Manager of Business Intelligence

Stronghouse•Oak Brook, IL

About The Position

Stronghouse is seeking a Manager of Business Intelligence to own and scale their analytics function. This is a builder-operator role where the individual will be responsible for growing the existing foundation into a best-in-class business intelligence platform that drives business decisions. The role involves partnering with Finance, Sales, Operations, and Marketing leadership to translate complex data into clear insights for growth strategy, sales performance, and investor-facing reporting. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, PE-backed environment with high expectations and tangible impact. Candidates should have experience building and scaling a data warehouse/lake and architecting the data layer for flexible analytics and AI use cases, moving beyond static dashboards to dynamic, queryable data in Power BI.

Requirements

7+ years of progressive analytics, FP&A, or business intelligence experience
2+ years in a leadership level role with ownership over analytics output
Demonstrated Power BI expertise - model building and dashboard development
Experience and knowledge working with programs such as Azure and/or Fabric to gather, organize, and report on data from multiple sources
Experience designing and managing data infrastructure: warehousing, ingestion pipelines, and data quality processes
Experience building or owning a data governance framework in a multi-system environment

Nice To Haves

Prior experience in a PE-backed, multi-unit, or high-growth company strongly preferred

Responsibilities

Build and own the company's centralized data infrastructure, architecting data ingestion, storage, and organization across the enterprise.
Lead the evaluation, cleaning, and interpretation of all incoming data sources, understanding what is captured, its meaning, and its trustworthiness.
Develop and maintain data quality processes to filter, standardize, and validate data before it reaches downstream reporting or decision-making.
Document data lineage and definitions to ensure a shared understanding of data across the business.
Own the architecture, maintenance, and ongoing development of the Power BI environment, including data models, dashboards, and reporting cadences.
Drive adoption of scalable, self-service analytics across the business.
Partner with IT and ERP/CRM system owners to ensure clean, reliable data flows from source systems into reporting layers.
Establish and enforce data governance standards, definitions, and a single source of truth.
Own and drive the company's data governance framework, establishing policies, standards, and accountability structures for data accuracy, consistency, and security.
Define and maintain a business data glossary for key metrics, KPIs, and data terms.
Implement access controls and data stewardship practices to protect sensitive data while enabling appropriate visibility.
Partner cross-functionally to embed governance standards into data creation, storage, and usage.
Automate data pipelines for financial reporting, eliminating manual pulls and reducing errors in forecasting and close processes.
Partner with the VP of Finance to ensure sponsor and board-facing outputs draw from a single, validated data source.
Build the data foundation for fast and repeatable scenario modeling and sensitivity analysis.
Partner with sales and operations leaders to track and improve performance across the customer lifecycle.
Build analytics tools for sales leadership to provide visibility into rep performance, pipeline health, conversion rates, and revenue trends.
Translate operational data into actionable insights and recommendations.
Partner with the marketing team to provide data-driven support for market sizing, competitive trends, and pricing strategy.
Build and maintain spend ROI frameworks for clear visibility into marketing investment returns by channel.
Surface market data and external signals to inform go-to-market decisions and territory prioritization.