Springer Publishing is a leading healthcare education and exam prep company, committed to advancing people, ideas, and careers in nursing, advanced practice nursing, social work, and behavioral and health sciences. We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Data and Analytics leader to build out our data and analytics infrastructure.
Job Purpose
The Director of Data and Analytics will own all data engineering, data visualization and business intelligence functions at Springer Publishing. This newly created role will be responsible for the provision of data, analytics, and business intelligence capabilities to the organization, and will play a key role in driving a data-driven decision-making culture. You will lead the selection of data warehousing and business intelligence tools that distill complex data into clear and actionable insights.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Define and implement the strategy for Springer Publishing’s data systems, platforms, and integration across the organization
- Act as the product owner of key data products, working to ensure selection of appropriate technological approaches and tools.
- Deeply understand the use case and applications for data systems at Springer Publishing
- Own the quality, understandability, and reporting of key company metrics from ingestion to modeling and reporting.
- Be the visible leader of Data to the organization by setting and articulating a vision, providing ongoing communication, and establishing a foundation of data governance that promotes trust and empowers data-driven decision making across the company.
- Oversee data governance and security, and ensure compliance with data privacy, ethics, and regulations.
- Manage contractors and vendors including software and professional services providers
- Develop and manage budgets for data and BI systems
- Stay up to date with the latest and evolving BI and EDW best practices and technologies
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience of building and maintaining data warehouses, BI applications, and data management processes
- Deep understanding and experience with SQL and data visualization tools
- Advanced proficiency with data model design, applications, data flows, API documentation, and data governance
- Excellent collaboration skills, with the ability to understand and apply product needs and requirements from a diverse set of organizational stakeholders, and to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Clear track record of success taking product ideas from concept to design to execution and linking objectives and outcomes to strategic goals.
- Demonstrated experience applying technical coordination and project management best practices
- Highly organized and detail-driven, with the ability to anticipate workflow needs in a quick-turn environment
- Experience integrating Data Warehouse and Customer Data Platform solutions
- Experience in EdTech and/or direct to consumer eCommerce preferable
- Strong project management skills
- Experience utilizing data infrastructure tools such as cloud data warehouses (Snowflake, etc), data integration tools, business intelligence tools (PowerBI, etc), CRM systems (Salesforce, etc), and other enterprise data tools required.
- Familiarity with SQL, Python, R, and/or other coding languages for data analytics, data science and/or data engineering required.
- Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree
Physical Requirements
- Must be local to and able to travel to our Princeton, NJ office as required
About Springer Publishing
Joining Springer Publishing, means working in an innovative, tech-driven, highly collaborative environment. Our culture is focused on supporting our customers from education to career. Our mission is to build and foster a team of individuals working together to learn, grow and deliver in an environment that empowers everyone to apply their experiences, knowledge, and skills. When you pair great people, with our common purpose, amazing things are possible. Find your place, develop your passion, and build your future with us.
Named one of the fastest-growing independent publishers in the United States by Publishers Weekly, we continue to grow our product portfolio in nursing, public health, healthcare administration, social work, counseling, and medicine.
Join us and grow your career at Springer Publishing!
Interested candidates can forward their letter and resume to: humanresources@springerpub.com
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against applicants due to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability.
