IT Director, Data and Analytics

Are you a strategic leader, experienced in advancing the capability and leverage of data and analytics? We believe Digital Transformation is a strategic enabler for our business, and we want to advance our capacity to leverage data, drive efficient business processes, and enable meaningful insights. We need your help to lead us on this journey! Join a growing, contemporary IT team in this senior role with significant exposure and opportunity to make strategic impacts across the organization. You will lead processes and programs across the organization, strengthening data and analytics capability and strategy, enabling growth and innovation. At AdvanSix, we are our customers’ trusted partner for Advantaged Chemistries by caring, innovating, and advancing together. We value diversity and support inclusivity. Join the AdvanSix team today and advance with us!

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintain accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets: Delivering analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions, and augmentation of human performance; be the corporate leader of data-driven insights and use cases that help support the exploitation of strategic and tactical business opportunities
• Define data and analytics(D&A) vision, strategy, and associated practices to execute: Lead the creation, ensuring ongoing relevance, of the organization’s data and analytics strategy in collaboration with the CIO, enterprise architect, and business leadership; institute enterprise operating model required to execute strategy, ensuring delivery models, methods and practices for creation of data products, using an economic mindset
• Foster creation of a data-driven culture: Advancing relevant competencies and data literacy across the enterprise; lead these transformation efforts by developing D&A talent and maturing the capability of the organization; Help leadership and team members across the organization to use data and data products more effectively
• Establish and maintain trust in data assets: Institute governance mechanisms for data and algorithms used for analysis, analytical applications and automated decision making; establish data governance to promote data access, quality, and analytical capability, including training, data stewardship, and data standards
• Be a talent ambassador, leading and coaching: Identify and develop a small team of D&A professionals; manage, coach, and develop direct report as well as coach and mentor individuals across the organization in use of D&A products

What you’ll bring to the table:

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, Analytics, Computer Science or related fields; master’s preferred
• 10 years progressively responsible relevant experience in data management, including creating partnerships, implementing data governance, and understanding the underlying technologies needed to enable data innovation across a midsized or large organization; 5 years as people focused leader
• Demonstrated success driving enterprise-wide programs and creating business value– organizational growth, productivity, risk reduction, and / or cost reduction
• Experience developing data strategy, policies, and procedures
• Experience creating capabilities that enable data discovery and ensure data quality

What will enable your success:

• Proven track record leading multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions. Ability to balance team and individual responsibilities, build teams and consensus, get things done through others not directly under their supervision, and work ethically and with integrity; Inspires, motivates, and empowers direct and indirect reports to accomplish strategic goals
• Ability to define strategic initiatives and oversee the development of long-term plans; outcome orientation to break down long-term plan and lead executable programs
• Excellent business acumen and interpersonal skills; able to work across business lines at a senior level to influence and effect change to achieve common goals
• Creates consistent value-oriented storylines for better understanding and execution of the D&A Strategy; ability to effectively drive business, culture and technology change in a dynamic and complex operating environment, including conveying information to diverse audiences in a way that is easily understood and actionable; comfort with public speaking and the ability to creatively and concisely express ideas to business and technical audiences; strong active listener; robust diplomatic skills and ability to help senior business leaders see value, opportunities, and risks beyond their own area of expertise
• Capable of partnering across the organization to define and breakdown opportunities, identify logical solutions, and facilitate change; ability to anticipate and mitigate issues
• Creative, critical thinking, and outstanding analytical and problem-solving abilities; familiarity with business information generation and analysis methods
• Adjusts thinking and behavior resiliently and uses experience to fuel growth
• Dynamic, curious learner with desire to understand new perspectives and opportunities, to explore new ways to solve problems
• Ability to facilitate sessions to elicit ideas from others, understand their issues and encourage group participation
• Knowledge of trends and developments in the fields of data management and data analytics; aware of innovations and new approaches within and outside domain
• Knowledge of data security protocols, policies, and regulations
• Some travel is required (25%)