Director, Transformation Analytics & Automation

FirstEnergy Corp; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 181,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

FirstEnergy Corp is seeking a Director, Business Transformation Analytics & Automation to lead enterprise data analytics and automation initiatives. You will shape the analytical foundation, govern AI-enabled work, and partner with IT and business units to deliver durable value.

You will lead a senior team, set data and AI standards, manage a portfolio of initiatives, and communicate with executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data science, analytics, engineering, information systems, business, or a related discipline.
• 10+ years of leadership experience and 8 years of relevant functional/technical work.
• Experience leading data, analytics, automation, or technology delivery.
• Experience establishing methods, standards, or quality controls for data and AI.
• Excellent written and verbal communication for senior leaders.
• Ability to manage a portfolio of concurrent initiatives across multiple business units.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team across data analytics and automation AI.
• Set methods, standards, and quality expectations for both disciplines, and review work to confirm it meets them before it reaches the business unit.
• Allocate specialist capacity across business units according to portfolio prioritization and resolve competing demand with the business unit Portfolio Managers.
• Confirm the analytical basis of value sizing at intake and realized benefit at close, so portfolio prioritization and value reporting rest on defensible numbers.
• Own and manage the relationship with IT covering tooling evaluation, data platform decisions, build delivery, handoff of scoped automation specifications, and related activities.
• Represent both disciplines to executive leadership and steering committees, including defending methodology and recommendations under challenge.
• Identify and diagnose enterprise data gaps, quality defects, and architecture constraints that limit decision-making, and make the case for resolving them.
• Maintain a forward view of the automation and AI opportunity across the enterprise - assessing feasibility, sequencing, and cost-to-achieve - rather than responding only to requests.
• Partner with IT, Risk, Legal, and Compliance on responsible AI standards, model risk controls, and data governance, so AI-enabled work is adopted safely and within regulatory expectations.
• Build analytics and automation literacy across the business, so business units become better consumers and eventual owners of what the team delivers.
• Manage third-party analytics, automation, and platform partners, including scope, deliverable quality, and value delivered relative to spend.
• Contribute to Business Transformation strategy, portfolio governance, and capability planning as a member of the leadership team.
• Select and/or develop, implement, and continuously improve the data & analytics and automation & AI tooling and templates the organization relies on.

Skills

Leadership

Data analytics

Automation

AI governance

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Portfolio management

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's preferred

Job description

FirstEnergy Corp is seeking a Director, Business Transformation Analytics & Automation to lead enterprise data analytics and automation initiatives. You will shape the analytical foundation, govern AI-enabled work, and partner with IT and business units to deliver durable value.

You will lead a senior team, set data and AI standards, manage a portfolio of initiatives, and communicate with executive leadership.