. This includes Power BI, Databricks, data modeling, data governance, data catalog and master data management practices. The role leads the BI Analysts and partners with the Data Engineering teams, sets direction, prioritizes the roadmap, contributes to IT strategy, governance, prioritization of initiatives, budget planning, and alignment to the business strategy.
Cross-Functional Business Partnership & Enablement
Advancing Analytics Maturity across the Enterprise
Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Product Ownership
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
Team Leadership & Delivery
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.
Data Governance & Data Management
Establish and lead the organization's 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.
Business Alignment & Industry Expertise
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.
Leadership Behaviors & Mindset Requirements
Must be able to manage a large program or project delivery from a tactical level, and provide guidance where necessary to sponsorship/leadership
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 Skills:
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.
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.
Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.
Key Competencies
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 (internal and external).
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 one’s “customers” effectively.
Numbers & Facts
Location
Addison, Illinois
Website
https://tmpresourcing.com
Skills
Agile Programming Methodologiesunmatched
Alliance/Partner Marketingunmatched
Analysis Skillsunmatched
Backlog Prioritizationunmatched
Budget Managementunmatched
Budgetingunmatched
Business Intelligenceunmatched
Business Modelunmatched
Business Strategyunmatched
Capacity Managementunmatched
Coachingunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Continuous Improvementunmatched
Cross-Functionalunmatched
Customer Experienceunmatched
Customer Relationsunmatched
Customer Satisfactionunmatched
Data Analysisunmatched
Data Managementunmatched
Data Modelingunmatched
Data Qualityunmatched
Data Scienceunmatched
Database Extract Transform and Load (ETL)unmatched
Documentationunmatched
Ecosystemsunmatched
Establish Prioritiesunmatched
Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)unmatched
IT Governanceunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
Metadataunmatched
People Managementunmatched
Performance Analysisunmatched
Performance Metricsunmatched
Power BIunmatched
Process Improvementunmatched
Product Pricingunmatched
Reporting Dashboardsunmatched
SQL (Structured Query Language)unmatched
Salesunmatched
Scrum Project Management and Software Developmentunmatched
Service Deliveryunmatched
Sprint Planningunmatched
Standards Developmentunmatched
Standup Meetingsunmatched
Team Lead/Managerunmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
Time Managementunmatched
User Experience Design (UXD)unmatched
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