Director of Business Intelligence

Hillenbrand • Cincinnati, OH

1d • Remote

About The Position

As the Director, Business Intelligence, you’ll set directions for how Hillenbrand Corporate uses data to improve execution, measure performance, and scale decision-making. This is a remote role, ideally based in the U.S. Midwest, with broad visibility across enterprise priorities. We’re a global industrial company with a portfolio of businesses that serve customers across a range of end markets. You’ll help strengthen trust in data, accelerate insight-to-action cycles, and enable sustainable growth through disciplined, repeatable analytics. You’ll also help us live our Core Values: WIN AS ONE, PARTNER WITH POSSIBILITY, MAKE IT MATTER, and DRIVE TO DELIVER.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Analytics, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 10+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data roles, including 5+ years leading teams and/or enterprise programs.
• Hands-on expertise building and operating solutions with ADF, Databricks, Azure SQL technologies, and Microsoft Power BI in production environments.
• Experience designing and managing enterprise data pipelines, data models, and semantic layers that scale across multiple domains and stakeholder groups.
• Working knowledge of data governance and data quality practices, including access controls, stewardship, lineage concepts, and compliance-minded delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to manage a BI portfolio, prioritize work based on impact, and deliver complex initiatives with disciplined execution.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, including translating technical topics into clear decisions, tradeoffs, and outcomes.
• Sound judgment, integrity, and a continuous improvement mindset, with a practical approach to problem-solving and teamwork.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver an enterprise business intelligence (BI) strategy that aligns to digital transformation goals, with clear success measures and an actionable roadmap.
• Lead and mentor a cross-functional BI team across data engineering, Power BI development, analytics, and project delivery, using consistent standards, coaching, and performance management.
• Partner with business and technology leaders to identify high-value analytics opportunities, translate needs into scoped work, and drive adoption through practical change management.
• Oversee modern data engineering across Microsoft Azure, including Azure Data Factory (ADF) and Databricks, to ensure secure, reliable ingestion, transformation, and orchestration.
• Guide data platform architecture and reusable data product patterns, including lakehouse and medallion approaches, to improve scalability, cost management, and time to insight.
• Standardize Power BI semantic models, dashboards, reporting patterns, and workspace design to enable self-service analytics while protecting performance, governance, and consistency.
• Run BI program governance across intake, prioritization, delivery, vendor coordination, and executive communication, focusing on measurable outcomes, risks, and return on investment.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director