Key Responsibilities: Inspire and Lead High-Performing Teams: Cultivate a culture of trust, collaboration, and accountability by mentoring team members, setting clear goals, and fostering professional growth across diverse technical and business functions. Foster an environment of continuing education and career development for team members that includes both internal and external relationship building and understanding of business operations. Manage daily team operations, including task assignments, workload balancing, and performance monitoring. Conduct regular team meetings to review progress, address challenges, and align priorities. Provide regular updates to leadership on team status. Drive Clear and Effective Communication: Act as a central communication hub between technical teams, business stakeholders, and executive leadership—translating complex technical concepts into actionable business insights and aligning priorities across the organization. Communicate project status, timelines, and outcomes clearly and effectively. Communicate system updates, changes, and benefits to stakeholders at all levels of the organization. Business Alignment: Implementation of business system improvements that support organizational goals, ensuring initiatives are well-communicated, properly resourced, prioritized, and effectively executed. Project and Change Management: Guide teams and stakeholders through change management processes with empathy and clarity, promoting user adoption and minimizing disruption through proactive communication and training. Facilitate requirements gathering sessions and translate business needs into actionable analytics initiatives. Develop project plans, allocate resources effectively, and coordinate with internal and external teams and stakeholders. Analytics Strategy & Oversight: Work with leadership to align and evolve team capabilities in line with the strategic goals of the organization. Guide the development and deployment of data pipelines, ETL processes, and validation methods for the delivery of curated datasets to be consumed by our internal stakeholders building reports and advanced analytics solutions for business insights. Aligning with the enterprise data strategy, ensure consistency in data modeling, visualization standards, and documentation across the team. Promote alignment with the overall enterprise data strategy and industry best practices in analytics design, performance optimization, and user experience. Data Governance & Quality Assurance: Support the Data Governance team and data governance initiatives by enforcing standards for data integrity, security, and compliance. Collaborate with IT, compliance, and data governance teams to ensure adherence to regulatory requirements (e.g., GDPR). Monitor and improve data quality processes, including validation, cleansing, and enrichment. Innovation & Advanced Analytics: Encourage the exploration and adoption of emerging technologies and methodologies (e.g., AI, machine learning, cloud analytics). Evaluate the impact of analytics solutions and recommend enhancements. Documentation & Training: Ensure comprehensive documentation of BI solutions, processes, and governance protocols. Promote data literacy and provide training to stakeholders on BI tools and data interpretation. Vendor Relationship Management: Act as the primary point of contact for external vendors and consultants. Manage relationships with software vendors, ensuring optimal service delivery and adherence to contracts. What does it mean to be part of Woodward? It means contributing to what matters most in your career, in your community and around the world. It means being a part of rewarding experiences, where innovation, collaboration and problem-solving are at the heart of what we do. Explore our open positions and apply today. Woodward is the global leader in the design, manufacturing, and service of energy conversion and control solutions for the aerospace and industrial equipment markets. Together with our customers, we are enabling the path to a cleaner, decarbonized world. Our innovative fluid, combustion, electrical, propulsion and motion control systems perform in some of the world’s harshest environments. At Woodward we have created a culture that appreciates and values the contributions of every member. We are a global team of curious, innovative problem-solvers who commit our knowledge, resources and technical expertise to the challenges associated with reducing emissions, enabling alternative energy sources and increasing efficiency, always innovating for a better future. Woodward is working with our customers to solve some of the world’s biggest energy challenges. This important work needs more than just the brightest technical minds. It requires talented and committed manufacturing professionals, accountants, supply chain managers, human resources experts, information technology specialists and many more. We are looking for dedicated people who want to learn and grow in a supportive environment that fosters collaboration, innovation and inclusion.