What are the responsibilities and job description for the Group BI Manager position at RELIANCE WORLDWIDE?
RWC is a market leader and manufacturer of water solutions for residential, commercial, and industrial applications. RWC’s portfolio of brands includes industry-leading brands: SharkBite® Push-to-Connect plumbing solutions; HoldRite® engineered plumbing and mechanical solutions; Cash Acme® control valves and John Guest® fittings and fluid dispense products; EZ-FLO™ and Eastman™ appliance connectors, supply lines, stop valves and gas connectors.
We embrace innovation and people who like thinking outside of the norm. If you are a person who is passionate about technology, loves being innovative and wants to be part of a high-growth company that is changing an industry, this could be the perfect position for you.
Role Responsibilities
- Working both independently and as part of a bigger IT team, provide BI solutions to support decision making across multiple global regions. That includes data warehousing, report writing, and facilitation of discussions around the data.
- Help business colleagues translate loose requirements into real data, work with the wider organization and regional BI resources to help formulate requirements.
- Work alongside 3rd parties to help transform requirements from the wider organization into actionable data and reports.
- Provide guidance and best practice methods to colleagues in different business functions around report writing in different BI tools.
- Take complete ownership over incident resolution in BI, closely align with the wider group IT team to ensure availability of BI systems. Act as the ultimate point of contact for any system availability queries in the BI technology space.
- Establish ways of working within BI for capturing ad-hoc requests, establish a clear way to report on workload and BI activities.
Key Skills
- Strong 3rd party vendor relationship management skills, ability to deliver initiatives by working hand-in-hand with consulting partners.
- Functional leadership skills, capability to own a key IT function.
- Solid understanding of BI technology and methodologies, including data warehousing, reporting, and analytics.
- Capability to work with non-technical colleagues and varying seniority of stakeholders.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong grasp of data manipulation, visualization, and presentation to key stakeholders.
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, business administration, a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Experience managing and coordinating with teams across multiple global regions.
- Experience with BI tools, both at visualization and a data warehouse level. SAP’s data analytics cloud and Datasphere experience preferred.
- Experience delivering projects involving stakeholders from multiple business functions.
- Experience in requirement analysis, gap analysis and preparation of functional and non-functional software requirements
