Director Information Technology, Global Business Intelligence

Position:Director Information Technology, Global Business IntelligenceJob Description:

• Building and driving a unified business intelligence strategy globally to provide a framework for the organization to leverage the intelligence across the multiple businesses and systems in use to enable smarter decision making
• Establish best of breed processes and standards for BI solutions
• Partner with the business to standardize data definitions to help the organization measure metrics consistently
• Align on an architectural roadmap for BI in Arrow and build processes, systems, and tools to facilitate the analysis of data while overseeing data governance
• Review current dashboards, tools, reports, and metrics and build a strategy to move to one or few platforms and decide solution consolidation and tool retirement strategies
• Partner with the business and operations teams in developing strategies for improvement and manage escalations that require coordination across departments.
• Lead and grow a global team of BI experts to partner with application teams to delivery actionable insights, dashboards, analytics and reports
• Collaborate with multiple internal partners like other application teams, DBA, Infrastructure, Networking, IT Risk, Internal Audit, Logistics, etc. to establish strategic plans, meet critical objectives and identify & solve issues.
• Ensure employees are positioned for success by providing coaching, guidance and championing performance and development opportunities.
• Foster a nimble culture to improve business outcomes using IT methodologies that work
• Demonstrate technical proficiency by providing high level guidance to internal business and staff.
• Ensure budgets, resources and schedules meet corporate requirements and annual milestones by adhering to financial and budgetary standards.
• Direct, monitor and mentor on methodology, tools, templates, standards, policies, and procedures. Lead all aspects of vendor management for tools within BI including selection, negotiation, dispute resolution, and long-term relationship management.
• Manage and nurture relationships with key suppliers, outsource partners and vendors on a global basis both internal and external and ensure organizational goals and needs are met.
• Stay up to date with new technologies, concepts, and trends to revise the roadmap and strategies outlined annually

• Requires a minimum of 15 years of related experience with a 4-year degree; or 12 years and an advanced degree; or equivalent experience.
• Proven experience in BI within large organizations expected
• Incident management and ability to enforce sensible security practices expected
• Knowledge of technology platforms and interdependencies with hardware and software platforms used in similar organizations
• Strong leadership skills as a change agent using influence and inspiration in addition to developing multi-disciplined work teams
• Ability to work across multiple levels of the organization from developers to senior leadership and spanning both business and IT teams that support BI and Reporting operationally
• Ability to create white papers that clearly state the advantages and ROI for new technology investments
• Proven process improvement capabilities demonstrating the ability to proactively identify problems and recommend solutions
• Strong customer-oriented approach and ability to influence others to achieve outstanding customer satisfaction
• Expertise in tools like Microsoft Power BI, Azure, Tableau, Informatica, or MicroStrategy strongly preferred
• High level of autonomy, self-motivation, and resourcefulness
• Demonstrated project management experience in organizing, planning, and executing large-scale projects from conception through implementation
• Requires the ability to influence and manage across IT Groups and geographies working with many different ERP systems, vendors, and consulting partners with various complexities

• Medical, Dental, Vision Insurance
• 401k, With Matching Contributions
• Paid Time Off
• Health Savings Account (HSA)/Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) Options
• Growth Opportunities
• Short-Term/Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Discounted RTD Passes, with convenient office location off RTD Light Rail (Dry Creek Exit)
• On-site Café with Catering Option for Busy Lifestyles (availability subject to COVID-19 office guidelines)
• 24/7/365 On-site Gym and Lockers, Free for Use to All Employees! (availability subject to COVID-19 office guidelines)
• Bike Racks
• And more!