Lead BI Analyst

Are you looking for an opportunity to turn your ambition and your people skills into a rewarding career with an industry leader? Join our team at American Tire Distributors! As the nation's premier tire distributor, ATD’s coast-to-coast distribution network provides approximately 80,000 customers across the U.S. and Canada with rapid and frequent delivery of high quality tires, custom wheels and shop supplies.

Position Description:

The Lead BI Analyst spearheads innovation in business intelligence solutions, setting best practices and ensuring their integration across the organization. The role involves leading initiatives within the Data Management Organization (DMO), fostering partnerships, and managing data demand alongside internal teams and business partners. The role also coaches and mentors team members within DMO to elevate their capabilities and drive meaningful data-driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Coach others on best practices in data visualization to ensure deliverables align with DMO standards.
• Cultivate strong relationships with business partners to align analytics demand with team capacity.
• Document processes, decisions, and schematics to preserve institutional knowledge and facilitate transparency.
• Enhance data accessibility company-wide by disseminating analysis and providing training to enable self-service data access.
• Evaluate project scopes accurately and provide realistic estimates for project timelines and resources.
• Influence and motivate stakeholders in a matrix environment to achieve shared goals.
• Lead decision-making processes for significant changes to data analytics tools and workflows.
• Lead the research, design, and implementation of data models, pipelines, reports, and dashboards to address business challenges effectively.
• Mentor and coach analysts, sharing expertise and fostering professional growth.
• Provide recommendations on tool selection and workflow enhancements to optimize team efficiency.

Competencies

• Action Planning - The ability to review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Action-Oriented - Taking on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
• Adaptive Mindset - Adapts existing tools and techniques to existing situation~Adapts to changing goals / objectives~Entrepreneurial spirit~Focuses on simplicity when addressing the customer
• Application Development - The ability and skill to develop software through use of programming languages required for job responsibilities
• Balances Stakeholders - Anticipating and balancing the needs of multiple stakeholders.
• Business Case Contribution - Ability to interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment; Analysis Skills, Business Cases, Cost Benefit Analysis, Make (Build) or Buy Analysis, Risk Analysis; Benchmarking and Market Analysis, Business Capability Analysis, Business Rules Analysis, Market Analysis, Root Cause Analysis, SWOT Analysis
• Business Data Modeling - Ability to conduct activities to collect, analyze, diagram (model), and report information and data flow, including state changes, to help make strategic decisions, achieve major goals, and solve complex problems; Data Modeling Languages, State diagrams
• Business Insights - Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals.
• Communicates Effectively - Developing and delivering multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
• Courage - Stepping up to address difficult issues, saying what needs to be said.
• Data Collection and Analysis - The ability and skill to determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making including proficient use of aligned software (e.g., Tableau, etc)
• Decision Quality - Making good and timely decisions that keep the organization moving forward.
• Develops Talent - Developing people to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals.
• Drives Results - Consistently achieving results, even under tough circumstances.
• Instills Trust - Gaining the confidence and trust of others through honesty, integrity, and authenticity.
• Manages Ambiguity - Operating effectively, even when things are not certain or the way forward is not clear.
• Nimble Learning - Actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Plans & Aligns - Planning and prioritizing work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
• Project Testing - Ability to design, create and administer the test scripts associated with the delivery of the project, ensuring that the requirements are being met from a functional, design and user experience perspective.
• Requirements Traceability and Management - Ability to manage the documentation, archiving, traceability, changes, and approvals of requirements throughout the project life cycle.
• Validate Requirements - Ability to identify assumptions in order to manage risk, assess the success with measurable evaluation criteria, and evaluate alignment of requirements with solution scope to support value delivery; Acceptance Letter, Acceptance Sign-off, Determine acceptance and evaluation criteria, Project Requirements Documentation, Project Requirements Validation Plan
• Verify Requirements - Ability to create the rules for requirements and design quality, perform verification activities, and maintain quality control.

Qualifications

• 8 years of related experience preferred

Skills

• Business Data Modeling
• Adaptive Mindset
• Business Case Contribution
• Cultivates Innovation
• Decision Quality
• Data Collection and Analysis
• Ensures Accountability
• Manages Complexity
• Nimble Learning
• Plans & Aligns
• Optimizes Work Processes
• Requirements Traceability and Management
• Situational Adaptability
• Validate Requirements
• Tech Savvy
• Verify Requirements
• Business Insights
• Action Planning
• Project Testing
• Application Development

Physical Demands/Working Conditions

Physical Demands Category: Office

Physical Demands/Work Environment/Travel Requirements: • Physical demands: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, hear, taste and/or smell; the employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. • Work environment: While performing the duties of this job, the employee is exposed to weather conditions prevalent at the time. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. • Travel required: As required by the position.

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