Business Intelligence Director
Alliance Franchise Brands•Plymouth, MI
•Hybrid
About The Position
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.
Requirements
- 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
- 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.
Responsibilities
- 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
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
