Overview of the Company
United Wheels Inc. (“UWI”) is an international, privately held business, with affiliated companies and operations in Asia, the Americas and around the world. UWI is a world leader in the design, manufacture and international distribution of bicycles, e-bikes, and rideable toys, manufacturing more than 6 million bicycles and e-Bikes each year
UWI owns and operates several bicycle-related subsidiaries. These subsidiaries include:
- Huffy Corp. (https://www.huffybikes.com/), the iconic bicycling company based in Dayton, Ohio, with more than 125+ years of bicycling history.
- Buzz Bicycles (https//.buzzbicycles.com)
- Batch Outdoors Inc. (https://www.batchbicycles.com/)
- Niner Brands International Inc. (https://ninerbikes.com/)
- VAAST Bicycles (https://www.vaastbikes.com/)
Summary
Reporting to the Director of IT Solutions, the Business Intelligence Analyst is responsible for supporting data-driven decision-making through the development, maintenance, and delivery of business intelligence solutions. This role involves acquiring, transforming, and analyzing data from various sources to create reports, dashboards, and visualizations that communicate key business metrics and insights. The analyst collaborates with cross-functional teams to define reporting requirements, ensure data accuracy, and deliver actionable information to stakeholders across the organization.
With a focus on data integrity, governance, and usability, the Business Intelligence Analyst also supports troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and ongoing optimization of BI tools and systems. This position requires proficiency in data querying and visualization tools, a strong understanding of data structures and business processes, and the ability to interpret complex data to inform strategic and operational priorities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Conduct data profiling, validation, and analysis to evaluate data sources and ensure high-quality inputs for BI reporting and transformation efforts.
- Translate business needs into BI solutions by collecting requirements, defining metrics, and building reports, dashboards, and data visualizations for stakeholders at all levels.
- Develop and maintain scalable, actionable dashboards and reporting tools using AWS Quicksight or similar platforms.
- Acquire, clean, and transform data from multiple sources into usable formats, including building algorithms, datasets, and structured data models.
- Create and optimize SQL queries and perform advanced data manipulation for reporting and analysis.
- Support and manage business intelligence tools, databases, and systems; update or enhance existing solutions based on business needs.
- Perform root cause analysis (RCA) and troubleshoot data/reporting issues; ensure timely resolution and communication to stakeholders.
- Test and validate BI solutions to ensure alignment with stakeholder requirements and organizational data standards.
- Monitor and manage the flow of business intelligence information to end-users, ensuring performance, accuracy, and accessibility.
- Establish and uphold data governance policies, data access controls, and data quality standards across BI initiatives.
- Maintain awareness of emerging BI tools and trends while continuously improving technical and analytical skillsets.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams on data warehouse queries, transformation logic, and development of data lake structures to support analytics needs.
- Mentor and train power users across departments, enabling them to use BI tools effectively and serve as local BI champions.
Supervisory Responsibilities
Lead/mentor those with reporting responsibilities within their functional area.
Education and/or Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- 2-4 years of experience in business intelligence and data analysis, including:
- Experience with data modeling and data warehousing, including the creation of highly technical SQL queries, ETL/ELT processes, and data integration tools
- Experience with data visualization tools, such as AWS Quicksight
- Experience working with large datasets and turning complex information into clear visuals and reports
- Technical expertise regarding data models, database design development, data mining, data engineering, test and production environment development, and segmentation.
Competencies
- Customer Focus - Aims to satisfy all customers while maintaining effective relationships, both internal and external. Maximizes those relationships to improve personal, department, and organizational performance. Holds co-workers and customers to a similar standard.
- Energy - Have a tremendous amount of energy and passion for our people, products, and brands. Approaches each date willing to take on the day’s challenges. Operating at their individual peak performance without encouragement.
- Energize - Energize teams with enthusiasm and excitement without intimidating them. Projects a positive mental attitude and can-do spirit, who lifts up members of his / her team. Does not get discouraged by setbacks.
- Edge - Have a competitive edge and an overwhelming desire to win. Hates losing and will give 100% commitment to achieving or exceeding their plan. Willing to make difficult decisions, when called upon.
- Execution - Action and performance oriented and are focused on attaining results. A team player who is reliable and follows through on tasks to completion. Attention to details.
- Increases Company Value - Strives to increase sales, reduce costs, improve efficiency, and maximize profits to increase the value of the Company.
- Innovative / Continuous Improvement - Committed to improving processes, products, services, and a willingness to embrace change for the benefit of our team, department, organization, and shareholders.
- Integrity - The quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness. Elevating challenges in order to collaborate with co-workers, SLT, ELT, and the Board.
Language Skills
Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with all levels of staff. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients’ customers, and the public. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, financial reports, and legal documents.
Mathematical Skills
Strong analytical skills. Ability to apply mathematical operations such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
Reasoning Ability
Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.
Computer Skills
Microsoft Office, knowledge of systems, software, and hardware, including application systems and operating systems.
Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
None
Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
