Business Intelligence Manager (m/f/d) | Remote (Germany or Switzerland) | Full-time

KD Pharma Group; Bexbach; Remote; EUR 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first within Germany or Europe

Career development opportunities

Competitive compensation with bonuses

Company pension scheme

Team events

Employee product discounts

Free water and coffee

Job summary

KD Pharma Group, headquartered in Hombach/Bexbach area, is seeking a leader to build the group’s data capability from the ground up, designing the platform and team with a remote-first approach across Europe. You will own data strategy, the central warehouse on the Microsoft data stack, and governance, while partnering with ERP to ensure data-driven decisions.

The role offers a high-impact chance to shape standardized data practices across sites, and to lead a cross-country BI function that

Qualifications

• Must have built BI capability from ground up, including data warehouse design.
• Experience leading and developing a data/BI function.
• Strong grounding in Microsoft data stack, hands-on for setting standards.
• Experience with master data management and data quality initiatives.
• Ability to communicate with non-technical leaders and align stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define data strategy and roadmap aligned to business priorities and ERP programme.
• Build and lead data/BI team; decide in-house vs. partner support.
• Design central data warehouse on Microsoft data stack and manage cost visibility.
• Establish standards for master data, governance, and data quality at source.
• Partner with ERP team to ensure data migration and reporting are designed in.
• Take ownership of reporting and KPI delivery across sites and functions.
• Run governed self-service Power BI model and build a report author community across sites.

Skills

Data strategy

BI leadership

Team leadership

Data governance

Master data

Stakeholder mgmt

SQL

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

DAX

Power Query

ERP data knowledge

Tools

SQL

Azure Data Factory

Power BI

DAX

Power Query

Job description

You want to build a group's entire data and BI capability from the ground up – including the team, the platform, and the strategy – not inherit someone else's roadmap? Then take ownership of data strategy, platform, and team at an international niche world leader in Omega-3 technology.

Salary: €85,000 – 100,000 / year, depending on experience | Permanent | Immediate start | Remote within Germany or Switzerland (proximity to our Bexbach site is a plus)

Why join us?

• Build from zero: design the group's data capability, platform, and team – not maintain someone else's legacy
• Direct influence on how leaders across sites, countries, and functions see and trust performance data
• Close partnership with the ERP programme, so data is designed in from the start, not retrofitted
• Remote-first role across Europe, with occasional touchpoints at our Bexbach site

About us – in brief

Headquartered in Bexbach, KD Pharma Group is a mid-sized, internationally active company and one of the world's few manufacturers of Omega-3 concentrates with a purity of up to 99.5% – built on a sole focus on Omega-3 fatty acid research and technology development. As the group brings together businesses that each joined with their own systems and ways of working, this role sits at the center of that standardisation effort.

Tasks

• Data strategy and roadmap: set a practical, prioritised roadmap for data and BI, aligned to business priorities and the wider technology transformation, including the ERP programme
• Data capability: define the data and BI service the group needs — people, partners, and processes; decide what to deliver in‑house, where to hire, and where to buy specialist support; build and lead the team
• Data platform: design a central data warehouse on the Microsoft data stack and lead its delivery, choosing an architecture that fits our scale and budget while keeping running costs visible and under control
• Data quality and master data: establish standards, ownership, and governance for key master data (customers, suppliers, products); work with business owners to measure and improve data quality at source
• ERP partnership: work alongside the ERP team so data migration, integration, and reporting are designed in from the start
• Reporting and insight: take ownership of existing Power BI reports, stabilise and rationalise them, and deliver a consistent set of group KPIs across finance, operations, supply chain, quality, and commercial teams
• Enablement: run Power BI as a governed self‑service model — workspaces, security, licences, certified datasets, and deployment pipelines; build a community of report authors across sites and track adoption

Requirements

Must-have

• A track record of building BI capability, including designing and delivering a dimensional data warehouse
• Experience leading and developing a team
• Experience shaping a data or BI function, including in‑house vs. partner sourcing decisions
• Strong technical grounding in the Microsoft data stack (SQL, Azure Data Factory or similar, Power BI, DAX, and Power Query), hands‑on enough to set standards and judge the quality of others' work
• Practical experience of master data management, working with business owners to fix data quality at source
• The judgement to make considered platform decisions and explain them to non‑technical leaders
• Confidence working with stakeholders across functions, sites, and countries

Nice-to-have

• Experience working with ERP data, ideally through an ERP implementation or migration
• Reporting on manufacturing and supply chain operations (production, inventory, yield)
• Experience rolling out self‑service reporting and building data literacy across a business
• Data governance and cataloguing tools, such as Microsoft Purview
• Sound development practice, including version control, deployment pipelines, and code review
• Hands‑on experience with Microsoft Fabric
• Regulated manufacturing experience, ideally pharmaceutical, including GxP data integrity
• Experience managing third‑party suppliers or outsourced delivery
• Microsoft data certifications, such as PL-300 or DP-600

Benefits

• Remote‑first within Germany or Switzerland
• The opportunity to build and shape a function from the ground up, with real authority over resourcing decisions
• Individual career and development opportunities in an internationally operating company
• Competitive compensation with Christmas and vacation bonuses
• Company pension scheme
• Free water and coffee
• Company products at employee prices
• Regular team events

Remote (Germany or Switzerland) | Immediate start | Full‑time