Description
Xplore Inc. is Canada’s fibre, 5G and satellite broadband company for rural living. Xplore is committed to the relentless pursuit of an improved broadband experience for all Canadians. Xplore is building a world-class fibre optic and 5G wireless network to enable innovative broadband services for better every day rural living, for today and future generations.
We are looking for an experienced and insight-driven Senior Manager, Business Intelligence to lead our BI practice and transform data into strategic, actionable intelligence. This is a leadership role focused on analytics, reporting, KPIs, and dashboards empowering business stakeholders to make confident, data-backed decisions.
Reporting to the Director of Analytics, you will own the end-to-end delivery of business intelligence products: from aligning with stakeholders on metric definitions, to designing scalable dashboards, to ensuring our reporting ecosystem is accurate, timely, and meaningful. You will lead a team of BI analysts and developers, fostering a culture of curiosity, rigor, and continuous improvement.
Why Join Us:
- High-impact role where your insights directly influence executive and business decisions.
- Collaborative analytics team with strong data infrastructure and modern tooling (Databricks ecosystem).
- Autonomy to shape BI strategy and build a team culture you're proud of.
- Supportive leadership team committed to your professional growth and success.
Key Responsibilities Include:
Reporting & Insights Leadership
- Define and own the organization's core KPI framework, ensuring metrics are aligned to business goals and consistently understood across teams.
- Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards and reports that deliver clear, actionable insights to executives and business stakeholders.
- Translate complex datasets into compelling narratives that drive strategic decisions moving beyond data delivery to true insight generation.
- Establish and maintain reporting standards, and documentation across all BI outputs.
- Partner with Finance, Operations, Marketing, Sales, and Product teams to understand their analytics needs and prioritize accordingly.
People Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a team of BI analysts and dashboard developers, setting clear goals and fostering professional growth.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and career development planning for direct reports.
- Build a high-performing team culture grounded in data quality, intellectual curiosity, and business impact.
- Manage team capacity, project prioritization, and workload distribution effectively.
Analytics & Data Strategy
- Collaborate with data engineering and data platform teams to ensure BI-ready data models and semantic layers are reliable and scalable.
- Leverage Databricks and connected BI tools to build performant, self-serve analytics solutions.
- Identify opportunities for self-service analytics, enabling business users to answer their own questions with confidence.
- Champion data literacy across the organization through training, documentation, and stakeholder enablement.
An Ideal Candidate Will Possess:
- 8+ years of experience in business intelligence, analytics, or a related field with 2-3 years of people leadership experience
- Deep expertise in BI reporting, KPI development, dashboard design, and data storytelling
- Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally with business stakeholders to translate needs into analytics solutions.
- Hands-on experience with Databricks including SQL on Databricks, and/or Delta Lake familiarity and AI/BI dashboards
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Looker, or similar platforms.
- Strong business acumen — ability to understand organizational priorities and connect them to analytics outputs.
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills; able to explain complex data concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Proven ability to manage competing priorities and deliver in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Highly organized with strong project and stakeholder management capabilities.
Condition of Employment:
As a condition of employment and in order to comply with industry related data security standards, this position is subject to the successful completion of a Criminal Background Check. Details will be supplied to applicants as they move through the selection process.
Xplore is committed to creating an accessible environment and will accommodate disabilities during the selection process. Please let your recruiter know during the selection process of any accommodation needs.
