Business Intelligence Director
The Business Intelligence Director sets the strategy, vision and policy for managing the day-to-day strategic and tactical operations of the business intelligence (BI) teams. He/She holds responsibilities associated with historical data sourcing and preparation, data storage, reporting, analytics, data exploration and information delivery. He works with senior management to understand and prioritize data and information requirements. He is responsible for setting up the BI Strategy within the organization. He oversees the development of testing methodology and criteria, standards, policies and procedures for the structure and attributes of the business intelligence tools and systems. He oversees budgeting and planning. He manages a team and is proficient in the analytics tools and techniques required by the organization. He is also familiar with the relevant software platforms on which the solution is deployed on. The BI Director has the ability to adopt a broader perspective and display analytical thinking for BI solutions. He is able to influence key stakeholders and spearhead a data driven approach to resolve business issues.
Skills and Competencies
Technical Skills & Competencies
Generic Skills & Competencies
Critical Work Functions and Key Tasks
• Outline the organisation’s business intelligence vision and strategy
• Oversee ongoing development and operations of BI architecture
• Establish approach for identifying business and information needs to enhance
decision-making, polices and processes
• Provide rationale, business cases and return on investment (ROI) models
to get buy-in on the BI investment
• Provide thought leadership to stakeholders in determining which BI solutions will enable the
enterprise to achieve defined business goals
• Establish guidelines and criteria to direct historical data analytics, architecture, and technology
• Advise on processes and procedures for gathering of operational data to examine
past business performance
• Set guidelines for appropriate structuring and enrichment of data
• Provide BI insight updates and tactical, actionable recommendations
to senior leaders and clients
• Determine key messages to communicate from analyses and oversee
the creation of a narrative for storytelling
• Define the structure and tools to be applied in conceptualisation,
design and building of visual dashboards and graphs
• Develop standards, policies and procedures for the form, structure
and attributes of the BI tools and systems
• Create long-term data governance initiatives that serve to improve data quality
across all systems over time
• Provide guidance on best practices related to BI data governance
• Review operational strategies, policies and targets across teams and projects
• Develop strategies for resource planning and utilisation
• Review the utilisation of resources
• Oversee the development of learning roadmaps for teams and functions
• Establish performance indicators to benchmark effectiveness of learning
and development programs against best practices
• Implement succession planning initiatives for key management positions