What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Business Intelligence position at New York Road Runners?
About NYRR
New York Road Runners (NYRR) was founded in 1958 when a small group of passionate runners vowed to bring running to the people and has grown from a local running club into the world’s premier community running organization. NYRR’s mission is to help and inspire through running, aiming to empower people of all ages and abilities to improve their health and well-being through the power of running and fitness.
NYRR’s year-round offerings of races, community events, programs, and training resources provide hundreds of thousands of people with the motivation, know-how, and opportunities to start running and keep running for life. NYRR’s premier event, the famed TCS New York City Marathon, attracts the world’s top professional runners and committed amateurs alike, while also raising millions of dollars annually for charity and driving economic impact for New York City. NYRR is equally committed to the runners of tomorrow, passionately providing youth fitness programs that educate and inspire children in underserved communities in New York City, nationwide, and around the world.
Headquartered in New York City, NYRR is a 501(c)(3) organization. To learn more, please visit www.nyrr.org.
At New York Road Runners, we are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace by finding the best candidate for the job. We understand that skills come from a variety of different backgrounds. Checking off every single requirement on our job description is not necessary to apply. If you think you are a good fit and have a passion for the work we do, please submit your application. We are eager to learn about your experience and skills! You may be the right candidate for this or other open positions.
New York Road Runners is an Equal Opportunity Employer
About the Department
The Strategy, Planning and Analytics Department works collaboratively with each department across the organization to support strategy formulation, growth plan execution, and project implementation. The team provides the organization with in-depth analytical support in evaluating existing operations and new business opportunities. They help lead and advise cross-functional project teams in executing the many action items and special projects that have been designed to help NYRR continue to reach its strategic objectives.
About the Position
The Director of Business Intelligence will report to the Vice President of Strategy, Planning, and Analytics with the core responsibility of supporting the Vice President in advancing NYRR’s data strategy, analytics, insights, and governance. The role requires a balance of analytics expertise with solid business strategy and strong communication skills; balanced with technical capabilities. The Director will act as a bridge between data-driven insights and decision-making processes at the organization, while ensuring NYRR maintains a modern data architecture with proper data governance. This position will be responsible for a suite of dashboards (primarily in Tableau, potential for other platforms) that enable a culture of data literacy and will manage ad-hoc analytics reporting requests from departments across the organization.
Job Responsibilities:
Data Strategy, Management, and Governance
- Re-define and implement NYRR’s data strategy and associated data architecture development plan
- Partner with IT to:
- Define and implement the business and technology requirements for data collection and management across multiple platforms
- Ensure data quality and data governance
Data Analytics & Insights
- Oversee business analytics, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities and initiatives
- Ownership and oversight of the creation of data visualization, dashboards, metrics, and other key data analytics tools to provide meaningful insights for the organization
- Lead data analytics projects, including performance of quantitative analyses, analytical model development and testing
- Provide accurate and timely responses to ad-hoc data analysis requests
- Stay up to date on trends and best practices within data analytics, as well as new and emerging technologies in the space
Collaboration and Communication:
- Act as a liaison between departments, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making aligned with the organization’s strategic plan
- Become a trusted partner with all departments and work to define their analytics requirements
- Tell compelling stories through data, articulating technical information to a non-technical audience
- Monitor, manage, and regularly synthesize data requests from across the organization to identify areas for improvement
Supervisory Duties and Responsibilities:
- Effectively manage employee performance through communication of expectations and standards
- Prepare performance appraisals. Work with next level management when employee performance does not meet standards
- Provide effective feedback and coaching to employees, including potential areas of improvement
- Create goals for the team and individual employees
- Encourage an environment of transparency, support, development, and growth
- Delegate and distribute tasks and responsibilities appropriately
- Ensure employees and staff adhere to company policies and procedures
- Make decisions based on best interest of organization
- Promote team culture that coincides with NYRR mission and core values
Job Requirements:
Experience:
- 5 years relevant experience in data analytics or related field
- Proven success planning and implementing data analytics strategies
- Experience modeling and analyzing large data sets
- Team leadership and managing team members’ portfolios and professional development
Education & Certifications:
- Undergraduate Degree in Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science or related coursework in data analytics, data visualization, or performance measurement
- Advanced degrees or coursework preferred
Skills and Attributes:
- Resourceful, innovative, and strategic leader
- High initiative, able to assert recommendations and effectively and expediently drive work forward
- Strong planning, organization, analytical and problem-solving skills to maximize business impact and team efficiency
- Fluency with programming languages and statistical software, including SQL, R, Salesforce, Tableau, Power BI
- Strong ability to translate data into practical, actionable insights and recommendations
- Outstanding communication and collaboration skills, including the ability to work both independently or with a variety of internal and external constituencies; ability to translate technical concepts for those without technical or analytical backgrounds
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Power Point, Outlook, Teams), with advanced Excel skills and analytic functions
Other Requirements:
- All staff are required to work the NYC Half Marathon, Brooklyn Half Marathon, and the TCS New York City Marathon
Salary: $95,000 - $100,000/year
NYRR requires all employees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 unless approved for a medical or religious exemption.
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