Business Intelligence Team Manager

BI Team Manager – Remote – Up to £75k

The Position

The Integral Business Intelligence (BI) Team Manager will be responsible for the BI team within Integral. The successful candidate will be responsible for operationally leading the Business Intelligence Team on a day to day basis; including the line management of Business Intelligence Analysts and working in close partnership with the Data Architecture Support Team, to ensure solutions are built using governed and sustainable processes.

They will be required to work at pace, leading development using agile working methodologies that enables an iterative approach to delivery. Through their use of agile working methodologies, the role will ensure Integral has a governed pipeline and backlog of work; ensuring all new initiatives are fully prioritised based on the priorities of the business and our clients.

Whilst a strong technical knowledge is essential it is equally important the candidate can inspire and lead a small team of Business Intelligence Analysts. They will be required to support the Business Intelligence Analysts to grow in terms of skills and expertise and to foster a culture of collaboration and shared learning.

The ability to work with business stakeholders at a senior level and understand requirements that can be transitioned into viable and governed analytical solutions is critical. The role will be leading complex conversations with business stakeholders; challenging needs and coaching the business to articulate their needs as opposed to stipulating solutions.

aging the transition from proof of concept to governed, sustainable solutions once a technique has been assessed as offering sufficient return on investment.

Major responsibilities:

• Day to day operational Business Intelligence workloads and line management of Business Intelligence Analysts
• Lead product development and implementation of standard development process.
• Translate requirements into effective business solutions.
• Ensure dashboards are built in line with published internal JLL data visualisation standards.
• Ensure dashboards are built using efficient and effective design techniques.
• Ensure dashboards meet the needs of the business; challenging the why, what and how elements of requests.
• Responsible for strategic direction of the business’s portfolio of dashboards and analytical solutions.
• Managing the pipeline of work; ensuring it is allocated to the most effective resource across the BI Team.
• Leading the Beta testing process of initiatives
• Ensuring iterative design processes are followed, providing regular feedback and engagement to the business.
• Owning the technical requirements of initiatives
• Oversee the pipeline of work for the Data Warehouse Support Team, ensuring the resource to support developments is utilized appropriately and effectively.
• Represent the Business Intelligence team within the change board process to ensure all data warehouse changes and deployments are documented, risks understood and signed off by the business.
• Represent the Business Intelligence team within the Business Change Review process; providing input into high level reviews of new requests and provide regular updates on BI developments/projects.
• Ensure all BI developments have been approved through the Business Change Review process as a business priority.
• Ensure all developments, products and processes are support by robust operating procedures and documentation.
• Providing personal development and coaching to analysts.
• Lead problem solving teams to develop recommendations based on data interpretation and analysis to transform behaviours and techniques.
• Promote success powerfully, such that our customers recognize the value of your work.
• Provide subject matter expertise for all data related processes and analyses.

Desirable Knowledge & Capabilities:

• A BI expert with knowledge of data visualisation and analytical techniques.
• Bring experience and best practice to bust silos and ensure effective utilization of data.
• Communication – Excellent presentation skills (verbal and written), Strong understanding of analytic/statistical concepts with the ability to explain them to others.
• Strategic Thinking – Ability to think broadly, create a shared vision, and embrace change as an opportunity.
• Client Management – Understanding client needs and setting and managing appropriate client expectations within system, project, or contract constraints all while providing exceptional and customer service, creating trust and transparency which enables integration
• Team-building -Key stakeholder and collaborators are geographically dispersed. Getting results from ad hoc groups of disparate people is critical.
• Proven team leadership success and ability to manage through influence.
• Experience of agile methodology.

Every day is different, and in all these activities, we’d encourage you to show your ingenuity.

Sound like you? To apply you need to be / have / demonstrate:

• Bachelor or master degree – BI, computer science, econometrics, operations research or statistics preferred, or equivalent working experience
• Minimum 3 years past work experience as a BI, business or data analyst required
• Fluent English
• Ability to inspire individuals direct reports.
• Ability to work with colleagues across the Business Intelligence and Technology Team, including those not directly working in a Business Intelligence field (i.e. Technology, Systems, PMO).
• Exceptional communicator.
• Experienced in working within a complex, corporate, environment.
• Inspire trust, adapt and learn.
• Ability to drive focus and excitement with teams.
• Ambitious and driven to win
• Consistently exceeds in performance targets and takes quick, corrective action when required.
• Ensure execution, drive targeted results, focus on customers and lead courageously.
• Bring extensive business experience acquired through previous work in complex, enterprise scale, organizations.
• A proven track record of delivery and understanding of the latest industry approaches.
• Able to drive innovation.
• Able to clearly position the JLL brand in the industry and raise its profile.
• Instils a proactive mindset that enables the organization to anticipate versus react.
• Alters the firm’s capabilities to achieve a higher degree of production.
• Lives in the future not the present.
• Inspires and motivates toward new and stretch opportunities.
• Ability to transfer knowledge and expertise to colleagues that enables and empowers them to grow and develop.
• Influence others, engage and inspire proactive collaboration, build talent, communicate effectively and build relationships. Emotional intelligence and strong presentation skills are required.