P\S\L Group is a global organization dedicated to putting information at the service of medicine. The companies and people of the P\S\L Group aim to improve medical care by serving those who need it, those who provide it and those who seek to improve it.
To this end, we want our information and education services to contribute to the goals we share with our clinicians, clients and supporters, namely: to accelerate the advancement of medicine and help people enjoy better, longer lives.
PurposeOur key contribution to society is to help clinicians and those who support them provide state-of-the-art medical care.
Our primary business purpose is to help clients and supporters increase the effectiveness of activities pertaining to scientific communication, medical education and the maintenance of clinician audience intimacy.
Position Summary
We’re looking for a visionary Senior Director of Business Intelligence to lead the charge in transforming how data is used across our organization. In this strategic leadership role, you’ll partner directly with the CIO and senior business leaders to design and deliver analytics that influence company-wide decisions—from boardroom strategy to frontline execution.
You’ll bring together a mix of business acumen, technical depth, and team leadership to establish a best-in-class BI function. This role is ideal for a seasoned data leader who is energized by both building solutions and developing high-performing teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Enable internal and external reporting & analytics to senior executives and all business groups.
- Creating data structures, technology solutions and educating the business on how to generate insights (Syndicated and Ad Hoc).
- Automating and streamline report creation to support enterprise reporting needs
- Liaise between business stakeholders and technology leaders
- Support data and report deliverables for internal and external clients (debug, advice)
- Lead the technical deliveries of business intelligence capabilities for the organization
- Partner with Data Management, Data Engineering and Data Architecture teams to establish a robust semantic/presentation layer
- Provide technical expertise to create insightful and innovative reporting KPIs
- Work closely with business leadership to capture organizational reporting needs
- Manage and mentor a team of Business Intelligence development resources
- Foster collaboration with other technology teams (application, data, security) to ensure business context and priorities are taken into account when technology decisions are made
- Support delivery teams to ensure new projects align to established business and technology architecture and standards
Key Skills, Knowledge & Professional Education
- Degree in business, computer science, statistics, applied mathematics or other quantitative field
- 10+ years of professional experience in BI or Technology field managing complex technical projects
- Advanced skills in data visualization tools like Tableau (strong asset), QuickSight, Looker
- Good working knowledge of SQL and GenBI (LLMs)
- Experience working within a Snowflake environment
- Solid experience in relational and dimensional datasets, data warehouses, and ETL techniques to deliver BI solutions in a business environment
- Ability to create elaborate stories driven by normalized and aggregated data sets
- Demonstrated ability to manage and prioritize workload and roadmaps
- Demonstrated passion for people leadership, management and mentoring
- Proven ability to hire, retain and grow a team of extremely talented engineers
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Proactive, collaborative, and committed to fostering a positive, and high-performing team environment.
- Experience working in an Agile environment
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PSL Group Montréal, Québec, CAN Office
1801 Avenue McGill College, Montréal, Quebec, Canada, H3A 2N4
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