Delivery Manager - Business Intelligence

Role: Delivery Manager - Business Intelligence

Contract: Permanent

Location: Nottingham - in office

Recruitment Partner: Kershia Broughton

The Business Intelligence Manager is accountable for the management and delivery of a program of Business Intelligence reports, supporting the businesses in achieving its strategic goals.

This includes the end-to-end delivery of a program of requests, working closely with our Data Engineering, Business Partnering and Agile Release Train teams to deliver new reports accurately and on-time.

They also play a key role, along with our architecture team in shaping the future roadmap of Power BI within The Boots Group, from both Power BI's visual and reporting capability perspective, but also making sure our usage of Power BI is aligned closely with our technology and data strategies and keeps us ahead or our peers.

As part of the Data & BI extended leadership team they will play a key role designing and managing our ways of working, understand your teams acceptance into and handoff delivery requirements.

• Manage the development and delivery of a rolling programme of Business Intelligence solutions that support business decisions
• Drive a culture where information proactively contributes to the development of business strategies through ad hoc and regular reporting
• Promote and champion new approaches and innovative techniques that promotes a best-in-class BI Delivery team.
• Own the BI reporting suite and ensure outputs tell a simple, reliable and consistent story
• Be the driving force behind your team and providing expert coaching to ensure targets and goals are met whilst fostering a collaborative, innovative work environment
• Liaise with other data consuming functions across The Boots Group to ensure information and its impacts are aligned
• Deputise for the department leader when requested, representing the Delivery function across the wider business as needed
• Identify resource requirements and where needed recruit, manage and develop individuals
• Collaborate with the Data & BI leadership team to ensure consistency of agile ways of working, business processes, governance disciplines and standardized reporting and communications
• Collaborate with Business Partnering, Platform Architecture, Analytics Engineering, other Business Intelligence teams and Release Train teams to influence the roadmap and plan
• Ensure appropriate standards and governance procedures are adhered to throughout delivery & service

• A track record of successfully leading and developing a BI or reporting functions
• Advanced proficiency in Power BI, with hands-on experience in dashboard design and report automation
• Strong experience working with DAX, SQL and data modelling, ideally within Azure and Databricks
• Experience engaging and collaborating with senior stakeholders
• A solutions-focused mindset that thrives in a fast‑faces and evolving environment
• An awareness of data security and governance would be advantageous
• Passionate and organised leader with excellent data literacy, strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Can work in the grey and manage complex, competing demands and multiple senior stakeholders
• A critical thinker with outstanding influencing skills to promote your ideas and move others toward a common vision or goal
• Can work in an omni-channel environment with the ability to see the bigger picture, get to the heart of the problem and to drive the right decisions at pace
• Can discuss complex issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Understanding of the retail environment
• Experience of working in an outsourced environment, managing work across geographies
• Experience of data & analytics, BI
• Experience of agile and Scrum frameworks

• Boots Retirement Savings Plan
• Discretionary annual bonus
• Generous employee discounts
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave pay and gift card for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• Flexible benefits scheme including option to buy additional holiday, discounted gym membership, life assurance, activity passes and much more.
• Access to free,…