Sr Director, Business Insights

Our Enterprise Process Excellence team is on a mission to improve business outcomes and employee experiences by driving step-change improvements in critical enterprise processes, and the technology and analytics supporting these.

As a Sr Director, Business Insights, you will be responsible for developing and driving Waters' business insights strategy, leading the design and implementation of a business data strategy, architecture, and applications necessary to enable efficient and effective insights generation from data, business performance management, and cross-functional strategy deployment. In addition, you will be responsible for leading executive-level analytics. This will require you to lead a cross-functional team with experience in subject areas such as data visualization, analytics, and data engineering, while collaborating with dedicated, domain-specific global process owners to ensure that their work aligns with the overall strategy and architecture.

Lead a cross-functional team with capabilities in business analytics, data engineering, data science, and data visualization
• Define the business insights strategy, data strategy, and data architecture
• Define, implement, drive adoption of, and maintain the processes, applications, and analytics required to support generating and taking action on business insights, and deploying strategy
• Provide analytics solutions to efficiently and successfully identify business performance gaps, accelerate root-cause analysis, and track actions to address underperformance
• Support implementation of robust, high-quality executive-level analytics solutions
• Work with leaders and teams across the enterprise to craft the design of solutions being developed
• Deploy new strategies, architectures, processes, tools, and capabilities, supported with appropriate communication, training, and documentation to ensure full alignment and adoption
• Collaborate with stakeholders across the enterprise, e.g., with respect to data governance, and enterprise systems

• 15+ years dynamic experience in technology, information management, strategy, analytics, and data engineering across multiple functional areas (e.g., R&D, Operations, Sales, Marketing, HR)
• Experience developing data strategy and data architectures
• Strong conceptual and analytical problem solving skills
• Strong project management skills, experience implementing global programs
• Strong influencing skills, shown ability to work across organizational boundaries motivating change and harmonization across a global organization
• Results oriented mindset, operates with high sense of urgency. Consistent record of solving problems, breaking down barriers and delivering results ahead of schedule
• Ability to think strategically while also being diligent to details
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Experience building and leading cross-functional Agile / Scrum teams
• Product Owner and/or Scrum Master certifications a plus
• Design Thinking experience a plus
• Masters Degree in Computer Science or Engineering discipline

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We're the problem solvers and innovators that aren't afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We're all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.