Director National Data Analytics
Location Batavia, Illinois
Job Category Executive
Position Type | Full-Time
Ready to lead an award-winning team? As an ALDI executive, you are responsible for driving and implementing the key initiatives that keep our customers happy and ensure our business model evolves with the needs of the company. Immerse yourself in a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement with our growing and thriving organization.
Are you a dynamic and experienced professional looking to make a significant impact in the retail industry? Join the ALDI team, where we're seeking a talented Director of Data and Analytics to lead the charge in advancing our data capabilities and in developing reporting solutions that fully leverage our SAP ERP landscape. This role offers a unique blend of strategic leadership, national and international partnerships, and process optimization to maximize our impact to the business. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, have a deep understanding of data structures and reporting capabilities, and would enjoy shaping the future of our organization, apply today.
Position Type: Full-Time
Are you a dynamic and experienced professional looking to make a significant impact in the retail industry? Join the ALDI team, where we're seeking a talented Director of Data and Analytics to lead the charge in advancing our data capabilities and in developing reporting solutions that fully leverage our SAP ERP landscape. This role offers a unique blend of strategic leadership, national and international partnerships, and process optimization to maximize our impact to the business. If you're ready to take your career to the next level, have a deep understanding of data structures and reporting capabilities, and would enjoy shaping the future of our organization, apply today.
Position Type: Full-Time
Starting Salary: $227,250
Salary Increases: Year 2 - $244,000 | Year 3 - $266.750 | Year 4 - $298,000
Work Location: Batavia, IL
This role is eligible to participate in ALDI’s Hybrid Work Program, which allows remote work up to 2 days per week (i.e., work remotely up to 2 days per week; work in-office at least 3 days per week).
Duties and Responsibilities:
Must be able to perform duties with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Works closely with business leaders to provide insightful reporting solutions that enhance company performance and supervisory needs.
• Oversees the design and implementation of data management systems, including data warehouses and master data management solutions, and makes strategic decisions to support effective data collection and analysis.
• Drives projects and tasks to completion through decision making, effective prioritization, resource allocation, and cross-functional collaboration to ensure successful project outcomes.
• Leads the business planning and budgeting process for their area. Participates in planning activities, communicates business resource requirements and adheres to established cost thresholds for their area.
• Drives successful delivery of analytics initiatives by assessing risk, cross-functional alignment with stakeholders, and ensuring transparency in planning and execution processes.
• Provides strategic guidance to senior management on reporting-related decisions, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives.
• Makes decisions regarding resource allocation and project prioritization to optimize reporting processes.
• Recruits, relocates, and recommends qualified employees for their team; determines the appropriate training methods/courses for new hires.
• Determines the salary levels for newly hired or transferred employees reporting to them according to the established company wage structure.
• Understands the overarching company strategy while communicating and modeling the core values of the organization to create a sense of teamwork and membership among employees.
• Establishes, communicates and evaluates job responsibilities and performance expectations to their team to ensure mutual understanding of desired results.
• Partners with business units to identify data-driven opportunities for innovation, optimization, and value creation through the leveraging of data and analytics.
• Consults with leadership on the implications of company decisions on data and analytics.
• Consults with cross functional stakeholders to prioritize competing demands.
• Partners with leadership to evaluate initiatives focused on cost savings and productivity improvements.
• Works with global teams to align data governance objectives with business goals, ensuring consistency and alignment across international operations.
• Leads workshops and training sessions to enhance the understanding of data analytics and use case methodologies across the organization.
• Works closely with senior management and cross-functional teams to provide insights and recommendations based on reporting analytics.
• Consults with executives on the development of their team's strategy.
• Makes recommendations to executives on how to improve, design, and streamline applicable policies, procedures, and practices.
• Manages external consultants accordingly.
• Liaises with directors in other ALDI countries to facilitate the sharing of best practices.
• Drives projects covering a breadth of data analytics solutions, collaborating cross-functionally to build innovative data and analytic products, services, and processes for stakeholders.
• Leads initiatives to enhance reporting capabilities, including the integration of advanced analytics and visualization tools.
• Drives cross-functional collaboration to ensure alignment with internationally and nationally defined objectives.
• Drives the local implementation of global data and analytics products, ensuring solutions meet local requirements while aligning to international standards.
• Establishes and enforces data standards, best practices, and guidelines for data collection, storage, and usage across the organization.
• Collaborates with business units to identify data-driven opportunities for innovation, optimization, and value creation.
• Partners with all regional and functional business owners to understand and incorporate their strategic initiatives in planning exercises and in alignment with national and international goals.
