Business Intelligence Lead

URM Stores Inc; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k Retirement Plan with companymatch

Medical/Dental/Vision/RX premiums paid

Paid holidays and sick days

Employee discount program

Job summary

URM Stores, Inc. seeks a Business Intelligence Lead to be the senior technical leader for reporting and analytics solutions.

This role drives BI development, SAP BusinessObjects support, DB2 data warehouse reporting, semantic modeling, and dashboard architecture, while mentoring BI developers and partnering with stakeholders for accurate, secure, and reusable analytics. The position focuses on leading complex BI dashboards, enforcing BI standards, and ensuring solutions are aligned with

Qualifications

• Five+ years in BI development or related data delivery roles.
• Advanced experience with SAP BusinessObjects, Universes, Web Intelligence, and DB2 data warehouse sources.
• Strong SQL, data and semantic modeling, and dashboard design skills.
• Experience building reporting solutions for operational users, leaders, and executives.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business and technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and QA skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and development of complex BI dashboards, reports, universes, datasets, semantic models, and analytical products.
• Establish and enforce BI standards for modeling, naming, calculations, visualization, documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Review BI solutions for accuracy, performance, maintainability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Troubleshoot SAP BusinessObjects, DB2, SQL, data validation, performance, and user adoption issues.
• Work with stakeholders to clarify requirements, define metrics, and validate BI solutions.
• Translate reporting needs into technical designs, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery tasks.
• Create reusable templates, documentation, and patterns using Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, and Prefect where applicable.

Skills

BI development

Analytics engineering

SQL

Data modeling

Dashboard design

Communication

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Tools

SAP BusinessObjects

Universes

Web Intelligence

DB2

SQL

Power BI

Snowflake

dbt

Fivetran

Prefect

Job description

URM Stores, Inc. is looking for a Business Intelligence Lead to be the senior hands‑on technical leader for URM’s reporting and analytics solutions. This role leads complex BI development, SAP BusinessObjects support, DB2 data warehouse reporting, semantic modeling, dashboard architecture, report modernization, and BI best practices. The role mentors’ BI developers and partners with business stakeholders to ensure reporting solutions are accurate, performant, secure, well documented, and built for reuse across the enterprise.

Technical Leadership:

• Lead design and development of complex BI dashboards, reports, universes, datasets, semantic models, and analytical products.
• Establish and enforce BI standards for modeling, naming, calculations, visualization, documentation, testing, and deployment.
• Review BI solutions for accuracy, performance, maintainability, security, and alignment with enterprise standards.
• Troubleshoot complex SAP BusinessObjects, DB2, SQL, data validation, performance, and user adoption issues.

Business Partnership:

• Work directly with stakeholders to clarify requirements, define metrics, confirm calculations, and validate BI solutions.
• Translate reporting needs into technical designs, data requirements, acceptance criteria, and delivery tasks.
• Identify duplicate, outdated, unsupported, or inconsistent reporting assets and recommend improvements.

Data Stewardship and Enablement:

• Validate data quality, metric calculations, filtering logic, drill paths, and user‑facing definitions before production release.
• Partner with data engineering and integration teams to resolve upstream data issues affecting analytics outputs.
• Create reusable templates, documentation, and patterns using Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, and Prefect where applicable.

Required Qualifications:

• Five or more years of experience in BI development, analytics engineering, reporting, or related data delivery roles.
• Advanced experience developing reports and analytics using SAP BusinessObjects, Universes, Web Intelligence, DB2 data warehouse sources, SQL, and related BI tools.
• Strong SQL, data modeling, semantic modeling, dimensional modeling, and dashboard design skills.
• Experience building reporting solutions for operational users, business leaders, and executives.
• Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to business and technical audiences.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, and quality assurance skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with Snowflake, dbt, Fivetran, Prefect, or comparable cloud data platform tools.
• Experience with Power BI and modern semantic model design.
• Experience with retail, distribution, finance, merchandising, operations, or supply chain analytics.
• Experience mentoring junior developers or acting as a technical lead.
• Experience using AI‑assisted development tools in a business analytics environment.

A Legacy of Local Impact Since 1921

For over a century, URM Stores, Inc. has been the powerhouse behind independent grocers throughout the Inland Northwest. Our mission is simple: help local grocers thrive by handling everything from purchasing and warehousing to the timely delivery of top‑quality merchandise.

What makes us unique? Our co‑operative model means our Member‑Owners aren’t just customers, they’re shareholders. We reinvest in their success by returning earnings to our Co‑Op members as patronage dividends.

Today, URM employs more than 3,000 dedicated team members, including those at our subsidiaries Rosauers Supermarkets and Peirone Produce.

We work in a supportive team environment and in addition to our amazing culture, our employees enjoy many perks, and below are a few of the highlights of our complete compensation package:

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range will be based on several factors including, the prevailing minimum wage for the location, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, and business or organizational needs. Salary range $115,000 - $120,000 annually DOE, plus so much more!
• Insurance Benefits – So that our non‑union employees have more to take home from their paycheck, URM pays 100% of the Medical/Dental/Vision/RX Insurance premiums for the employee and over 93% for the employee’s dependents!
• 401k Retirement Plan with an amazing Company match up to 9% of your annual salary!
• Subsidized Life Insurance for employees and great rates for the employee’s family.
• Company paid Long‑Term Disability insurance.
• Short‑Term Disability and Cancer Insurance available.
• Life Flight Insurance at Special Rate.
• Six Paid Holidays and four Paid Personal Holidays.
• Paid Sick Days.
• Experience enjoyable Company sponsored activities through events like URM March Madness Brackets, Family Hockey Night with the Chiefs, Holiday Mingle & Jingle with great raffle giveaways, Summer Evening Wine & Music Event, and Winter Break Movie Night, which are just a glimpse of the fun we have to offer for employees and their families!
• Plus, enjoy a variety of corporate discounts, from gym memberships, cell phone plans, to computer discounts!
• We also offer an Amazing Employee Discount Program at our Company-owned Grocery Stores!!!!

Equal Opportunity Employer

URM Stores, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer, fostering an inclusive workplace where all employees can thrive. We prohibit discrimination of any kind and are committed to a work environment built on respect, inclusion, and opportunity for all.

We are dedicated to maintaining a work environment free from discrimination in all aspects of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotions, compensation, and workplace practices.

Please note:

All selected candidates must successfully pass a pre‑employment drug screening, as URM maintains a drug‑free workplace.