Manager, Business Intelligence Unit (APAC)

Alvarez & Marsal; Kuala Lumpur; On-site; MYR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal’s Business Intelligence Unit (BIU) is seeking an experienced Manager to establish and lead the APAC BIU presence. This leadership role combines regional stakeholder management with hands-on analytics, including governance and AI-enabled improvements.

The candidate will guide APAC’s BIU roadmap, manage a regional team, and collaborate with global BIU functions to deliver scalable data solutions and reporting. Strong communication and leadership are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years in BI, analytics, or data-focused consulting with delivery to senior stakeholders.
• Experience managing a team and coaching/mentoring.
• Strong technical grounding in modern analytics, BI, data platforms, and tooling.
• Knowledge of data governance principles including data quality and ownership.
• Ability to translate business problems into dashboards, analysis, or lightweight apps.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the APAC BIU team, setting direction and standards.
• Triage regional requests and align with global BIU roadmap.
• Serve as senior technical contact for complex reporting and data issues.
• Embed data governance, documentation, and data quality controls.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI into analytics workflows.

Skills

BI analytics

People management

Stakeholder management

AI awareness

Data governance

Data platforms

Communication skills

Leadership

User-centered design

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

Snowflake

Power Platform

Job description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands‑on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

Description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with over 10,000 entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals in over 40 countries. We take a hands‑on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work—guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity—are why our people love working at A&M.

The Team

Through continued growth comes more demand for business insights, operational improvement and data‑led ways of working. To support this need and help maintain operational efficiency, A&M has invested in growing its Business Intelligence Unit (BIU). The BIU creates and maintains scalable data assets, constructs analysis, delivers reporting and visualisation products, and leads process improvement implementations that may include workflow redesign, automation, application build, tooling, or separate diagnostic analysis. The unit is also focused on embedding AI into its own ways of working to drive efficiency, and on enabling the business to apply AI to the data assets and solutions the team provides. All with the goal of supporting the firm to realise operational efficiencies identified through analysis.

The BIU operates across multiple geographies and practice areas, supporting decision‑making for senior stakeholders across the firm.

The Business Intelligence Unit is seeking an experienced Manager to establish and lead the BIU's presence across the APAC region. As the first senior BIU hire in the region, this individual will play a critical role in shaping the APAC operating model, supporting the further build‑out of the regional team, and acting as the primary point of contact between business stakeholders and the global BIU.

This is a leadership role that combines regional stakeholder management with hands‑on technical credibility. The successful candidate will bring strong technical grounding across analytics and business intelligence, demonstrated people management experience, and the credibility to represent the BIU to senior stakeholders across the region. They will also be expected to help define scalable ways of working for APAC, including appropriate standards for data quality, documentation, ownership, and governance. The role is central to ensuring APAC's requests are understood and prioritised appropriately against the firm's global BIU roadmap, with work either delivered by the team or routed to the right owner when it falls outside the BIU's remit.

The ideal candidate will be a natural leader who balances strong stakeholder instincts with extensive technical experience and has the appetite to find innovative, often AI‑enabled, ways of working more efficiently.

How You Will Contribute

• Lead, coach, and develop the APAC BIU team, setting direction, priorities, quality standards, and scalable working practices as the regional capability grows.
• Gather, triage, and prioritise regional requests spanning reporting, analytics, process improvement, application development, tooling, and broader data needs, balancing regional demand against the global BIU roadmap and capacity.
• Assess incoming requests against the BIU's remit, pushing back where appropriate and redirecting requests to the correct owning team where they fall outside BIU scope.
• Support the delivery of non‑reporting outputs, including business applications, workflow tools, automation, standalone analysis, and operational recommendations where these are the best route to solving the business problem.
• Serve as a senior technical point of contact for complex reporting, data, and troubleshooting issues raised within the region.
• Embed strong data governance practices across BIU outputs, including clear documentation, data quality checks, ownership models, and appropriate controls for recurring reporting, data assets, applications, and workflow tools.
• Represent APAC’s priorities and constraints in BIU leadership forums and global planning discussions.
• Identify opportunities to embed AI and other emerging tools into the team's ways of working to drive efficiency and speed of delivery.
• Ensure communication to stakeholders is clear, timely, and sets appropriate expectations on scope and timelines.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or data‑focused consulting, with a proven track record of delivery to senior business stakeholders.
• Demonstrable people management experience, including performance management, coaching, and career development of a team.
• Strong technical grounding across modern analytics, business intelligence, data platforms, and workflow tooling; exposure to Snowflake, Power Platform, or similar enterprise data platforms would be advantageous.
• Good understanding of data governance principles, including data quality, lineage, documentation, access considerations, and sustainable ownership of data products and BIU solutions.
• Experience translating business problems into practical outputs, which may include dashboards, analysis, process redesign, workflow tools, automation, or lightweight applications.
• Experience managing stakeholder relationships across a region or business unit, including prioritising competing demands.
• Awareness of current AI and generative AI tools, with a genuine interest in applying them to analytics workflows and reporting products to improve efficiency.
• Experience with user‑centred design principles applied to reporting and analytics products.
• Operational excellence mindset - comfortable driving process improvements, reducing rework, and building sustainable ways of working.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in a relevant field.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior business users and manage expectations diplomatically.
• Confident and diplomatic communicator, able to say no or redirect requests without damaging relationships.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, able to explain technical concepts to non‑technical audiences.
• Leadership presence and credibility; able to set direction and drive accountability within the team and across functions.
• Collaborative mindset, with the ability to work effectively with global BIU teams and other functions.
• Fast learner and self‑starter; comfortable in a rapidly evolving technical environment.
• Entrepreneurial spirit; not afraid to challenge the status-quo and drive continuous improvement.
• Passionate about building high‑performing teams and creating value for the business.

Your journey at A&M

We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person’s unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top‑notch training and on‑the‑job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career.
We prioritize your well‑being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favorite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high‑performing and passionate professionals.