Director Operations Analytics

Position Summary

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.

What You’ll do as a Director Operations Analytics

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.

The Experience, Skills, and Abilities Needed

Required:

• 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:

• 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

Domestic and international travel 10–20%
Office-based with flexibility for remote collaboration
Occasional presence in manufacturing or operations centers

What STERIS Offers

We value our employees and are committed to providing a comprehensive benefits package that supports your health, well-being, and financial future. 

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 

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