[Hiring] Senior Manager, Business Intelligence & Analytics Engineering @Cole Haan

Role Description

The Senior Manager, BI & Analytics Engineering leads the team behind business intelligence, analytics and reporting across Cole Haan — enterprise reporting, SAP S/4HANA reporting and data, the analytics backlog, and the data work that supports Retail, Supply Chain, Wholesale, Ecommerce and Finance. The role owns what is built and how it is built: technical approach, engineering standards, the development of the team, and the technical performance of the partners who build alongside it.

This is a hands-on technical leadership role. It requires enough command of data modeling, reporting design and query performance to specify work precisely, review what comes back, and judge whether something presented as complete and enough leadership to build that capability into the team rather than supplying it personally.

Core Accountabilities:

• Engineering Leadership
  • Own the technical approach: how reporting, models and data products are built, to what standard, by whom, and whether they are fit to release.
  • Own a named technical owner and a visible status on every active item.
  • Provide level of effort and the technical resources required for portfolio planning.
  • Coordinate internal, offshore, contract and partner capacity against the agreed plan.
  • Apply direct technical depth to challenge estimates, data models, report designs and build approaches.
  • Working knowledge of how AI is being applied to BI development.
• SAP S/4HANA Reporting and Stabilization
  • Lead reporting and analytics engineering and stabilization for SAP S/4HANA.
  • Ensure every reporting deliverable released has documented acceptance criteria and a reconciliation to source.
  • Identify upstream issues in transactional data, master data or configuration.
• Hands on Expectation
  • Work in the platform: design and code review, solving critical problems, and raising the standard of team output.
  • Not in scope: being carried on the plan as delivery capacity.
• Vendor and Partner Performance
  • Judge the work of analytics partners and contractors against acceptance criteria.
  • Translate statements of work into measurable deliverables, milestones and acceptance criteria.
  • Evaluate the sourcing model for capability adjustments.
• Team Leadership and Development
  • Lead, coach and develop a small team of experienced specialists.
  • Ensure each team member owns a defined domain.
  • Support workforce planning, role definition, recruiting and onboarding.
• Standing Platform Responsibility
  • Own the analytics estate as a continuing responsibility beyond stabilization.
  • Maintain a documented view of core measure definitions.
• Working with the PMO
  • Collaborate with the project manager on capacity planning and delivery timing.
  • Own the what and the how — technical feasibility, solution approach, and dependencies.
• Authority
  • Technical approach and engineering standards within the architecture and data standards.
  • Acceptance or rejection of partner and contractor deliverables.
  • Work allocation and prioritization across the BI delivery team.
• Role Boundaries
  • Own what is built and how it is built.
  • Enterprise data strategy, governance, architecture and AI enablement sit with the Senior Director, Data & Analytics.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in business intelligence, analytics, data or technology delivery.
• 3+ years leading technical teams, including senior individual contributors and partner resources.
• Hands-on depth in data modeling, semantic layers, SQL and reporting design.
• Demonstrated ownership of the technical execution and quality of enterprise reporting.
• Experience delivering reporting on an ERP platform, preferably SAP.
• Retail and wholesale process understanding across merchandising, inventory, order management and finance.
• Demonstrated management of partner and contractor performance.
• Experience coordinating distributed, offshore and contract development resources.
• Credibility with functional leadership and senior stakeholders.

Preferred

• Footwear, apparel or accessories brand experience; or an adjacent sector with a comparable retail and wholesale model.
• Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI, SAP BW, Fivetran, Alteryx or comparable platforms.
• Experience establishing data definition standards and governance practice with business functions.
• Exposure to AI enablement for analytics.
• Project-based travel up to 20 percent.

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Care
• Health Savings Account with Employer Contribution
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401(k) Retirement Plan with Employer Matching Contributions
• Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance
• Vacation Time
• Sick Time
• Paid Parental Leave
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Charitable Matching Gifts Program
• Holidays and Cole Haan Discounts

Paid Time Off

• Paid vacation days starting at 120 hours
• 11 paid company and personal holidays
• 3 volunteer days

Sick Leave

• Eligible non-exempt employees earn one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked.
• Eligible exempt full-time employees earn 2.67 hours of sick time each bi-weekly pay period.