Mgr, Supply Chain Data Products and Analytics

Xcel Energy; Maple Grove (MN); Hybrid; USD 112,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual incentive program

Medical plan

Dental

Vision

Life insurance

Pension

401(k)

Paid time off

Holidays

Parental Leave

Job summary

Xcel Energy, Inc. is seeking a Manager of Supply Chain Data Products & Analytics to lead the data product portfolio and analytics capability across the supply chain organization.

You will own the analytics layer, drive AI-enabled workflows, and partner with enterprise data teams to deliver measurable financial outcomes. The role requires 7+ years in analytics/data engineering, cloud platform experience, and strong leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, engineering, information systems, or business discipline.
• 7+ years of analytics, data engineering, BI, or supply chain decision support; includes leadership.
• Demonstrated delivery of analytical products on a modern cloud data platform with SQL fluency.
• Experience with SAP data structures (ECC or S/4HANA) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Owns the supply chain data product catalog: definition, prioritization, development, versioning, and retirement of governed assets.
• Directs closure of domain data engineering gaps in the enterprise lakehouse in partnership with the enterprise data platform organization.
• Establishes data contracts, refresh standards, and quality thresholds for production data products.
• Serves as the accountable owner for the supply chain analytical data layer and maps reports to data sources.
• Owns automation and AI-assisted analytics portfolio, progressing toward governed AI workflows.
• Delivers executive decision support including MSS Leadership Scorecard and CFO-level models.
• Leads a team of 4–5 professionals and builds analytics capabilities.

Skills

Leadership experience

Analytics engineering

Cross-functional delivery

Cloud data platform experience

SQL fluency

ETL/Data modeling

Education

Bachelor's degree in quantitative/engineering/information systems

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

SAP ECC/S/4HANA data structures

Power BI

Job description

Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL) is a leading energy provider and Fortune 500 company, dedicated to serving millions of electricity and natural gas customers across eight states: Minnesota, Colorado, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico and Texas. We make energy work better for our customers, helping them thrive every day. That means always raising the bar - delivering better service and providing more reliable, resilient, and sustainable energy.

Xcel Energy is a place where you’ll have opportunities to grow, expand your skills, and help lead the clean energy transition. We offer meaningful rewards, recognition, and support to help you build your career and make an impact - both on the job and beyond. Most importantly, it means you’ll be joining a company that knows employees are the driving force behind its success and is committed to helping you be your best.

Xcel Energy supports a hybrid work model to enable collaboration and flexibility. Many roles are expected to work onsite three days per week (Tuesday–Thursday); however, work location expectations vary based on role, team, and business needs.

Mgr, Supply Chain Data Products and Analytics

Position Summary

Leads the Supply Chain Data Products & Analytics team serving the Supply Chain organization. The Manager owns the supply chain data product portfolio — governed, reusable analytical assets including inventory productivity and Economic Return on Inventory models, workforce capacity models, distribution network demand signals, and operational scorecards — that convert enterprise data into supply chain decisions with measurable financial outcomes.

The role builds domain analytics on the enterprise data platform under enterprise standards, is the named owner of the supply chain analytical data layer and leads the team's adoption of AI-enabled analytical capability, including the existing automation portfolio and natural-language analytics, under applicable governance and control standards.

Essential Responsibilities

Data Product Ownership

• Owns the supply chain data product catalog: definition, prioritization, development, versioning, and retirement of governed analytical assets serving Supply Chain functions, Supply Chain leadership, and enterprise finance stakeholders.
• Directs closure of documented domain data engineering gaps in the enterprise lakehouse in partnership with the enterprise data platform organization.
• Establishes data contracts, refresh standards, and quality thresholds for all production data products.

S/4HANA Analytical Continuity

• Serves as the accountable owner for the supply chain analytical data layer and maps every production report and data product to its post-conversion data source before cutover.
• Partners with the Business Integration function on system-of-record design decisions affecting downstream analytics; Business Integration owns system configuration and process design — this role owns the analytical consumption layer.

AI-Enabled Analytics & Workflow

• Owns and evolves the team's automation and AI-assisted analytics portfolio, progressing from robotic process automation toward governed AI workflows within human-approved control boundaries and applicable enterprise standards.
• Maintains a value ledger attributing realized savings and productivity hours to each deployed capability; no autonomous AI action on financial controls.

Decision Support

• Delivers executive decision support: MSS Leadership Scorecard, Monthly Operating Review analytics, blocked invoice control monitoring against the SOX threshold, and CFO-level financial models.

Team Leadership & Capability Build

• Leads, develops, and performance-manages a team of 4–5 professionals; executes the team's skills progression toward analytics engineering, AI engineering, and data product management.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative, engineering, information systems, or business discipline, or equivalent experience.
• Seven or more years of progressive experience in analytics, data engineering, business intelligence, or supply chain decision support, including two or more years leading people or cross-functional delivery.
• Demonstrated delivery of analytical products on a modern cloud data platform (Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent) with SQL fluency and working knowledge of data modeling.
• Experience supporting enterprise resource planning data environments; SAP (ECC or S/4HANA) data structures strongly preferred.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in utility, energy, or asset-intensive supply chain operations.
• Experience with data product management practices, semantic layer design, or federated operating models.
• Experience deploying RPA, LLM-based tooling, or AI-assisted workflow automation under enterprise governance, including human-in-the-loop control design.
• Power BI at an advanced level, including workspace administration and deployment pipelines.

Our culture is grounded in shared values and employee commitments that guide how we work, support one another, and grow together.

Our Values

Connected, Committed, Trustworthy, Safe

Our Employee Commitments

• Work that makes a difference
• A team you can count of
• Opportunities to grow
• Rewards that help you thrive

Xcel Energy provides job applicants reasonable accommodations for disabilities throughout the application process. If you are in need of an accommodation to complete the application process, now or at any time in the future, please complete the Applicant Accommodation Request Form.

Non-Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $112,200.00 to $159,400.00 per year

This position is eligible for the following benefits: Annual Incentive Program, Medical/Pharmacy Plan, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Care Flexible Spending Account, Health Savings Account (HSA) (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Limited-Purpose FSA (if enrolled in eligible health plan and HSA), Transportation Reimbursement Account, Short-term disability (STD), Long-term disability (LTD), Employee Assistance Program (EAP), Fitness Center Reimbursement (if enrolled in eligible health plan), Tuition reimbursement, Transit programs, Employee recognition program, Pension, 401(k) plan, Paid time off (PTO), Holidays, Volunteer Paid Time Off (VPTO), Parental Leave

Benefit plans are subject to change and Xcel Energy has the right to end, suspend, or amend any of its plans, at any time, in whole or in part.

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Deadline to Apply: 11/20/26

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