Performance and Analytics Operations Supervisor

Xcel Energy Inc; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 85,000 - 121,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Incentive Program

Medical/Pharmacy Plan

Dental

Vision

Life Insurance

401(k) plan

Paid time off

Job summary

Xcel Energy is seeking an Analytics Supervisor to lead data analytics and budgeting for an assigned business area. The role emphasizes data-driven decision making, modeling, and cross‑organizational collaboration to deliver actionable insights and robust reporting.

The position combines technical leadership with coaching for a team, ensuring data requests translate into meaningful information and aligning solutions with strategy.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Technology, Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4 years of prior people leadership experience.
• 7 years of related functional experience.
• Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets.
• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross‑organizationally to drive innovation and business results.
• Demonstrated experience effectively managing system or equipment change deployment.
• Strong time management skills, technical aptitude and analytical abilities.

Responsibilities

• Operations Management: Maintain and enforce support of data analytics and data exploration procedures. Work with contractor management and internal stakeholders to ensure contractor invoicing and data deliverables are timely, compliant and aligned in SAP and other systems.
• Facilitate deployment of statistical and predictive models and data visualization solutions.
• Report performance outcomes and risks, with recommended actions.
• Manage and communicate budget and forecast data within corporate guidelines, as well as working with contractors on accurate monthly accruals.

Skills

Leadership

Data analytics

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

SQL

Excel

Job description

About Xcel Energy

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.

Position Summary

The Analytics Supervisor is responsible for department financial management and advanced analytics for an assigned business area(s). They are the advocate for data-driven decision making using statistical and predictive models and data visualization solutions to meet strategic and tactical goals. They provide technical leadership and collaborate cross-organizationally to ensure solutions align with business unit and corporate strategy. The Analytics Supervisor leverages their business and industry expertise and coordinate across different functions and roles to facilitate reporting and analytic solutions that drive organizational success. This includes working with other departments to extract, transform and load different types of data for use in effectiveness analyses. They are a key contact for business, customer and stakeholder groups, and ensure data requests are transformed into meaningful information for easy consumption, ensuring value and risk are well represented. They serve as a coach and escalation point for their team and provide work direction to achieve strategic initiatives, to meet customer and operational needs, and to implement solutions that meet business goals.

Essential Responsibilities

• Operations Management: Maintain and enforce support of data analytics and data exploration procedures. Work with contractor management and internal stakeholders to ensure contractor invoicing and data deliverables are timely, compliant and aligned in SAP and other systems. Facilitate deployment of statistical and predictive models and data visualization solutions. Report performance outcomes and risks, with recommended actions. Manage and communicate budget and forecast data within corporate guidelines, as well as working with contractors on accurate monthly accruals.
• Leadership: Lead and manage the priorities, performance and development of staff. Provide leadership as needed across multiple sites. Collaborate with stakeholders and lead efforts to identify and deploy continuous process improvement. Serve as an escalation point for problem resolution.
• Strategy: Work cross‑organizationally to drive adoption of standard tools and improved data integrity. Partner with Customer Care, Business Systems and other areas on strategic planning to ensure data solutions are aligned with department and company standards.
• Subject Matter Expert: Provide expert working knowledge of data and reporting domain to team. Stays abreast of industry and technology trends. Directs team to collect, extract, transform, quality validate, continuously improve and automate data and reporting processes.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Technology, Science, Business, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4 years of prior people leadership experience.
• 7 years of related functional experience.
• Excellent communication skills, effective with varying organizational levels and skill sets.
• Excellent Relationship Management and collaboration skills, with a track record of working as one team cross‑organizationally to drive innovation and business results.
• Demonstrated experience effectively managing system or equipment change deployment.
• Strong time management skills, technical aptitude and analytical abilities.

Preferred Characteristics

• Previous experience working with AI or Copilot
• Previous experience in working with Excel or data reporting
• Lean or Six Sigma certification.

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 RequestForm.

Non‑Bargaining

The anticipated starting base pay for this position is: $84,900.00 to $120,566.66 per year

Benefits

• Annual Incentive Program
• Medical/Pharmacy Plan
• Dental
• Vision
• Life Insurance
• Dependent Care Reimbursement Account
• Health Care Reimbursement 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: 10/09/26

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