What are the responsibilities and job description for the Business Intelligence Director position at Alliance Franchise Brands?
Who We Are
Alliance Franchise Brands LLC is the franchisor of approximately 600 locations across North America operating the company’s brands: Allegra Marketing Print Mail, Image360, Signs Now, Signs By Tomorrow, KKP, Insty-Prints, American Speedy Printing Centers, and True Install.
Our independently owned and operated Franchise Members provide businesses and organizations with a one‑stop resource for technologically advanced solutions in printing, signage, marketing, and graphics communications.
Our Core Focus & Values
At Alliance Franchise Brands, our Core Focus and Core Values serve as the foundation for how we operate and who we are. They are embedded into our culture and guide how we support Franchise Members, collaborate internally, and deliver impact every day.
Core Focus
OUR PASSION: Empowering Success
OUR NICHE: High‑Impact Programs and Support
Core Values
- Members First
- Ethical & Trustworthy
- Can‑Do, Results Driven
- Respect Others
- Passion for Being Great
Summary/objective
The Business Intelligence Director will serve as AFB’s enterprise data leader, aggressively driving the company’s data strategy, governance, and execution. This role goes beyond traditional BI – owning the transformation of data into a competitive advantage by building a high-performance, scalable analytics ecosystem, enforcing accountability for data quality, and ensuring insights directly influence business outcomes across corporate and franchise operations.
Essential functions
- Own and relentlessly drive the enterprise BI and data strategy, roadmap, and execution priorities
- Lead and enforce governance across distributed data systems, ensuring consistency, usability, and trust in enterprise data
- Contribute to defining, standardization and enforcement of governed data across multiple lines of business
- Act as a strategic partner and challenger to executive leadership, ensuring decisions are driven by the right data
- Architect and oversee scalable data models, pipelines, transformation notebooks and reporting frameworks
- Create and manage a dependable data infrastructure
- Ensure data quality, integrity, compliance, and security are non-negotiable standards across the enterprise
- Proactively identify gaps, risks, and inefficiencies in data usage and systematically implement solutions
- Establish a culture of data accountability and ownership across all functions
- Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing data and analytics team, setting a high bar for performance and impact
Competencies
- Mastery of empathetic data principles
- Rapid sensemaking of raw datasets
- Methodical and iterative KPI, dashboard and reporting development
- Application of modern UI/UX best practices
- Building effective partnerships with executive leadership and diverse stakeholders
- Analytical and critical thinking skills
- Driving adoption of practical data processes from collection to reporting.
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Moving quickly from insight to implementation
Work environment
- Professional corporate and team-oriented environment
- Hybrid work schedule with at least 2 days each week in office
Physical demands
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer
- Must be able to lift up to 15 pounds at times
- Standard business hours although occasional after-hours work may be required for system deployments or issue resolution.
Travel required
- Minimal travel, less than 10%
Required education and experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, software engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 10 years of business intelligence experience
- Deep experience in franchise or multi-location business models
- Advanced expertise in Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, and SQL-based data platforms
- Expertise in one or more data related languages (e.g.: Python [Pandas, NumPy], PySpark, DAX, R, DTL, etc.)
- Proven ability to build and audit enterprise grade BI environments
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder partnership skills.
Other duties
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.