Director of Analytics

Director of AnalyticsAshland, Oregon | In office four days per weekThe MissionData is only valuable when people trust it, understand it, and use it to make better decisions.We're looking for a Director of Analytics to build the enterprise analytics capability that makes that possible. You'll establish the reporting, KPI, and governance foundation; turn data across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Finance, Product, and Customer Service into useful business intelligence; and create a roadmap for how analytics scales as the company grows.This is a builder role, not a strategy-only role. You'll stay hands-on in the data, create executive-ready reporting and analysis, partner with IT and Finance to strengthen data quality and integration, and help leaders ask better questions of the business.Can you turn fragmented data and inconsistent reporting into a trusted system people actually use to make decisions?If that sounds like your kind of challenge, keep reading.What You'll DoBuild the Analytics Foundation. Assess our current reporting, data sources, definitions, and business needs; set the analytics roadmap, operating model, governance standards, and priorities.Create One View of Performance. Establish consistent KPI definitions and build executive dashboards, recurring reporting, and self-service analytics that give leaders a reliable view of the business.Turn Data Into Decisions. Analyze sales, customers, products, channels, retailers, promotions, marketing performance, pricing, and profitability to surface what matters and what the business should do next.Make Operations More Visible. Improve analytics around demand planning, inventory, supply chain, manufacturing, fulfillment, logistics, forecast accuracy, inventory productivity, margins, and service performance.Strengthen the Data Backbone. Partner with IT, Finance, and system owners to improve data quality, integrations, master data, definitions, and scalable reporting models across our core business systems.Automate the Repeatable. Reduce manual reporting and one-off data work by building dependable workflows, reusable models, documented logic, and better information flows.Go Beyond What Happened. Use forecasting, scenario analysis, statistical methods, and practical AI or automation where they improve decisions, speed, accuracy, or insight.Build Capability Around You. Work directly with leaders across the company, raise the quality of analytical thinking, and shape the future team and technology model as the function matures.What You BringBusiness-First Analytics. You start with the decision or problem, not the dashboard. You know the goal is better business judgment, not more reporting.A Builder's Mentality. You're comfortable inheriting imperfect data and fragmented processes, then creating structure without waiting for everything to be ideal.Technical Credibility. You can work hands-on with SQL, BI tools, data models, and complex spreadsheets while also knowing when to involve deeper engineering or systems expertise.Executive Translation. You can move from detailed analysis to a clear story: what changed, why it matters, what is uncertain, and what decision the data supports.Data Discipline. You care about definitions, lineage, reconciliation, and whether the number can be trusted. If something does not make sense, you keep digging.Pragmatic Prioritization. You can balance long-term capability building with the few near-term analyses and reporting improvements that will create the most value.What It TakesA demonstrated record of building, materially improving, or scaling analytics and business-intelligence capability in a growing or changing organization.Strong SQL and relational-data fluency, plus hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or a comparable BI platform.Experience combining data from multiple enterprise systems and improving the definitions, models, quality controls, or governance behind reporting.Experience delivering commercial, operational, and/or financial analytics that senior leaders use to make decisions.Advanced Excel capability and comfort moving between detail-level data, analytical models, and executive-ready outputs.Evidence of leading cross-functional analytics initiatives, setting priorities and standards, and influencing senior stakeholders.Experience developing analytics capability through people, process, tools, or some combination of the three.What Sets You ApartExperience in consumer products, manufacturing, e-commerce, retail, or distribution will give you useful context. So will hands-on experience with systems such as NetSuite, Salesforce, HubSpot, cloud data platforms, data warehouses, or modern analytics stacks.You'll also stand out if you've built an analytics function from an early stage; used Python or R for practical analysis; developed forecasting or predictive models; or applied AI and automation to reduce reporting effort and improve business insight. Graduate training in analytics, statistics, data science, or business can add depth, but demonstrated capability matters more than a particular credential.How We'll Measure SuccessLeaders trust the core KPIs because definitions are consistent and the data behind them is understood. Recurring reporting gets faster, more reliable, and less manual. Dashboards answer real business questions instead of becoming shelfware. Data-quality gaps are surfaced and resolved with the right owners. Analysis leads to clearer decisions in sales, inventory, profitability, marketing, and planning. And over time, the analytics function becomes more scalable, more self-service, and less dependent on one-off heroics.Is Blue Marble Right for You?We're intentionally building a culture of people who lead by example, challenge one another respectfully, take ownership of their work, and want to continue learning and improving.Blue Marble may be exactly the place you're looking for if...You take ownership of your words, actions, and work product.You value honest, hard conversations and long-term progress over short-term comfort.You enjoy solving meaningful problems and seek purposeful work.You see feedback as an opportunity to improve and grow.You naturally look for ways to make things better and help others succeed.You ask questions when something isn't clear.You believe character matters as much as competence.You proactively bring solutions to problems.On the other hand, you probably won't enjoy working here if...You spend more time making excuses or pointing fingers than solving problems.You consistently avoid difficult conversations.You believe your responsibility ends with your job description.You need someone to constantly tell you what to do.You become defensive when receiving constructive feedback.You believe being right is more important than finding the best solution.You consistently wait for instructions rather than taking appropriate initiative.You have difficulty acknowledging mistakes and learning from them.You're primarily looking for a paycheck rather than an opportunity to meaningfully contribute.We're not looking for perfect people.We're looking for capable people who want to keep getting better and who bring their best to the people and work around them.If this sounds like you, let's make great things together.This description is not exhaustive; responsibilities may evolve as Blue Marble grows.Blue Marble is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to any characteristic protected by applicable law and provide reasonable accommodations throughout the hiring process.