Director of Business Analysis
Salt Lake, UT 84150 United States
Job Description
- The Director of Business Analysis plays a key role in driving Client ability to understand its customers and to develop actionable strategies driving innovation and improvement at site.
- The Director is primarily responsible for leading the team that measures and monitors the overall performance and health of client and tracks key strategic initiatives.
- This position will proactively identify trends and business opportunities by bringing insight through detailed data analysis which will allow for informed strategy and business development.
- They will lead the development and maintenance of standardized analysis, performance metrics and measurement.
- The Director will manage the operationalizing and automating of all capabilities to ensure secure, supported, and scalable operations solutions.
- This role entails outstanding business to technical translation, structured yet creative thinking, cross-functional collaboration, hands on advanced analytical methods, and managing a team of analytics professionals.
- The Director operates with considerable independence, working closely with senior leadership, their peer groups, and key stakeholders to deliver high quality, credible analyses.
- In this role, they will lead a team designing and building data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support business analytics. Ensures client adheres to all reporting and compliance regulations.
- Promotes a data-driven culture and alignment between business and technology.
- Oversees mission-critical operations applications team to ensure seamless user experience between applications and day-to-day core business functions. Manages ridership collection equipment and processes to ensure accurate and timely reporting of ridership data.
- Provides leadership, vision and professional development for team members and exhibits living the client Way.
Minimum Qualifications:
EDUCATION/TRAINING
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Master’s Degree in Business Administration, Information Systems, Engineering, Data Analysis, Science or equivalent.
EXPERIENCE
- Five years progressive leadership experience in operations research, quantitative analysis, performance management, project management, and business development.
- Strong background in data analysis tools and information systems preferred.
- Demonstrated experience in:
- Developing and implementing strategic plans and performance standards that are aligned with organizational strategies.
- Translating market research results to design an integrated transit system.
- Conducting complete and detailed analysis and documentation of business processes and data flows.
- Designing business intelligence solutions and developing decision-support tools for senior management and operations staff.
- Managing technical and operational projects that involve cross-departmental teams to achieve desired results.
- Consulting experience in board and corporate level decision-support, business process redesign and improvement.
- Budget management experience.
- Experience in process auditing and improvement, using quality management principles (e.g. Lean, Agile, ISO 9001).
- Experience in hiring, development, and retention of diverse talent that makes a strong, positive impact on the organization.
KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Understanding of transit organization and systems (preferred)
- Designing performance standards, setting baseline measurements, implementing standards, and performing root-cause analysis.
- Current methodologies for collecting, transforming, analyzing, and interpreting data to actionable insight. (R, Python, SPSS, SAS, Minitab, etc.)
- Database and data warehouse design, data cleansing concepts (ETL), user acceptance testing, and data definition/data manipulation languages.
- Strong problem solving and decision-making skills
- Demonstrates an understanding of business priorities.
ABILITY
- Lead, manage and support effective change management
- Exhibit behavioral styles that convey confidence and command respect from others; makes a good first impression and represents client in alignment with our values
- Manage time effectively and prioritize work and conduct activities in an organized manner
- Execute strategy effectively across the business while maximizing customer satisfaction
- Negotiate and resolve complex and sensitive project and team issues with diplomacy and persuasiveness.
- Present technical information to a non-technical audience
- Apply technical analysis and tools to complex business problems and identify solutions to improve the operational performance.
- Think strategically about transportation issues and creatively in research and statistical methods.
[client reserves the right to determine the equivalencies of education and experience.]
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