Director, Data Enablement

Kimco Realty•Houston, NY

About The Position

The Director, Data Enablement will lead how Kimco defines, governs, and uses data. This role oversees the enterprise data governance framework, the Kimco metric dictionary, and data product standards. The Director will guide the company’s move to BI reporting and ensure its data is ready to support AI and automation. The position is part of Business Enablement within Kimco’s Office of Innovation & Transformation. The team partners with business leaders and technology teams to reimagine how work gets done and deliver digital solutions that create measurable value. The Director also partners with Technology, Engineering, and business teams on requirements and priorities, and communicates progress and decisions to senior leadership in clear business terms.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
At least 7 years of experience in data governance, analytics, data management, or business intelligence, including at least 3 years leading data strategy, governance, or enablement initiatives.
Proven experience building a data governance framework and setting enterprise metric definitions.
Experience defining and managing business-facing data products.
Hands-on analytical experience with BI tools, semantic models, and governed shared datasets.
Experience leading or supporting reporting migrations or platform adoption across business teams.
Strong communication skills and ability to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.

Nice To Haves

Experience in REITs, real estate, financial services, private equity, or a related industry.
Experience with MRI or Salesforce.
Experience with Workday.
Experience with Microsoft Fabric and Microsoft Purview or similar governance tools.
Experience preparing data for AI, machine learning, or automation use cases.

Responsibilities

Shape and execute Kimco’s data strategy, combining internal and external data sources to produce new insights and managing data vendor relationships.
Establish and maintain a practical data governance framework, including ownership, stewardship, decision rights, and data quality standards.
Manage the Kimco metric dictionary and drive agreement across functions on core measures such as occupancy, renewal rent growth, and NOI.
Define reusable data products across functions, including their purpose, users, business rules, and quality expectations.
Track the adoption, reuse, and business impact of data products.
Lead business readiness for the Power BI migration, including playbooks, the order teams move in, certified data models, and reporting standards.
Ensure data behind AI agents, automation, and advanced analytics is clean, governed, and consistently defined.
Partner with Technology, Engineering, and business teams on requirements and priorities.
Communicate progress and decisions to senior leadership in clear business terms.
Perform other duties as assigned.