Senior Power BI Developer

OIA Global is a $1 billion+ world-class logistics and packaging company that employs over 1,200 professionals in 28 countries. Our knowledgebase, solution design experience, and installed infrastructure give our customers the confidence and capability to extend their supply chains from emerging production areas to key commercial markets.

Summary: Senior Power BI Developer

The Supply Chain Management (SCM) division is adding a Sr. Power BI Developer to help deliver and support data and analytics solutions. SCM provides packaging and material sourcing solutions for some of the largest Footwear and Apparel companies in the world. The Power BI developer will help support the professionalization of SCMs reporting solutions and data infrastructure. This role reports to the Manager, SCM Reporting and Analytics and directly interfaces with internal teams and occasionally external customers.

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• None

Responsibilities

• Managing, developing, and implementing BI activities to maximize effectiveness and efficiency of BI products.
• Analyzing report usage, best practices, and product trends in the marketplace and developing strategies for BI product on research and analysis to implement appropriate end user BI consumption strategies and product design/implementation.
• Leading the strategic design and maintenance of business intelligence applications.
• Ensuring that the use of business intelligence applications enhances business decision making capabilities.
• Providing input to strategic decisions that affect the functional area of responsibility
• Resolving escalated issues arising from operations and requiring coordination with other departments.
• Ensuring that project/department milestones/goals are met and adhering to approved budgets as it relates to consumer usage (based on BI report usage metrics, aka user adoption and value).
• Gaining buy in from executives to improve efficiency and visibility in various departments within the company (freight, accounting, finance, packaging, design studio, materials) – break down barriers with business counterparts to ensure smooth product design/development/implementation.
• End-to-end product design/development/management to increase efficiency/visibility via:
• Meet with SME from these departments to gather as-is processes or gaps in visibility - gather requirements.
• Evaluate potential solutions for new product based on existing or potential datasets/flows.
• Work with data engineers, data visualization analyst, and QA to develop solutions to increase efficiency of current processes.
• Oversee roll out and adoption (training, troubleshooting, maintenance, SOPs).
• Provide continuous support to end users.
• Set up process for end users to submit bugs and resolve in timely manner.
• Maintaining log of product effort and resulting value to support ongoing product development and resulting value to the company.
• Working with marketing to advertise/evangelize the end user BI products to promote usage and adoption across the organization.
• Continuing to support efforts of existing reporting needs coming from C-level.

Qualifications

• Highly skilled in Power BI, including data modelling, DAX, report design, and performance optimization.
• Exposure to Power BI Paginated Report will be an added advantage.
• Able to independently debug and optimize code, with or without support.
• Strong ability to visualize data to “tell a story”, ability to choose most informative charts for data visualization
• Design and develop interactive Power BI reports to support overall solution functionality and provide actionable insights.
• Proven data visualization (Power BI) and analysis skills.
• Proven experience using databases and SQL queries to access and analyze data.
• Prefer a Degree (Bachelors or Associate) in business, IT, mathematics, statistics, apparel/textiles, manufacturing, or related field, OR equivalent work experience.
• Strong experience communicating and executing cross-functional goals and objectives
• Strong technical aptitude and demonstrated ability to quickly evaluate and learn new technologies.
• Proven track record defining, modelling, and helping to establishing best practices and procedures in demanding reporting environments.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to make executive level presentations and documentation.
• Effective project management skills including planning, organizing and administration of multi-functional work responsibilities to complete complex projects with competing deadlines.
• Ability to work within cross-functional teams, build effective working relationships and resolve issues.
• Ability independently navigate organizational complexities and obtain necessary resources to move initiatives forward.
• Ability to break down barriers with business counterparts to ensure smooth product design/development/implementation.
• Ability to identify opportunities, assign value to products and prioritize based on need and value.
• Experience with Python or R in data analysis and forecasting a plus.
• Experience providing technical mentorship and evangelization a plus.

Physical Requirements:

• Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer
• Ability to lift to 15lbs/5 kg
• Minimum to no travel required
• The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

OIA Global is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability. We offer an exciting and growth-oriented work environment, and OIA employees enjoy competitive salaries and excellent benefits.