IT Head of BI

About Convatec

Pioneering trusted medical solutions to improve the lives we touch: Convatec is a global medical products and technologies company focused on solutions for the management of chronic conditions with leading positions in Advanced Wound Care Ostomy Care Continence Care and Infusion Care. With more than 10000 colleagues we provide our products and services in around 90 countries united by a promise to be forever caring. Our solutions provide a range of benefits from infection prevention and protection of at-risk skin to improved patient outcomes and reduced care costs. Convatecs revenues in 2024 were over $2 billion. The company is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index (LSE:CTEC). To learn more please visit

Position Overview

As part of our accelerated digital transformation and the implementation of our new Next Generation BI platform we are looking for a Head of BI to lead our global Business Intelligence organisation. This key leadership role is aligned with our strategy a modular cloud-native data-centric architecture designed to democratise data access strengthen governance and maximise business value.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the global BI organisation across APAC EMEA and the AMERICAS with direct accountability for strategy governance performance and delivery.

• Define evolve and execute the global BI roadmap in line with our overall technology strategy and business imperatives.

• Oversee the transition and integration from legacy BI platforms to the Next Generation BI ecosystem.

• Ensure robust data governance including a centralised data catalogue data quality compliance and access management.

• Manage global teams across Data Engineering Reporting Data Governance and Advanced Analytics fostering an agile value-driven and innovation-focused culture.

• Collaborate with business and IT stakeholders (Data Owners Product Owners Business Leaders) to position data as a core strategic asset.

• Oversee BI delivery KPIs service performance and budgets ensuring high quality of service and alignment with organisational goals.

• Promote a data-driven culture through the adoption of self-service BI and automated reporting/dashboards.

Skills & Experience

• At least 10 years experience in Business Intelligence with 5 years in a BI leadership role in a global or matrixed organisation.

• Proven expertise in modern BI architecture (Data Lake EDW Streaming APIs Real-Time & Batch Processing).

• Demonstrated experience delivering cloud-based analytics platforms (Azure AWS GCP).

• Strong knowledge of data governance cataloguing security automation and self-service analytics.

• Excellent leadership and team management skills across distributed and cross-functional teams.

• Strong communication and change management skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical stakeholders alike.

The Head of BI will work within a modern cloud-based BI ecosystem including:

• Data Integration: Fivetran HVR Databricks Apache Kafka Google BigQuery Google Analytics 4

• Data Lake & Storage: Databricks Delta Lake Amazon S3

• Data Transformation: dbt Cloud

• Data Warehouse: Snowflake

• Analytics & Reporting: Power BI Excel Snowflake SQL REST API

• Advanced Analytics: Databricks (AI & Machine Learning)

• Governance & Infrastructure: Centralised Data Catalogue & Access Control (Okta)

• Job Scheduling & Monitoring (AWS Splunk)

• Agile Data Engineering with centralised code repositories

• BI Data Portal: Power BI

However this coexists with a legacy tech stack which the head of BI will support the transition to the new architecture already in place.

Qualifications/Education

• Degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or equivalent.

• Certifications such as Azure Data Engineer AWS Big Data SAFe or PMP are a plus.

Travel Requirements

• Occasional international travel required

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