Responsible for advancing SQFI's business intelligence and analytics capability by transforming certification, audit, customer, and financial data into insight that drives decisions. This role owns the reporting and data quality foundation across SQFI, partnering with other teams, IT, and vendors to build dashboards, develop predictive and AI-assisted analysis, and deliver executive-ready recommendations that strengthen operational efficiency and the integrity of SQFI certification.
Essential Job Functions:
- Analytics & Data Engineering: Build and maintain the data models, pipelines, and semantic layers that turn certification, audit, customer, and financial data into reliable analytics assets. Develop dashboards and reporting in Power BI, write advanced SQL against SQFI's cloud data warehouse, and apply Python and AI-assisted methods to surface trends, forecast outcomes, and answer questions leadership hasn't thought to ask yet.
- Data Integration: Facilitate the integration of data from disparate systems to ensure consistency and reliability for analysis and reporting.
- Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify, document, and prioritize business requirements and system enhancements.
- Process Improvement: Identify and implement process optimizations to streamline SQFI’s audit management system, data, and associated workflows. Lead ongoing reviews of business processes and develop optimizations strategies.
- Stakeholder Collaboration: Engage with internal teams, vendors, and external stakeholders to define, refine, and manage project scope and requirements.
- Documentation & Reporting: Create clear, detailed and well-structured documentation, including functional specifications, process maps, data models, reports, visualizations and dashboards to communicate findings and KPIs to senior management.
- Testing & Validation: Lead testing efforts to ensure system modifications meet business requirements, coordinating UAT (User Acceptance Testing) and resolving issues.
- Change Management: Support change management processes by assessing impact, planning, and executing implementation strategies for system updates.
- Training & Support: Train business users on new systems and enhancements. Offer ongoing support post-implementation to ensure smooth transitions and optimal system use.
- Collaboration: Partner with cross-functional teams to develop and implement data-driven solutions.
- Make Recommendations: Must be able to deliver effective solutions to leadership that provide tangible benefits within short timeframes. Identify specific business opportunities and ways to capitalize on them.
- Project Management: Lead or support projects aimed at improving SQFI information systems, ensuring projects are delivered on time and within budget.
Other Job Functions:
- Other responsibilities and duties as assigned or directed.
Physical Requirements:
- Normal office environment requiring the use of typical business equipment (e.g., computer, telephone, fax, copier, etc.).
- The person in this position will be eligible to work a hybrid work schedule Monday through Thursday requiring a minimum of two days in the office per week during that four-day period. Every Friday will be a remote workday (unless business needs require the person to be in the office).
Required Skills and Experience:
- Minimum of three to five years of experience as a Business Analyst, preferably within a food safety, regulatory, or audit environment.
- A college degree in Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Administration, Engineering, Finance or a related field.
- Strong experience with: Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, data analysis tools, data integration and reporting tools like Statistical Analytical Systems (SAS), Power BI, Tableau or similar tools, Python, and SQL.
- Knowledge of Power Platform automation is a plus.
- Proven experience in process documentation, data analysis, and project management methodologies both traditional and Agile/Scrum.
- Experience with audit management systems or familiarity with certification standards is a plus.
- Must be able to use logical, analytical and critical thinking skills to look at a problem using a big picture approach and consider multiple options. Must be a problem solver.
- Ability to extract and summarize data in a manner to tell a story.
- Computer and internet expertise with an excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office products, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams and Outlook. Familiarity with artificial intelligence tools is a plus.
- Good people skills with the ability to work well with various colleagues across the organization to build relationships with stakeholders.
- Expert level written and verbal communication skills (including the ability to generate clear and concise reports, presentations and other documents summarizing data findings). Public speaking experience is required.
- Must be self-directed with strong organizational and project management skills that reflect an ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail and with minimal supervision.
- Ability to thrive in a fluid, fast-paced work environment.
- Personal qualities must include drive, determination, flexibility, open-mindedness, and must be a highly resourceful collaborator.
Pay Range: $87,000 to $114,900 (annually)
- This salary range reflects the minimum and maximum annual compensation for this position and has been established in good faith and in accordance with Virginia and federal law. Individual salary offers within this range will be based on the candidate's relevant experience, education, skills, certifications, and other job-related factors.
EOE Statement
FMI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We will consider applicants for this position without regard to any category protected by applicable federal, state or local law, including but not limited to: race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status or uniformed service member status.
FMI represents food retailers and wholesalers and develops and promotes policies, programs and forums supporting its members, their customers and supplier partners, and other industry stakeholders in the areas of:
- food and product safety and defense;
- industry collaboration and networking;
- social, environmental and sustainability programs; and
By pursuing these activities, FMI provides leadership and advocacy for the food and consumer product industry worldwide as the industry innovates to meet the changing needs of its customers.
