Director of Business Intelligence

As the Director, Analytics Products, you’ll shape how Hillenbrand turns enterprise data into trusted insight that leaders can act on. You’ll work remotely from the U.S. Midwest in the Eastern Time Zone, partnering across functions to improve KPI consistency, reporting confidence, and decision-making at scale. We design, manufacture, and support highly engineered industrial solutions for customers worldwide. Your work will strengthen how teams align on performance, measure progress, and grow responsibly over time.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

• Lead an enterprise analytics product strategy that connects business priorities to scalable business intelligence (BI) and reporting capabilities, and that improves decision-making and performance measurement.

• Drive roadmap and intake conversations by clarifying outcomes, defining scope, prioritizing work, and setting adoption expectations across executive and functional stakeholders.

• Translate operational intent into governed analytics solutions by aligning KPI definitions, business rules, and semantic standards across finance, operations, supply chain, and commercial teams.

• Resolve reporting discrepancies by guiding cross-system investigation, reconciliation, and root-cause analysis with data engineering, BI, and architecture partners.

• Ensure source-to-report credibility by shaping how data lineage, metric logic, and semantic models are documented, communicated, and maintained for enterprise use.

• Promote trusted self-service and modern analytics adoption by defining usage standards, enabling stakeholder readiness, and reducing friction in how teams access consistent metrics.

• Lead business validation and change enablement by facilitating decisions, aligning on tradeoffs, and driving user acceptance so enterprise dashboards and reports reflect true business intent.

TEAM:

• You’ll partner across finance, operations, commercial teams, and technology groups, including data engineering, BI, and enterprise architecture, to build shared understanding and consistent outcomes. You’ll create an environment where teams Win As One through clear standards, respectful debate, and inclusive collaboration that helps people do their best work.

THE EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES NEEDED:

• Experience leading enterprise analytics, BI, executive reporting, or analytics product initiatives in a complex, multi-system environment.

• Demonstrated ability to translate business processes into KPI definitions, reporting standards, and semantic alignment that hold up across functions.

• Strong systems thinking, including comfort reasoning about ERP reporting, cross-system impacts, data lineage concepts, and source-to-report dependencies.

• Proven capability to lead reconciliation and discrepancy resolution by framing the problem, guiding investigation, and driving alignment on the “right” metric.

• Working knowledge of Power BI, SQL, and data modeling concepts sufficient to earn credibility in technical discussions and make sound product decisions.

• Strong stakeholder leadership skills, including executive communication, facilitation, and the ability to resolve disagreements over KPI logic and governance.

• Business acumen gained through exposure to finance, operations, manufacturing, supply chain, commercial operations, or enterprise operations, with curiosity to learn beyond one domain.

• Sound judgment, accountability, and an improvement mindset that supports disciplined execution, clear documentation, and sustained adoption over time.

If you’re interested in joining the team, submit an application to be considered. #LI-SC1