BI Analyst II
Waters Corporation · Milford, MA · 1 wk ago
AnalystFull-time
Overview
The Business Intelligence Analyst plays a key role in transforming data into actionable business insights that drive commercial performance and strategic decision-making. This role partners closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Unit leaders to provide data-driven insights that support commercial performance and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with business acumen and can effectively translate complex data into meaningful recommendations for stakeholders.
Responsibilities
Reporting & Dashboard Development
- Create, maintain, and enhance Power BI dashboards, reports, and visualizations.
- Create scalable reporting solutions that provide visibility into key business performance metrics.
- Ensure reporting accuracy, consistency, and alignment with business definitions.
- Support recurring business reviews and executive reporting processes.
Business Analysis & Insights
- Conduct ad hoc and strategic analyses to identify trends, opportunities, and business risks.
- Analyze sales, marketing, customer, product, and market data to support decision-making.
- Translate business questions into analytical approaches and actionable recommendations.
- Present findings and insights to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Stakeholder Partnership
- Collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to understand analytics needs.
- Partner Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Business Unit leaders.
- Gather requirements and translate business needs into reporting and analytical solutions.
- Serve as a trusted advisor by providing data-driven insights and recommendations.
Data Management & Continuous Improvement
- Write and optimize SQL queries to extract, validate, and analyze data.
- Work with enterprise data platforms and data engineering teams to support reporting needs.
- Identify opportunities to improve data quality, reporting efficiency, and analytical capabilities.
- Contribute to the development of reporting standards, documentation, and best practices.
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Information Systems, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, reporting, or a related role.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with relational databases.
- Experience developing reports and dashboards using Power BI or similar visualization tools.
- Experience working with modern cloud-based data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Synapse, or equivalent.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and critical thinking skills.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management abilities.
PREFERRED:
- Experience applying market, customer, competitive, or commercial insights to business decision-making.
- Familiarity with Salesforce or other CRM platforms.
- Experience with Python, R, or other analytical programming languages.
- Experience working within life sciences, healthcare, technology, or other B2B commercial environments.