Director, Data and Analytics 

As the Director, Data and Analytics you will be responsible for creating and executing a data and analytics strategy that supports the organization's digital transformation and business goals. You will lead and manage a team of data and analytics professionals who will provide insights and solutions for various business stakeholders. You will also oversee the data governance, quality, and security, as well as the technology capabilities and platforms, to enable data-driven decision making and innovation. This role requires strong leadership, communication, and analytical skills, as well as a passion for data and its value in driving business success.

Job Type: Exempt

Pay: Salary 

Benefits:

• Benefits Available and vary per position and location.

Are you a real go-getter looking for an amazing opportunity with a nationwide full-service utility contractor offering competitive wages and incredible benefits? Keep reading because this job might be for you!

Since 1928, Asplundh has been dedicated to safe, efficient, and innovative line clearance services for the utility industry. Reliable, uninterrupted power is an important service provided by the world's electrical utilities and Asplundh has the expertise to help keep the power flowing. Diversification over the years has opened up vegetation management services to other specialized markets such as municipalities, railroads, pipelines, helicopter vegetation services, and departments of transportation.

A family-owned and operated corporation headquartered near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Asplundh has grown to employ over 36,000 service professionals throughout the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities:

The Data and Analytics Lead has the primary enterprise accountability of the organization’s data and analytics (D&A) assets to drive value for business stakeholders. This includes creation and management of data and analytics strategy, and execution of related programs and practices that drive measurable business outcomes. This role involves establishing, leading, and operating the D&A function; developing talent and mature D&A culture; building trust and managing data; and evolving technology capabilities.

• Maintain authority and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance.
• Build partnerships across all functions to exploit data and analytics capabilities to maximize the value derived from data assets.
• Define data and analytics vision, strategy, and associated practices. Lead the creation of the organization’s data and analytics strategy in collaboration with the CIO and key stakeholders.
• Institute an enterprise governance and operating model for data and analytics that is consistent with the capabilities and competencies required to execute the strategy. Ensure inclusion of metric quantitative measurements that track success against defined goals.
• Foster the creation of a data-driven culture, related competencies, and data literacy across the enterprise. Lead these transformation efforts by developing D&A talent and maturing the capability of the organization.
• Oversee delivery models, methods, and practices for creation of data products and to ensure consistent application and use of data and analytics solutions.
• Establish and maintain trust in data assets by instituting governance mechanisms for data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications, and automated decision making.
• Embed security, risk, and compliance into the data governance model and leverage qualitative measurements to ensure adherence.

Additional Responsibilities

• Lead data-driven innovation for the enterprise, including investigation, adoption, and exploitation of artificial intelligence.
• Expand the organization’s analytical approaches, skills, and technologies, focusing on accelerating business value creation and transformation.
• Identify new kinds, types, and sources of trusted data to enable business value innovation throughout the organization.
• Create and oversee a centralized data management service to ensure quality, traceability, timeliness, usability, and cost-effectiveness.
• Define processes for the effective, integrated introduction of new data.
• Oversee the development and deployment of the enterprise’s data and analytics platform for digital business.

Key Activities

Business Value and Outcomes

• Identify key stakeholders and their goals. Organize, formalize, and prioritize your stakeholders and their wants and needs.
• Express business outcomes in terms of your stakeholders (e.g., in terms of revenue growth, or cost and risk reduction).
• Focus on and deliver business outcomes that tie to organizational objectives. Leverage strategic KPIs to measure the impact of actions.
• Connect with stakeholders to identify stakeholders’ unmet needs that expose new opportunities, and to redesign business processes and interactions as part of the digital transformation.

Data and Analytics

The Data and Analytics Lead needs to have a broad understanding of the full range of strategic data and analytics capabilities, and the ability to communicate these concepts, methods and techniques in ways easily understood by other stakeholders:

• Data and analytics strategy expertise: Acumen for strategic technology planning and execution, including policy development and maintenance.
• Data-driven culture change: Playing a critical role in driving and overseeing major business change to deliver enterprise value by managing major data-driven change initiatives.
• Data literacy: For example, the ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options. The ability to translate among the languages used by executive, business, IT, and other stakeholders.
• Analytics and business intelligence: For example, diagnostic, descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analytics approaches.
• Data science and AI: For example, graphical based analysis, machine learning and natural language processing.
• Data management: For example, data integration (ETL) or metadata.
• Information/data architectures: For example, the differences between data fabric, data mesh, data warehouse, data lake or data hub. Identify and manage the most important business information assets across the organization.
• Data structures: For example, structured, semi structured, and unstructured data.
• Data and analytics governance: For example, MDM, data quality and data stewardship practices. This extends into widening connected governance, which touches on data security, privacy access, and other compliance and regulatory governance practices.

Management and Operations

• Develop, manage, allocate and govern the annual budget for the office of the Data and Analytics Lead.
• Organize and lead a data and analytics team, and constantly improve the organization’s capacity to develop insights with advanced analytics.
• Define members’ responsibilities and accountabilities. Define job roles, recruit candidates, and then manage (directly or indirectly) a team of Data and Analytic professionals.
• Oversee development, publishing and maintenance of the organization’s data and analytics architecture and platforms, as well as a roadmap for its future development, ensuring that it matches and supports business needs.
• Partner with the CIO to scan the horizon for emerging data and analytics tools, skills, techniques, and technologies. Work together to ensure their timely introduction to further value creation in the organization.

Knowledge/Skills

The Data and Analytics Lead is a leader who knows the business aims and targets; industry domain knowledge; and D&A ideas, methods, and skills. The Data and Analytics Lead has excellent interpersonal and leadership skills with an emphasis on stakeholder involvement and communication. The Data and Analytics Lead will collaborate with other leads, from different functions, to support the data-driven vision and strategy across the organization.

Business acumen: For example, understanding business concepts, practices, and business domain language to engage in problem-solving sessions and discuss business issues in stakeholder language. Additionally, understanding business data structure, ownership, and use within the organization.

Demonstrated leadership: Proven track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions. Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities, build teams and consensus, get things done through others not directly under their supervision, and work ethically and with integrity.

Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills: Able to work across business lines at a senior level to influence and effect change to achieve common goals.

Communication and storytelling: Ability to effectively drive business, culture, and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment (e.g., conveying information to diverse audiences in a way that is easily understood and actionable).

Pre-Screen

• Upon offer, employees may be required to complete and pass a pre-employment drug screen, background, and/or MVR check.

Physical Requirements:

• Rarely: walking, kneeling, squatting, crawling, seeing distant, climbing on/off truck, climbing, lifting over 10 lbs. to 50 lbs., depth perception, color vision, lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, climbing ladders, balancing, lifting up to 10 lbs., lifting up to 50 lbs.
• Occasionally: standing, stooping, body twisting, gripping, reaching, range of motion, climbing stairs.
• Frequently: sitting, sense of touch, manual dexterity, speaking clearly, reading, hearing-speech range.
• Constantly: seeing.

About Us:

As a full-service utility contractor, Asplundh performs tree pruning and removals, right-of-way clearing and maintenance, vegetation management with herbicides, and emergency storm work and logistical support. Asplundh is the parent company of Asplundh Infrastructure Group whose subsidiaries provide overhead and underground line construction, planning and design, meter reading and AMR/AMI installation, electrical testing, and street lighting/traffic signal services. Asplundh also operates Rotor Blade Airborne Utilities Management, overhead electric distribution, and transmission lines using MD 500 helicopters.

Individuals must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.  Individuals with a disability who desire a reasonable accommodation should contact the ADA Coordinator at 1-800-248-8733, ext. 1339.

An Equal Opportunity Employer.