Group BI Director

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We're Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That's right, we're big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world.

And that's where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices. This role will be based from our London Paddington office with travel between Kingfisher and Banner sites.

The Group Business Intelligence (BI) Director sets and executes the BI strategy to deliver trusted, scalable, and actionable insights across the organisation. The role leads front-end and back-end BI teams (c.20 people) in a matrix set-up, partnering with business functions and Technology to modernise data foundations, define content of and improve the user experience of dashboards, accelerating self-service analytics and contributing to a data-driven culture.

• Define and deliver a long term strategy for leveraging BI as a key business enabler and competitive differentiator across Group Technology.
• Lead BI platform roadmap and governance (based on Power BI).
• Manage BI portfolio, prioritising high-value dashboards and data products.
• Build and lead a high-performing team across front-end and back-end disciplines.
• Partner with Banner and Group leaders to shape demand and enshrine user centric design principles.
• Ensure robust data quality, governance, and compliance.
• Drive adoption of self-service analytics and reusable data assets.
• Foster collaboration across Kingfisher teams, to drive a stakeholder engagement plan that supports BI decisions

Qualifications:

• Significant experience in BI/Data Analytics.
• Experience working in high transaction volume Retail
• Proven experience leading multi-disciplinary BI teams (~20 people).
• Strong technical knowledge of BI tools, data modelling, and governance.
• Skilled in matrix management and stakeholder engagement.
• Familiarity with cloud data platforms (GCP, Azure, Databricks, etc.).

• We listen to our customers and colleagues
• We innovate products and experiences to stay ahead

• We do the right thing
• We invest in our people and build great teams

• We focus externally, globally and build the long term
• We experiment and share our learnings

• We act with pace, not perfection, role modelling 80/20
• We take risks, fail fast and adapt quickly

• We celebrate difference as a strength
• We collaborate, breaking down silos

• We focus on performance outcomes
• We prioritise and simplify for others

At Kingfisher, we value the perspectives that any new team members bring, and we want to hear from you. We encourage you to apply for one of our roles even if you do not feel you meet 100% of the requirements.

In return, we offer an inclusive environment, where what you can achieve is limited only by your imagination! We encourage new ideas, actively support experimentation, and strive to build an environment where everyone can be their best self. Find out more about Diversity & Inclusion at Kingfisher here!

We also offer a competitive benefits package and plenty of opportunities to stretch and grow your career.

Interested? Great, apply now and help us to Power the Possible.