Business Intelligence Head

About the Role:

We are looking for a Business Intelligence Head to build and lead the organisation's BI capability and transform data into a genuine decision-making engine for the business.

This is not a dashboard-only role. The mandate is to establish a trusted single source of truth, bring consistency to business metrics, diagnose performance gaps and enable leadership to make faster, better-informed decisions.

The role will initially involve building and managing a team of approximately four business analysts / business managers, subject to final organisation design.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and own the overall BI and analytics roadmap.
• Establish a reliable single source of truth for key business metrics.
• Define and standardise KPI definitions across functions.
• Understand business problems and translate them into analytical solutions.
• Build management dashboards and reporting systems linked to business decisions.
• Conduct root-cause analysis on business performance.
• Generate actionable insights across functions such as operations, finance, supply chain, marketing and sales.
• Build and manage the BI / analytics team.
• Define team structure, hiring requirements and delivery standards.
• Improve data quality, reporting reliability and analytical rigour.
• Work closely with senior leadership and functional heads.
• Create a regular BI operating cadence integrated with business reviews.
• Build a 12-month roadmap covering data foundation, reporting and advanced analytics.

What We Are Looking For:

• Senior experience in BI, Business Analytics or Analytics Leadership.
• Proven experience building or scaling a BI / analytics function.
• Strong people-management and team-building experience.
• Excellent business and commercial acumen.
• Ability to translate business questions into analytical frameworks.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, warehouses and BI architecture.
• Experience with dashboards, reporting and analytics platforms.
• Strong stakeholder management and executive communication.
• Ability to challenge assumptions and convert data into clear recommendations.
• Experience working directly with senior business / leadership teams.

Preferred Background:

Experience in FMCG, consumer, food, retail, D2C or another high-volume operating environment will be valuable.

Candidates from purely technical data-engineering backgrounds may not be suitable unless they also demonstrate strong business partnering and analytics leadership.

What Success Looks Like:

Within the first year, the successful candidate should have:

• Created a trusted single source of truth.
• Established clear KPI definitions and reporting governance.
• Built a high-performing BI / analytics team.
• Reduced dependency on fragmented manual reporting.
• Embedded analytics into regular management reviews.
• Demonstrated measurable business impact through data-led decision-making.

Why This Role?

This is a build-and-transform opportunity for a senior analytics leader who wants to move beyond reporting and create a data-driven operating system for a growing consumer business.