Product Owner, Data & Analytics

SunSource and its family of companies represent 270+ locations and 4,000+ employees making up one of North America’s leading value-add industrial distribution companies.  We provide customers with products and value-added solutions within Fluid Power, Fluid Process, Fluid Conveyance, Automation, General Industrial Components, and Industrial Repair. www.sun-source.com

Responsibilities and Qualifications

Key Responsibilities

Analytics & Data Focus Areas

- Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Product Ownership

- Power BI Reporting & Visualization Standards

- Drive Data Governance, Data Quality & Consistency

- Agile Delivery, Scrum Leadership & Backlog Prioritization

- Cross-Functional Business Partnership & Enablement

- Advancing Analytics Maturity across the Enterprise

Enterprise Analytics Strategy & Product Ownership

- Partner with FP&A, Strategy and Business Owners to advance our capabilities to support growth

- Develop and own the enterprise analytics strategy, including a multi-year roadmap.

- Serve as product owner for analytics, prioritizing the backlog and driving adoption.

- Establish standards for reporting, semantic models, data definitions, and data quality.

- Partner with business leaders to align analytics initiatives with strategic programs.

- Define and manage KPIs, dashboards, and insights that support enterprise objectives.

- Own the quality and consistency of enterprise reporting – reports and data

- Lead business teams on new capabilities to advance the business

- Lead a Data & Analytics Steering Committee to prioritize and govern data and analytics investments to meet the enterprise goals

Team Leadership & Delivery

- Lead, develop, and coach the BI Analyst team responsible for reporting, dashboards, UX design, and business insights.

- Ensure strong alignment between reporting, engineering, governance, and business stakeholders.

- Develop team structure, goals, and a high-performance analytics culture.

- Manage and build third party vendor partnerships for analytics delivery

- Manage and optimize the BI & Analytics budget

- Lead Scrum ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, and retrospectives.

- Manage capacity planning and ensure timely delivery of analytics solutions.

- Drive continuous improvement in development processes, automation, testing, and documentation.

Data Governance & Data Management

- Establish and lead the organization's data governance program.

- Define enterprise data standards, data quality policies, and metadata practices.

- Partner with business units to improve ownership of master data domains.

- Ensure scalable, governed data models that support enterprise-wide reporting.

- Improve trust, lineage, and transparency of enterprise data.

Business Alignment & Industry Expertise

- Understand key aspects of the distribution business model including pricing, margin, inventory, and sales.

- Develop insights that improve growth, margin, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

- Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on analytics opportunities and impact.

Leadership Behaviors & SunSource Mindset Requirements

- Must be able to manage a large program or project delivery from a tactical level, and provide guidance where necessary to sponsorship/leadership

- Must handle conflict resolution professionally.

- Must influence without authority in a highly matrixed environment.

- Must be able to work in an environment where things are not always clear and then be able to provide clarity

- Must master different communication methods and pivot quickly according to business needs.

Required Qualifications

- Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Analytics, Computer Science, MIS, Data Science, Engineering, or related field.

- 5+ years of experience in analytics, BI, or data engineering

- 2+ years leading analytics teams

- Expert experience with Power BI including DAX, semantic models, and visualization.

- Preferred experience with Databricks, SQL, and Lakehouse ETL/ELT pipelines.

- Experience serving as product owner for analytics or data-driven initiatives.

- Strong Agile/Scrum leadership experience.

- Excellent communication and executive presentation skills.

- Experience in Distribution or Manufacturing preferred.

- After hours availability and travel are required.

Key Competencies

Collaboration/Teamwork: Develops cooperation and teamwork while participating in a group of people, working toward solutions that generally benefit all involved parties.

Communication: Creates an atmosphere in which timely and high-quality information flows smoothly both up the organization and down, inside the organization; encourages open expression of ideas and opinions.

Customer Focus: Demonstrates concern for meeting internal and external customers’ needs in a manner that provides satisfaction for the customer. (“Customers” can be co-workers, peers, or management as well as external consumers of a service such as students, parents, or community members.

Energy/Drive for Results: Demonstrates concern for achieving or surpassing results against an internal or external standard of excellence. Shows a passion for improving the delivery of services with a commitment to continuous improvement. Consistently maintaining a high activity or productivity level and potentially sustaining long working hours.

Technical/Functional Expertise: Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge, skills, and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve one’s “customers” effectively. (Customers can be co-workers, peers, or management as well as external consumers of a service.)

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