Director Operations Analytics
STERIS
United States, Ohio, Mentor
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Salary
$141,737 - $183,425 Per Year
Rank
Director
Responsibility
Design/Transform
Scope
Regional
Workplace
Fully remote
Functions
IT
Supply Chain
Reports to
Level
N-1
Travel Max:
20%
Posting Date
10-13-2025
Description
The Director, Operations Analytics leads the Analytics Center of Excellence (CoE) for STERIS, driving enterprise-wide data governance, analytics strategy, and data literacy across Supply Chain and Operations. This role is accountable for enabling data-driven decision-making, improving operational performance, and aligning analytics initiatives with business priorities. The Director serves as a strategic partner to functional leaders and IT, ensuring analytics capabilities are scalable, trusted, and impactful.
Key Responsibilities
Governance & Strategy
- Define and enforce data governance policies, standards, and quality rules across Supply Chain and Operations.
- Develop and execute the analytics roadmap, including AI/ML, predictive modeling, and business intelligence for improving efficiency, effectiveness, and capabilities of the business.
- Lead the creation of master data strategies and ensure alignment with functional KPIs.
- Serve as a strategic partner in shaping enterprise transformation through data-driven insights and operational intelligence.
Stakeholder Engagement
- Partner with functional SMEs (e.g., VP of Operations, VP of CI) to co-create use cases and drive adoption, recognized as expert managing large, cross-functional projects and processes.
- Collaborate with IT to ensure infrastructure supports analytics needs while retaining policy authority within the CoE.
- Incorporate external data sources and industry benchmarks to contextualize internal performance and identify improvement opportunities.
Talent & Change Leadership
- Build and lead a change network including analytics coaches, business translators, and data stewards.
- Develop and deliver data literacy programs to elevate analytics maturity across the organization.
- Leads team implementation of data designs, models, strategies, and/or processes.
- Coach and mentor analytics talent across the organization, fostering a culture of curiosity, accountability, and continuous learning.
Operational Enablement
- Oversee connector roles that bridge business and technical teams.
- Coordinate stewardship activities with site leaders and managers to ensure data quality and usability.
- Owns stewardship of data insights by inspecting, mining, transforming, and modeling data to raise productivity, improve decision-making, and gain competitive advantage.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives through advanced analytics and performance dashboards.
- Ensure analytics outputs are communicated through compelling narratives and visualizations that drive action and resonate with internal and external stakeholders.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Drive alignment and integration of analytics across key functions including Finance, Quality, and Business Units.
- Leverage existing Quality Analytics organizational models as reference points for structure, governance, and reporting.
- Coordinates and integrates the flow of operations and supply chain information among suppliers, manufacturing locations, and linking into Customers.
- Ensure analytics initiatives support enterprise-wide goals and regulatory standards where applicable.
Qualification & Requirements
The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum 10 years of experience in analytics, supply chain, operations, or digital transformation
- Proven leadership in cross-functional environments, ideally within a shared services or enterprise CoE
- Strong understanding of data governance, analytics platforms (e.g., Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI), and change management
- Excellent communication, stakeholder engagement, and strategic planning skills
Preferred:
- Analytics or Business Bachelor’s degree
- Experience with regulated environments (e.g., ISO, FDA) is a plus
Other:
- Experienced in direct oversight of analytics staff and connector roles
- Proven abilities to coach, review, and delegate work to lower level analysts and/or specialists
- Experience with indirect influence over functional data stewards and change agents
Benefits
Here is a brief overview of what we offer:
- Market competitive pay
- Extensive paid time off and (9) added holidays
- Excellent healthcare, dental, and vision benefits
- Long/short term disability coverage
- 401(K) with company match
- Maternity and parental leave
- Additional add on benefits/discounts for programs such as pet insurance
- Tuition reimbursement and continued educational programs
- Excellent opportunities for advancement in a stable long-term career
Company Profile
STERIS
Industry
Medical Equipment Manufacturing
Revenue
$26.4B
Employees
5,700
Fortune 500 Rank
NA
Global 500 Rank
NA
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