Director of Business Insights

Apple Montessori Schools, founded by Rex and Jane Bailey, have been nurturing kind, curious, independent, and confident children for over 50 years. As the Director of Business Insights, you will support Apple’s Admissions Strategy by delivering data‑powered insights into the early childhood education industry, local markets, and the family enrollment journey.

In this role you will cultivate a culture of innovation and excellence, transforming complex data into compelling narratives that inform critical decisions to accelerate revenue growth. You will act as a trusted advisor, reporting to the Head of Admissions and Marketing, and align insights with the organization’s strategic goals.

• Transform complex data into actionable insights using storytelling techniques to highlight key findings, trends, and opportunities; develop ongoing methods to measure Apple’s overall admissions strategy while collaborating cross‑functionally for continuous improvement and solutioning.
• Prepare presentation decks in partnership with the Head of Admissions & Marketing by conducting in‑depth root‑cause data analysis, synthesizing information for the target audience, drawing conclusions and raising awareness on issues/opportunities.
• Build, maintain, and refine user‑friendly automated interactive dashboards and reporting views in BI, ensuring KPIs align with business strategy and objectives.
• Ensure ongoing data integrity and reporting accuracy through data infrastructure audits, identifying data discrepancies and opportunities to streamline and consolidate data sources.
• Assess the impact of new school launches and base‑school operations, including analysis of customer engagement, qualitative feedback, pricing strategy, and overall performance optimization.
• Analyze macro‑trends to support market dynamics and correlations to marketing and admissions outcomes.
• Provide ongoing training and support to internal partners on dashboard and report utilization for self‑guided analysis.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, analytics, statistics, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience driving data insights and building comprehensive dashboards in a multi‑unit setting, including experience in data analytics, customer insights, market research, project management, business, or related area.
• An analytical mindset and demonstrated experience as an analytics leader who enjoys taking a data‑driven approach.
• Excellent written, verbal and storytelling communication skills, enabling translation of complex research into compelling and actionable insights for the leadership team and the broader organization, including non‑experts, and ability to communicate technical issues with clarity.
• Resourceful and collaborative with a sharp eye for detail, strong project management and organizational skills, and ability to work well in a fast‑paced environment.
• Team player with ability to build relationships and influence internal cross‑functional stakeholders and external partners to achieve team goals, while able to work autonomously with deadline orientation.
• Organized and strong time‑management skills.
• Capability to think creatively, strategically, and technically to drive business outcomes through analytics.
• Skilled in using analytical and BI tools (Power BI experience preferred).
• Acts as a trusted business partner with in‑depth knowledge of stakeholder’s operations and key objectives/metrics, proactively engaging stakeholders to understand their challenges and goals.
• Ability to connect data insights to business strategies and objectives, and transform business requirements into compelling presentations, reporting, and dashboards that drive business outcomes.
• Understands data pipelines and able to lead BI configurations, advanced report programming, and technical queries.
• Hybrid remote position requiring weekly travel across NJ and occasionally CT, PA, NY.

$125,000–$150,000

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