• Executes the company’s data management strategy, data analytics usage, and data governance.
• Reviews the actual performance of business initiatives compared to projected results.
• Partners with Global data teams to align data governance objectives with business goals.
• Drives projects and tasks to completion through effective prioritization, resource allocation, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Drives the local rollout of global data and analytics products, implements the strategy of deploying modern reporting solutions and consistent reporting methodologies within the country.
• Leads the development and implementation of reporting strategies, frameworks and standards to ensure consistency and accuracy across all reporting outputs.
• Directs their team by ensuring that all projects and tasks meet business needs as well as expectations for quality and service.
• Establishes team objectives that align with the overall company strategy.
• Participates in International, National and Specialist Committees as a subject matter expert to establish best practice and business consistency.
• Identifies and develops company-wide and individual initiatives for their team.
• Complies with ALDI privacy and security requirements and policies if job responsibilities include possible access to confidential and/or sensitive information.
• Other duties as assigned.
Job-specific Competencies:
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
• Consistently demonstrates the ALDI Acts Competencies as outlined for the role.
• Gives attention to detail and follows instruction.
• Understands the history, strategy, organizational authority, interdependence of job duties, products, systems and services of the company.
• Ability to develop rapport, trust and open communication that enhances the growth and job performance of direct reports.
• Understands cost/benefit analysis.
• Ability to recommend, interpret, and/or apply company policies and procedures.
• Understands data structures and the technical tools used to fulfil business reporting needs.
• Expertise in data analytics, reporting, and/or business intelligence, with a deep understanding of their customer’s business functions.
• Understands data and analytics tools and practices, such as dimensional modeling, ETL and reporting tools, creation of new workflows, data governance, data processes, data warehousing, and structure and unstructured data.
• Understands the project management process and framework.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess data analytics needs and drive strategic decision-making.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively convey complex data insights to non-technical stakeholders.
• Leadership skills with a strong ownership mindset, being accountable for the success of data-driven initiatives.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools and programming languages used in data analytics.
• Analyzes and interprets data.
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI) and programming languages (e.g., Python, R) used in data analysis.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at various levels of the organization to gather requirements, build consensus, and drive alignment.
• Ability to adapt to evolving priorities, navigate ambiguity, and thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and build strong working relationships across the organization.
• Has strong business acumen and domain knowledge to understand business processes, challenges and opportunities, and align data analytics initiatives accordingly.
Education and Experience:
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a related field required.
• A minimum of 7 years of progressive external experience in Finance, Data Analytics, or Computer Science and retail operations required or at least 4 years of relevant experience at ALDI.
• ALDI District Manager Division, Executive Manager, AHEAD District Manager, National Services Manager or Director experience required for internal candidates.
• Completion of the ALDI LEAD (Leadership Enhancement And Development) program (for internal candidates) or equivalent combination of external leadership experience and training required.
• Master's Degree in Finance, Computer Science, Data Engineering or a related field preferred.
• Experience managing a department required.
• A minimum of 5+ years of project management experience preferred.
• Experience in data and analytics including dimensional modeling, ETL, reporting tools, development of data products, data governance, data warehousing, data protection, and/or structured and unstructured data preferred.
• Or, a combination of education and experience providing equivalent knowledge.
Physical Requirements:
• Work may be performed in an office, remote office or a combination of both where a computer and office equipment may be used as needed to perform duties.
• Regularly required to sit, reach, grasp, stand and move from one area to another.
• Constantly and repeatedly use keyboard/mouse.
• Occasionally required to push, pull, bend, lift and move up to 25 lbs.
Travel:
• International & Domestic travel required.
• Up to 25%.
ALDI offers competitive wages and benefits, including:
- 401(k) Plan
- Company 401(k) Matching Contributions
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- PerkSpot National Discount Program
In addition, eligible employees are offered:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental & Vision Insurance
- Generous Vacation Time & 7 Paid Holidays
- Up to 6 Weeks Paid Parental Leave at 100% of pay
- Up to 2 Weeks Paid Caregiver Leave at 100% of pay
- Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Life, Dependent Life and AD&D Insurance
- Voluntary Term Life Insurance
ALDI is committed to equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. As a proud Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE), we do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, religion, sex, sexual stereotyping, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, military or veteran status, pregnancy (which includes pregnancy, childbirth, and medical conditions related to pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding), or any other protected characteristic. Employment may be contingent upon ALDI's receipt of an acceptable and job-related drug test, motor vehicle report, and/or reference check, as applicable and permissible by law.
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