BI Analyst II

Overview

The Business Intelligence Analyst plays a key role in transforming data into actionable business insights that drive commercial performance and strategic decision-making. This role partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Unit leaders to provide data-driven insights that support commercial performance and strategic decision-making.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with business acumen and can effectively translate complex data into meaningful recommendations for stakeholders. This position requires experience working with enterprise data environments, developing reporting solutions, and performing data analysis using modern analytics tools.

• Develop, maintain, and enhance Power BI dashboards, reports, and visualizations.
• Create scalable reporting solutions that provide visibility into key business performance metrics.
• Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and alignment with business definitions.
• Support recurring business reviews and executive reporting processes.

• Conduct ad hoc and strategic analyses to identify trends, opportunities, and business risks.
• Analyze sales, marketing, customer, product, and market data to support decision-making.
• Translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
• Present findings and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand analytics needs.
• Partner Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Unit leaders.
• Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting and analytical solutions.
• Serve as a trusted advisor by providing data-driven insights and recommendations.

• Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze data.
• Work with enterprise data platforms and data engineering teams to support reporting needs.
• Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities.
• Contribute to the development of reporting standards, documentation, and best practices.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field.
• 3+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, reporting, or a related role.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
• Experience developing reports and dashboards using Power BI or similar visualization tools.
• Experience working with modern cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse, or equivalent.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.

• Experience applying market, customer, competitive, or commercial insights to business decision-making is preferred.
• Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM platforms.
• Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages.
• Experience working within life sciences, healthcare, technology, or other B2B commercial environments.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) is a global leader in life sciences and diagnostics, dedicated to accelerating the benefits of pioneering science through analytical technologies, informatics, and service. With a focus on regulated, high-volume testing environments, our innovative portfolio harnesses deep scientific expertise across chemistry, physics, and biology. We collaborate with customers around the world to advance the release of effective, high-quality medicines, ensure the safety of food and water, and drive better patient outcomes by detecting diseases earlier, managing routine infections, and combating antibiotic resistance.

Through a shared culture of relentless innovation, our passionate team of ~16,000 colleagues turn scientific challenges into breakthroughs that improve lives worldwide.

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It benefits our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws. Qualified applicants are considered without regard to sex, race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, marital status (including civil unions), military service, veteran status, pregnancy (including childbirth and related medical conditions), genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity, legally recognized disability, domestic violence victim status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All hiring decisions are based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.