Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Dale WorkForce Solutions is seeking a Head of Enterprise Data & Analytics to modernize the company's enterprise technology foundation. This role involves leadership over the data and analytics program, ensuring alignment with ERP consolidation and establishing a centralized data governance model.
Responsibilities
- Own and execute Enterprise Data & Analytics strategy, ensuring alignment with ERP consolidation and the company's long term operating model
- Translate enterprise business priorities (growth, margin, working capital, portfolio optimization) into decision driven analytics use cases with measurable value
- Lead the progression from initial pilot to enterprise rollout across all divisions, including roadmap, phasing, and operating model definition
- Serve as the owner of the enterprise lakehouse architecture, including: Data ingestion (ERP, CRM and other sources), Microsoft Fabric and Databricks platform strategy and validation, Core medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold) and semantic models
- Ensure analytics are decoupled from transactional systems, enabling cross ERP, cross division insight during and after ERP migrations
- Evaluate and govern the responsible use of AI / advanced analytics within the enterprise platform
- Establish and enforce an enterprise data governance model that prevents metric fragmentation while respecting appropriate BU autonomy
- Define and institutionalize: Enterprise KPI definitions and ownership, Customer, product, and end market taxonomies, Data quality, certification, and approval processes
- Chair or co lead enterprise Data Governance Steering forums with senior functional leadership
- Oversee delivery of enterprise and division level analytics assets, ensuring reuse of certified KPIs and consistent semantic models
- Ensure analytics investments possess tangible, quantified business cases tied to revenue growth, margin protection, cost reduction, and/or working capital improvements
- Track adoption, usage, and realized ROI across the enterprise
- Build and lead a federated Enterprise Data & Analytics organization, including: Central enterprise architecture, governance, and enablement teams, Matrix leadership of divisional analytics contributors aligned to enterprise standards
- Define the internal FTE model and partner strategy required to scale enterprise analytics sustainably
- Act as a senior leader within the IT Leadership Team, influencing across functional and divisional boundaries
Skills
- 15+ years of progressive leadership in enterprise data, analytics, or digital transformation roles
- Proven experience building and scaling enterprise data platforms in complex, decentralized organizations
- Hands on leadership experience with ERP-adjacent analytics (SAP, Oracle, or equivalent)
- Demonstrated ability to establish enterprise data governance and KPI standards across autonomous business units
- Strong executive communication skills, including board and CEO level presentations and value articulation
- Experience in global industrial, manufacturing, or diversified portfolio companies
- Direct experience with Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Azure data services, or comparable cloud platforms
- Track record of translating analytics into measurable financial impact (revenue growth, margin improvement, cost reduction)
- Experience scaling analytics through federated or CoE based models
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