As the Business Intelligence & Data Manager, you will be leading a small team to deliver the platforms and tools to enable decision-relevant insights. You will be instrumental in shaping the BI roadmap journey and related technologies as we move from on-prem SSAS technologies into cloud-based options, utilising Power BI as our current visualisation tool.
Working closely with all areas of the business including manufacturing, procurement, planning and finance, you will be responsible for empowering the business with reliable and accessible data. You will also be part of the IT Leadership Team, influencing the overall company IT Strategy.
This is a great opportunity for someone looking to step up from a BI Engineer or BI Developer role to gain more management experience by leading a team and influencing strategy. This is an exciting time to join the IT & Business Systems team who are becoming an important enabler for the business and have initiatives underway for ERP transformation, Cybersecurity, AI and IoT factory of the future. Yeo Valley itself is a distinctive, ambitious and trusted manufacturing company that is committed to making great British dairy the right way, forever. We are passionate about feeding the nation with real, healthy organic food that doesn’t impact our planet.
This is a permanent role based in Highbridge in brand new spacious offices (decorated with a local twist!), only half an hour from Bristol and just off of the M5 Jn 22. The role will have opportunities for a mixture of on-site and working from home options, plus there is a great staff canteen!
Your responsibilities:
- To design, implement and manage the BI infrastructure and services, to deliver business data insights requirements in alignment to the IT strategy and roadmap.
- To ensure you and the BI team work closely and collaboratively with our business users to understand, qualify, design, build test and deliver their requirements.
- To migrate and enhance data and reporting from current to new ERP system.
- Provide direction for how Yeo Valley are moving, transforming, storing and retrieving data to enable the most efficient and effective use of technology for the business. Act as subject matter expert on all aspects of data analytics, mining, storage, interpretation and presentation with a view to designing and implementing Yeo Valley’s next generation of data analysis systems and supporting any relevant projects and initiatives.
- Recruit, support, develop, coach and inspire the in-house BI and Data team developing, enhancing and encouraging skills development and crossover to ensure the individuals are broadening skills and building resilience into the team.
- Ensure high levels of BI service within Yeo Valley including acting as a point of escalation for the Support and Technical teams and monitoring the overnight runs for issues, fault finding and resolution.
- Work in collaboration with and manage third party providers to ensure technologies and service are cost effective and Yeo Valley are getting the most out of the architecture and that the providers meet Service Level Agreements.
- Work in collaboration with the business to ensure best practice processes and tools are used to deliver data insights.
- Work with senior stakeholders and programme boards to deliver company KPI reporting
- Work closely with the Application Manager, Infrastructure Lead and Support Team Lead to ensure underlying infrastructure and applications are aligned and ensure changes and incidents are managed effectively.
- Business Intelligence development using the full Microsoft BI stack including SSIS, SSAS (SQL Server Analysis Services) multidimensional until transitioned to new future state.
- Development of Yeo Valley’s SQL data warehouse and development of ETL processes using SQL Server Integration Services until transitioned to new future state.
- Ability to work with business users to identify business requirements and translate these into technical solutions, formatting and manipulating data based on user requirements.
- Ensure the implementation of best practice BI and reporting governance.