What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Data Management & Analytics position at Midwest Executive Search Group?
The Director of Data Management & Analytics is a strategic and hands-on leadership position that was established to define and execute the business’s data and analytics strategy, including data warehouse and data engineering capabilities. The Director partners with all functions to scale analytics across the organization and deliver trusted, compliant, and actionable data products that support operational excellence, regulatory compliance, customer transparency, and actionable insights. This position combines ownership of data strategy and hands-on facilitation of data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and semantic layers, ensuring high-quality, well-governed data flows from ERP system into a scalable analytics platform that supports insightful reporting and decision-making.
Data and Analytics Strategy
- Develop and implement end-to-end data and analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate policy, business priorities and regulatory requirements.
- Collaborate with IT and Master Data teams to design and implement the business’s data architecture, data warehouse and data engineering capabilities.
- Own data ingestion, transformation, modeling, and orchestration processes, ensuring reliable and timely data flows from source systems into analytics platforms.
Data Governance, Analytics & Compliance
- Collaborate with IT and Master Data teams to enhance data governance, including data ownership, access controls, and quality standards in alignment with corporate policies
- Standardize business analytics, deliver effective dashboards, reports, and self-service analytics that support operational, regulatory, customer and financial transparency
- Translate complex operational and financial data into executive-level insights and decision-ready reporting for leadership teams and corporate stakeholders
- Establish semantic models and standardize existing metrics to ensure consistency and trust in reporting
- Partner with Business Transformation team to drive adoption of analytics technologies and automation tools to improve performance and user experience
- Collaborate with Operations Excellence team to continuously evaluate and implement improvements to analytics and delivery models
Qualifications, Skills, and Abilities
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Data Engineering or a related field
- Master’s degree or advanced analytics certification required
- 5 years of progressive experience in data engineering, business intelligence or data architecture leadership roles
- Demonstrated ownership of enterprise data platforms, including data warehouse design and data engineering pipelines
- Experience operating in regulated environments
- Proven track record delivering executive-level analytics and scalable BI solutions
- Expertise in data warehousing concepts, dimensional modeling, and semantic layer design
- Hands-on experience with SAP data structures and integration (e.g. ECC, S/4HANA, Business Warehouse, or equivalent)
- Experience with data platforms and modern BI tools (e.g., Azure, Snowflake, Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
- Expertise in data governance, data quality frameworks, and metadata management
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and effectively influence stakeholders
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business-relevant insights
- Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed, and regulated manufacturing environment