Manager, AI and Business Intelligence

Title: Manager, AI and Business Intelligence (Sr. Individual Contributor)

Job Type: Direct Hire/Perm

Location: Hudson, OH

Onsite/Travel Requirements: Onsite, M-F

Eligibility : This role is not open to current or future sponsorship, or C2C partnerships

Job Description

Wright Technical Services is proud to represent a manufacturing company specializing in engineering components for OEMs for this position. The Manager of AI and BI will be creating the company’s management-information and automation layer: one trusted set of operating and financial dashboards, governed data definitions, and practical AI-enabled workflows that improve decision speed, accountability, and productivity. This role must personally build the first solutions while establishing a scalable architecture and adoption model.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building business intelligence, analytics, automation, or data products in a manufacturing, distribution, or operational environment.
• Advanced Power BI capability: DAX, Power Query, data modeling, row-level security, deployment, performance tuning, and user-centered dashboard design.
• Strong SQL and practical experience integrating ERP, CRM, spreadsheets, data warehouses/lakes, and APIs. Microsoft Fabric/Azure experience is preferred.
• Direct Power Automate/Power Apps experience, working knowledge of Copilot Studio or comparable AI orchestration tools.
• Can map business processes, challenge weak requirements, define metrics, and communicate technical tradeoffs to non-technical leaders.
• Demonstrated governance mindset: data quality, security, documentation, testing, change control, and responsible AI.

Leadership Skills

• Business-first and intensely curious; starts with the decision, not the tool.
• Fast builder who can ship a useful version, learn, and improve without creating technical debt.
• Strong enough to challenge executives with definitions and process discipline.
• Teaches users and builds adoption; does not become the only person who understands the system.
• Prioritizes measurable enterprise value over novelty.

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with executives and functional leaders to translate business decisions into metrics, data products, workflows, and prioritized use cases.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards for revenue, forecast, backlog, margin, pricing, launches, quality, delivery, capacity, labor, inventory, cash, and Project Forge execution.
• Create governed semantic models, data definitions, lineage, refresh controls, and role-based access across ERP, CRM, quality, operations, and financial sources.
• Automate manual reporting and approval workflows using Microsoft Power Platform, APIs, and fit-for-purpose AI tools.
• Deploy practical AI use cases such as variance explanation, document extraction, knowledge retrieval, exception detection, and executive decision support—with human controls and measurable value.
• Own dashboard accuracy, adoption, documentation, training, and release discipline; eliminate spreadsheet proliferation and conflicting versions of the truth.
• Partner with the Director of IT on security, identity, infrastructure, integration, and data-governance standards.
• Build a sequenced analytics/automation roadmap tied to EBITDA, cash, customer service, risk, and leadership productivity.

First 12-Month Outcomes

• Executive dashboard live with agreed definitions and accountable data owners.
• Automated S&OP and operating-review reporting with materially reduced manual preparation.
• Three to five production AI/automation use cases with measured time, cash, quality, or margin benefit.
• Documented data model, access controls, development standards, and backlog governance.
• High adoption across leadership and functional teams; retirement of redundant reports.

Wright Technical Services and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.