VP Business Insights

Farm Credit Services; Omaha (NE); On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Farm Credit Services is seeking a VP of Business Insights to lead teams transforming enterprise data into actionable insights that improve decision-making, operational effectiveness, and business performance. You will partner with business leaders and the Cloud Data Engineering team to deliver curated data products, modern visualizations, self-service analytics, and decision-support capabilities.

The VP is accountable for ensuring teammates have access to trusted, relevant, and timely

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, or related disciplines, with prior leadership experience.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Deliver enterprise analytics, insights, dashboards, visualizations, and decision-support capabilities.
• Partner with product and business leaders to identify information needs, KPIs, performance measures, and analytical opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Cloud Data Engineering team to develop curated, trusted data products.
• Develop consistent business metrics, semantic models, and analytics standards that improve insight quality and adoption.
• Promote self-service analytics that enable business teams to access and analyze information efficiently.
• Deliver actionable insights that support operational, financial, customer, and business performance outcomes.
• Evaluate and adopt modern analytics, visualization, and AI-enabled insight capabilities.
• Prioritize analytics investments and delivery efforts based on business value and impact.

Skills

Leadership

Analytics

Data visualization

AI-enabled analytics

Self-service analytics

Stakeholder management

KPI development

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, IS, CS, or related field

Job description

We are seeking a VP Business Insights who will provide leadership to the teams responsible for transforming enterprise data into actionable insights that improve decision-making, operational effectiveness, and business performance. This role partners closely with business leaders and the Cloud Data Engineering organization to deliver curated data products, modern visualizations, self-service analytics, and decision-support capabilities. The VP is accountable for ensuring teammates have access to trusted, relevant, and timely information while fostering a data-driven culture across the organization. The role champions modern analytics practices, business insight delivery, and AI-enabled analytics capabilities that help turn data into better decisions.

• Deliver enterprise analytics, insights, dashboards, visualizations, and decision-support capabilities.
• Partner with product and business leaders to identify information needs, KPIs, performance measures, and analytical opportunities.
• Collaborate with the Cloud Data Engineering team to develop curated, trusted, and reusable data products.
• Develop consistent business metrics, semantic models, and analytics standards that improve insight quality and adoption.
• Promote self-service analytics that enable business teams to access and analyze information efficiently.
• Deliver actionable insights that support operational, financial, customer, and business performance outcomes.
• Evaluate and adopt modern analytics, visualization, and AI-enabled insight capabilities.
• Prioritize analytics investments and delivery efforts based on business value and impact.

Leadership Duties

• Share leadership with team members by empowering them to make decisions. This includes allowing them to take initiative, providing access to information and resources, and holding them accountable. Encourage team members to act autonomously and to contribute ideas and solutions.
• Provide team leadership, shared vision, and positive communications to achieve the Associations’ vision and strategy consistent with the Associations’ core values and team principles. Build strong relationships and collaborative partnerships within the Associations to understand the business opportunities and challenges.
• Establish a positive, participative, and collaborative team environment that inspires creative, high-performing, continuous learning, and engaged team members. Utilize consensus decision-making, when appropriate, to diversify thinking and enable and empower teammates.
• Responsible for attracting, selecting, and on-boarding a diverse and qualified team and determining the appropriate team resource requirements to meet the Associations’ strategic direction.
• Develop team members through coaching, training and development, opportunities, and on-going performance feedback including timely follow-up on individual development plans; counsel team members on Talent Management activities.
• Complete and/or recommend salary administration for team members in accordance with Association procedures.
• Develop and monitor the business plan and annual operating budgets related to areas of responsibilities. Review and approve operational expenditures within delegated authority.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Data Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Years of Experience

• 10+ years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, reporting, data visualization, or related disciplines, with prior leadership experience.

Certification and Technical Requirements

• Experience delivering KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, analytical solutions, and business insights.