Responsibilities & Qualifications
· Own the data available within the Reporting environment, serving as a resource for the business to understand what data and capabilities currently exist.
· Meet with subject matter experts in different areas of the business, be able to quickly learn the concepts and business language relevant to their line of business and develop an understanding of how their data supports their business processes.
· Ability to transform data into insight can help to improve the value of the business. Design Power BI UX - visualizations, reports, and dashboards to tell stories and uncover insights for actionable analytics via mockups and functional specs.
· Perform BI solution development activities including requirements gathering, data model design, development & testing of reports & dashboards in Power BI. Test reports to ensure optimal user experience and data accuracy. Investigate and resolve any data discrepancies within Power BI datasets and models.
· Partner with Data Engineers to understand the data they make available and use it as the foundation for Power BI reporting and data models
· Build and maintain Power BI semantic data models and datasets sourced from Databricks, including relationships, DAX measures and calculation groups, to support scalable and reusable reporting.
· Create and maintain documentation that includes the design, requirements and user manuals for the organization.
· Facilitate and lead senior IT and business teams through challenging data issues.
· Excellent interpersonal, communication, listening and presentation skills.
· Excellent problem solving and analytical skills.
· Ability to influence and persuade, build consensus, drive and energize teams.
· Apply superior judgment as it pertains to prioritizing work for yourself and others and escalating roadblocks when necessary.
Key Competencies
Accountability: Demonstrates an understanding of the link between one’s own job responsibilities and overall organizational goals and needs, and performs one’s job with the broader goals in mind.
Collaborative Leadership: Promotes and generates cooperation among one’s peers in leadership to achieve a collective outcome; fosters the development of a common vision and fully participates in creating a unified leadership team that results.
Planning and Organizing: Establishes a systematic course of action for self or others to ensure accomplishment of a specific objective. Sets priorities, goals and timetables to achieve maximum productivity. Self-starter with excellent organization, administrative, interpersonal skills and project management
Organizational Understanding: Understands the agendas and perspectives of others, recognizing and effectively balancing the interests and needs of one’s own group with those of the broader organization. Ability to interact cross-functionally with a wide variety of IT and business stakeholders
Technical Expertise: Applies and improves extensive or in-depth specialized knowledge, skills and judgment to accomplish a result or to serve one’s “customers” effectively. (Customers can be co-workers, peers or management as well as external consumers of a service.)
Attention to Detail: Thoroughness in accomplishing a task through concern for all the areas involved, no matter how small. Monitors and checks work or information and plans and organizes time and resources efficiently
Communication: Creates an atmosphere in which timely and high quality information flows smoothly both up and down the organization, inside the organization; encourages open expression of ideas and opinions. Excellent communication, presentation and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics and build consensus among business and technical constituents
General Education & Experience
· Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science or a related field preferred, or equivalent combination of education, training and experience
· 3+ years designing and developing BI reports and data models in Power BI or equivalent BI tools
· 5+ years of relevant experience
· Strong knowledge and experience of data, BI/analytics, reporting platforms and data visualization techniques and tools.
· Experience in Manufacturing or Distribution Industry with knowledge of key KPIs & business processes
· Minimum of 2 years of experience working in a medium to large organization
· Able to work flexible hours as required by business priorities
· Limited travel may be required
Preferred Qualifications
· Experience with Databricks or similar cloud data platforms
· Experience with data modeling and BI architecture design within Power BI (star schema design, DAX, Power Query)
· Experience with modern data/BI architectures
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Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field, or equivalent education, training, and experience
- 3+ years designing and developing BI reports and data models in Power BI or equivalent BI tools
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Strong knowledge and experience with data, BI and analytics, reporting platforms, and data visualization techniques and tools
- Experience in the manufacturing or distribution industry, including knowledge of key KPIs and business processes
- At least 2 years of experience working in a medium to large organization
- Experience with Databricks or similar cloud data platforms
- Experience with Power BI data modeling and BI architecture, including star schema design, DAX, and Power Query
- Experience with modern data and BI architectures
SunSource Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about SunSource and has not been reviewed or approved by SunSource.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Medical, dental, and vision coverage with plan options are offered alongside wellness programs and an EAP. Offerings also include HSA/HRA and FSA choices that broaden the health coverage scope.
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Retirement Support — Retirement Support: A 401(k) with company match is included and called out in employer-provided materials. This provides a clear foundation for long-term savings within the total rewards package.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Leave & Time Off Breadth: Paid vacation and holidays are part of the package, with PTO described as decent and vacation potentially capping near four weeks. These time-off elements contribute to a rounded core benefits menu.
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What We Do
SunSource, a leader in industrial and mobile fluid power distribution for over 85 years, provides customers with innovative solutions that help reduce maintenance costs, lower operating costs and increase productivity. The solutions are part of the SunSource Advantage: a comprehensive program offering design and engineering support; supply chain optimization; productivity solutions; value-added services; and repair capabilities. As a national distributor with local presence, SunSource has a unique and dominant position as a full-service resource for the industrial, OEM, MRO and mobile industrial equipment industries. We distribute a broad range of components, but SunSource is much more than a distributor just supplying fluid power components or systems. Along with high-quality products, we provide a commitment to high-quality customer service and technically sound, cost-effective solutions. SunSource’s history of accomplishment and continued growth means that we give the best condition to energetic, driven people to be effective in their role. We pride ourselves on a culture that provides opportunities for development and advancement of our associates. In addition, we build meaningful relations with our customers, suppliers and internal associates. We are all bound by a pledge to a common mission toward providing the highest quality products and services within our industry and achieving the company’s growth objectives









