Senior Manager, Data Analytics and Business Intelligence - Hybrid, High Point, NC

Continue to Grow with GXO. 

At GXO, we know our greatest asset is people like you - energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work. Your career matters to us because your passion and excitement will help keep our company moving forward.

As the Senior Manager, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence, you will be responsible to formulate strategies, build and manage business intelligence (BI) tools to deliver data, reports, information, intelligence, and insight in a way that is easy to digest by internal customers and cultivates the data-driven decision-making culture. As an individual contributor and leader, you will lead BI development to deliver BI products that provide actionable information and insight to people, and position GXO for higher efficiency and long-term growth and profitability.

Pay, benefits and more.

We are eager to attract the best, so we offer competitive compensation and a generous benefits package, including full health insurance (medical, dental and vision), 401(k), life insurance, disability and more.

What you’ll do on a typical day:

• Develop and execute an effective strategy and roadmap to advance the Finance BI landscape.
• Collaborate strategically with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to gather requirements, prioritize initiatives, and effectively communicate outcomes and trade-offs.
• Lead the design, optimize, and expand the BI platform for Finance (P2P, OTC, FP&A, accounting, etc.)
• Conduct in-depth analysis and documentation of data flows within the business, aligning and optimizing PowerBI data models to streamline critical business processes.
• Collaborate with IT and corporate systems’ data owners to ensure alignment with data sources, data pipelines, and data hosting and processing technologies, including data lakes.
• Develop a strategic plan to transition from traditional reporting and descriptive analysis towards advanced predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions.
• Continuously monitor the performance and usage of BI solutions, proactively address data discrepancies and issues, and provide ongoing education and training to end users.
• Experiment with and promote the adoption of emerging tools and methodologies to ensure compliance with best-in-class BI practices, supporting GXO's long-term profitability and growth.
• Lead by example in promoting BI transformation within other functions across the organization.
• Automate processes, proactively audit data, and enable self-service reporting for users outside of Finance, in areas such as planning, forecasting, and labor efficiency reporting.
• Define data dictionaries and standardize to ensure scalability and alignment with GXO master data.

What you need to succeed at GXO:

At a minimum, you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in fields of study including Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, Economics, Finance, or Accounting
• 5+ years of extensive experience in building financial and operational reports and BI tools for accounting, billing, and financial planning and analysis
• Advanced user of tools such as SQL, PowerBI, Power Query, Excel, Snowflake is a must.
• Analytical skills (statistical forecasting, regression analysis, etc)
• Proven ability to work autonomously as well as establish cross-functional work relationship
• Proven experience in a BI leadership role, preferably in a finance or related settings.
• Strong communication skills, create functional partnership, and lead sessions.

It’d be great if you also have:

• Project Management and Lean Six Sigma belt certification
• Experience with cloud platforms such as Snowflake or Google Big Query
• Ability to work with automation tools such as Airflow, Power Automate or RPA
• Familiar with standard machine learning models (such as forecasting) and programming tools including Python/R
• MBA or master’s degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or related field

We engineer faster, smarter, leaner supply chains.

GXO is a leading provider of cutting-edge supply chain solutions to the most successful companies in the world. We help our customers manage their goods most efficiently using our technology and services. Our greatest strength is our global team – energetic, innovative people of all experience levels and talents who make GXO a great place to work.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, disability, veteran or other protected status.

GXO adheres to CDC, OSHA and state and local requirements regarding COVID safety. All employees and visitors are expected to comply with GXO policies which are in place to safeguard our employees and customers.

All applicants who receive a conditional offer of employment may be required to take and pass a pre-employment drug test.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of personnel so classified. All employees may be required to perform duties outside of their normal responsibilities from time to time, as needed. Review GXO's candidate privacy statement here.