Senior Manager- Enterprise BI

Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (ACT) is a global Fortune 200 company. A leader in the convenience store and fuel space, it has footprints across 31 countries and territories. Circle K India Data & Analytics team is an integral part of ACT’s Global Data & Analytics Team and the Senior Manager- Enterprise BI will be a key player on this team that will help grow analytics globally at ACT.

The hired candidate will partner with multiple departments, including Global Marketing, Merchandising, Global Technology, and Business Units.

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Department: Global Data & Analytics

Location: Cyber Hub, Gurugram, Haryana (5 days in office)

Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time (40 Hours)

Reports To: Director of Global Analytics & Data Science

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We are seeking an experienced individual to lead design, development, and maintenance of BI solutions that drive business insights. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with Power BI, and UI/UX design principles to enhance user experience and interface for business reporting. This role will require working closely with business stakeholders to provide data-driven insights that influence decision-making at an enterprise level. You will lead a distributed team of BI professionals including engineers, developers, analytics.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather reporting needs and translate them into effective BI solutions
  
• Own the BI solution architecture, ensuring alignment with enterprise data platforms (e.g., Azure Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake)
  
• Deep understanding of data modelling techniques, ETL/ELT processes, and database technologies (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, cloud-based data warehouses like Snowflake, Databricks,)
  
• Experience with various BI and analytics tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, looker)
  
• Experience with cloud-based BI and analytics services (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP) is highly desirable
  
• Excellent SQL skills and experience in optimizing complex queries
  
• Understanding multiple data sources and putting together practical and viable data models to support analytical analysis. This would include understanding data mapping and translation from source to target state
  

• Oversee end-to-end design, development, and deployment of scalable dashboards, semantic models, and advanced data visualizations using Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
  
• Managing a backlog of work for the team while also working with the team to effectively move through our backlog
  
• Define and enforce standards for report catalogue and governance framework for triage/decommission
  
• Work closely with business teams and engineering to ensure seamless data integration and accessibility
  

• Tune complex DAX, SQL queries, power query and data models for performance across large retail datasets
  
• Implement and monitor BI SLAs and refresh strategies, ensuring high availability and consistency
  
• Define performance baselines for visual loads, dataset refresh times, and user concurrency
  
• Optimize Power BI dashboards for performance, including query optimization, data caching, and report rendering
  
• Develop and implement best practices for Power BI development, deployment, and maintenance
  

• Automation C Innovation: Identify opportunities to automate reports, improve efficiency, and enhance visualization techniques
  
• Lead implementation of CI/CD pipelines for BI (e.g., using Git, Azure DevOps, or Power BI deployment pipelines)
  
• Drive standardization and templating of visuals, themes, and KPI frameworks across the org
  

• Develop and standardize programming code for analytics solution and leverage version control systems
  
• Follow industry standards in coding solutions and follow programming life cycle to ensure standard practices across the project
  
• Structure hypothesis, build thoughtful analyses, develop underlying data models, and bring clarity to previously undefined problems
  

• Lead a distributed team of 5�15 BI professionals including engineers, developers, and analysts, product owners
  
• Define KPIs for delivery, report usage, and business adoption
  
• Drive stakeholder alignment across tech and business to ensure BI initiatives are outcome-driven and tightly integrated with business processes
  
• Stay updated on reporting trends, and emerging technologies that could improve the reporting process
  

• Bachelor�s degree required, preferably with a quantitative focus (Statistics, Business Analytics, Data Science, Math, Economics, etc.)
  
• Master�s degree preferred (MBA/MS Computer Science/MTech Computer Science, etc.)
  

• 10+ years of BI experience with deep expertise in Power BI, Tableau, or similar tools
  
• 3+ years managing technical BI teams in an enterprise
  

• Advanced skills in Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power Query, DAX, SQL, and dimensional modelling
  
• Strong understanding of data architecture concepts, including data Lakehouse,
  
• Hands-on experience with Azure (e.g., Data Factory, Synapse, Key Vault, ADLS Gen2),
  
• Databricks, or Snowflake
  
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment with people at all levels,
  

• Delivery Excellence
  
• Business disposition
  
• Social intelligence
  
• Innovation and agility
  
• Purposeful leadership
  

• Knowledge of governance frameworks for KPI alignment, report standardization, and data security
  
• Exposure to Python, Spark, SQL for BI-related data wrangling or integration
  
• Familiarity with Agile / DevOps delivery models and tools (JIRA, Confluence, Git)
  

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