Business Intelligence Analyst - West Des Moines, IA

Iowa Select Farms

Job Description

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Business Intelligence Analyst

REPORTS TO:

Head of Optimization & Analytics LAST REVISION DATE: 01.07.2026 Company Values

• We believe in doing the right thing every day, operating with character and integrity, and being stewards of our resource by committing to:
• Our Animals
• Our People
• Our Environment
• Our Community
• The core values of an organization are those values we hold which form the foundation on which we perform work and conduct ourselves. We expect all leaders, managers, and employees to demonstrate, foster and promote:
• Respect:
  We treat people with respect regardless of personal opinions or differing backgrounds, and no one within the organization is more or less important than anyone else
• Accountability:
  We hold ourselves accountable for completing our job responsibilities and following through on our commitments. We encompass our ability to recognize our own strengths and areas for improvement as well as accept responsibility for the performance and actions of ourselves and our teams without blaming others.
• Good Decision-Making:
  We are expected to continuously improve processes, attain results, and create efficiencies to achieve our mission while solving problems based on a combination of factual information, analysis, wisdom, and experience.
• Flexibility:
  We must react to changing circumstances, ambiguity and uncertainty with confidence, openness, positive energy, and optimism.

This individual is responsible for improving, designing, building, testing, producing, and implementing business intelligence (BI) reporting as well as providing valuable insights and analytics to drive data-informed decision making across the organization.

• Develop and maintain interactive dashboards, recurring business reports, and visualizations to enable stakeholders to access and analyze key performance metrics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements, identify data sources, and deliver actionable insights and recommendations.
• Implement tools and processes to facilitate ad hoc analytics.
• Work closely with our developers to update/create views which can be used to build reports.
• Work with Microsoft SQL to build complex queries joining data across multiple tables to provide the necessary information to build the reports.
• Provide training and operational assistance to enable a positive end-user experience with BI Reporting.
• Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and techniques related to business intelligence and data analytics.
• Communicate progress, technical issues, and resolutions to Supervisor.
• Perform other duties as assigned by Supervisor.

• Adhere to Iowa Select Farms bio-security policy at all times which includes reporting any violations or concerns to management team.
• Compliance with Iowa Select Farms safety policies and procedures which includes continuous education to maintain a safe work environment.
• Follow Iowa Select Farms animal wellbeing policy at all times and partner with the Production Well-being team in a timely manner if an incident occurs.

• This position is performed indoors.
• This job operates in an office that is climate controlled and includes hazards typical to that environment.
• This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, filing cabinets and fax machines.

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job.
• Required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb stairs; balance; stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl; talk, read, write or hear.
• Ability to lift or move up to 50 pounds without assistance and up to 100 pounds with assistance.
• The employee must have the ability to sit for long periods of time and to maintain focus on projects such as computer screens or detailed paperwork.

• This is a full-time position that will require at least 40 hours a week.
• Standard work…