Director, Data Enablement & BI Strategy

AEP Kimco Realty Corporation & Subsidiaries; Jericho (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kimco Realty is seeking a Director, Data Enablement to lead how the company operationalizes its data—defining, governing and using data. The Director will oversee the enterprise data governance framework, the Kimco metric dictionary and data product standards, guiding the move to BI reporting and readiness for AI and automation.

Sitting in Business Enablement within the Office of Innovation & Transformation, the role collaborates with business leaders and technology teams to reimagine work,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of experience in data governance, analytics, data management or business intelligence, including 3+ years leading data strategy, governance or enablement initiatives.
• Proven experience building a data governance framework and setting enterprise metric definitions.
• Experience defining and managing business-facing data products.
• Hands-on analytical experience with BI tools, semantic models and governed shared datasets.
• Experience leading or supporting reporting migrations or platform adoption across business teams.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to influence without authority in a matrixed organization.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute Kimco's data strategy, combining internal and external data sources to produce new insights and managing data vendor relationships.
• Establish and maintain a practical data governance framework, including ownership, stewardship, decision rights and data quality standards.
• Manage the Kimco metric dictionary and drive agreement across functions on core measures such as occupancy, renewal rent growth and NOI.
• Define data products that can be reused across functions, including their purpose, users, business rules and quality expectations.
• Track the adoption, reuse and business impact of data products.
• Lead business readiness for the Power BI migration, including playbooks, the order teams move in, certified data models and reporting standards.
• Ensure the data behind AI agents, automation and advanced analytics is clean, governed and consistently defined.
• Partner with Technology, Engineering and business teams on requirements and priorities.
• Communicate progress and decisions to senior leadership in clear business terms.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Skills

Data governance

BI tooling

Stakeholder communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Data strategy

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Microsoft Purview

Salesforce

Workday

Job description

Kimco Realty is seeking a Director, Data Enablement to lead how the company operationalizes its data—defining, governing and using data. The Director will oversee the enterprise data governance framework, the Kimco metric dictionary and data product standards, guiding the move to BI reporting and readiness for AI and automation.

Sitting in Business Enablement within the Office of Innovation & Transformation, the role collaborates with business leaders and technology teams to reimagine work,