Director of Business Intelligence, Asia

**Sephora** is a global leader in omni channel beauty retailing, and a division of LVMH - Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. At Sephora, we stand together and we stand for something more. For empowerment, for exploration, for the opportunity to impact people’s lives through the unlimited power of beauty. We successfully operate more than three thousand points of sale across Americas, Europe, Middle East and Asia, and together we aim to animate the most loved beauty community in the world.

Here in Asia, our teams run omni-channel businesses in 11 markets across the region, in addition to cross-border e-commerce to several more. Our success is built on innovation, a unique product portfolio, market leading digital capability, and our unique customer experience. With ambitious growth plans we are always looking for talented people who aspire to build businesses and develop themselves. Sparked by energy and excitement, our passion is contagious. We are united by a common goal - to reimagine the future of beauty.
**Director of Business Intelligence - Asia**

At Sephora, we make decisions that impact the future of the omni channel beauty retail customer experience every day_. _Data plays a big role in that, and the Business Intelligence (BI) team enables data-driven decision-making across the business_._ As our **Director of Business Intelligence**, you will lead the effort to gain a deep understanding of our data and transform those insights into actionable business decisions that will steer the future of the company. You will continue the drive to transform the team while building a network of decentralized analytical capability in the region.

With your passion and expertise in building analytics capability, you will help drive innovation and disruption in our omni-channel business. Get ready to think creatively, work strategically, and make your mark at a leading global retailer.

This role is part of our Asia HQ in Singapore and will work closely with business leaders across the region including Greater China, South East Asia & Oceania, and South Korea. You will manage teams in Singapore and Shanghai, and some travel should be expected.

**You will shine here if you enjoy**

** Enabling Better Decision Making**
Collaborate broadly, across every single function, to support the BI needs of the business as a centre of data excellence and identify relevant insight and analysis to improve decision making
- Build and maintain real-time or near real-time descriptive reports that enable departments to use evidence to make data driven decisions; consolidate, cleanse, streamline and support the BI platform to improve user experience
- Empower business teams with the necessary skills and capabilities (and guardrails) to run their own analyses on our BI platform (Domo) and Data Science platform (Dataiku)
**Building a Data-Driven Culture**
- Champion a culture of data-informed decision-making and advance our data capabilities across all functions (from office employees to cast members in stores)
- Drive thought leadership to improve the organization’s data rigor through education
- Animate and inspire a network of decentralized analytical talents across the region through best practice sharing and skills & capability upgrades among; mentor/coach other analytical talents to build skills and capabilities together
- Maintain a structured and scalable process for graduating new Editors across the organization
** Advanced Analytics**
- Lead Advanced Analytics projects; past examples include detailed traffic forecasting for improved roster-building, recovery forecast by city, and pandemic impact on consumer behavior
- Work with Data/IT teams to align the architecture and infrastructure needed to serve the analytics needs of the business
- Experiment with new technologies in machine learning and AI, or simply ways of thinking about data
** Team Leadership**
- Build, coach and mentor a team of world class BI analysts to identify, define and solve high impact business problems and opportunities
- Empower each member of the team to derive actionable and relevant insights, and to act as a “consultant” in providing data informed recommendations to the business teams
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement, utilizing Datacamp for team learning initiatives to ensure the members’ skills and knowledge base remains relevant in the evolving field of data analytics
- Continue to transform the team from a reporting focus to forward looking data usage, deriving insights and ultimately predictive analytics
**We would love to hear from you if**
- You have experience building and leading a BI function in an MNC environment with fast pace and high complexity
- You have a passion for data and at least ten years’ professional experience in analyzing large datasets and translating it to actionable business insights
- You have experience leading transformative initiatives and effectively influencing senior level stakeholders
- You have a