Senior Manager - BA/BI Developer

Client of Discovered MENA; Dubai; On-site; AED 250,000 - 480,000; Full time

Job summary

Client of Discovered MENA is seeking an experienced Head of BI Analytics in Dubai to bridge commercial leadership and data teams, ensuring dashboards are accurate, fast and actionable.

You will turn raw numbers into clear business stories, drive data quality, manage stakeholder requests across units, and coach analytics leads on design, optimization and governance of reporting platforms like Power BI and Tableau.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in business intelligence, commercial reporting, or analytics delivery within fast-paced, multi-product digital environments.
• People & Stakeholder Management: 2–4+ years managing analysts or technical leads, with a track record of pushing back and partnering with senior executives.
• Technical depth includes strong SQL, cloud data platforms, and understanding of digital performance/funnel metrics.
• Excellent business narrative skills to translate analytics into actionable guidance for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Protect leadership from broken data by catching issues before morning reports.
• Tell the narrative behind the numbers: explain performance shifts and opportunities.
• Manage and prioritize analytics requests from multiple business units to focus on high-impact work.
• Audit dashboards to remove clutter and standardize key metrics across units.
• Coach analytics leads on design, query optimization, and structured problem-solving.

Skills

SQL

Cloud data platforms

BI storytelling

Communication

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Cloud platforms

Job description

Our client is a prominent Dubai-based retail operator managing multiple consumer brands across the region.

Discover the Role

You are the bridge between commercial leaders who need trusted numbers to make decisions and the technical data teams who build the reports. Your job is to ensure dashboards are accurate, fast, and actually useful, turning raw numbers into clear, simple business stories so leadership knows what is happening and what to do next.

Discover the Responsibilities

• Protect leadership from broken data: Catch pipeline issues, data mismatches, and broken charts before business heads open their morning reports.
• Deliver the "so what?": Move past basic charts. Tell the narrative behind the numbers: why performance shifted, what the funnel is showing, and where the commercial opportunities sit.
• Be the shield and traffic controller: Handle incoming reporting requests from multiple business units, prioritize what truly matters, and keep technical teams focused on high-impact work instead of endless ad-hoc fire drills.
• Kill dashboard clutter: Audit existing reporting suites to shut down redundant, slow, or unused dashboards while standard soiing key metrics across business units.
• Coach delivery leads: Guide analytics and BI leads on technical design, query optimization, and structured problem-solving.

Desired Candidate Profile

What We Are Looking For

• Experience: 8+ years in business intelligence, commercial reporting, or analytics delivery within fast-paced, multi-product digital environments.
• People & Stakeholder Management: 2 4+ years managing analysts or technical leads, with a track record of confidently pushing back, managing expectations, and partnering with senior executives.
• Technical Depth: Strong SQL skills, hands-on familiarity with cloud data platforms, solid grasp of BI tools (Power BI, Tableau, or similar), and a clear understanding of digital performance/funnel metrics.
• Communication: Exceptional business narrative skills - able to break down complex analytical findings into plain, actionable advice for non-technical stakeholders.