**Business Unit Lead - Data & Analytics**
📍 Location: Stockholm
💼 Type: Permanent
🗣️ Language: Swedish required
**A Rare Opportunity to Lead a Strategic Data & AI Function**
These roles don’t come up often - and when they do, they define careers.
We’re hiring a
**Business Unit Lead**
to head up the Data & Analytics division for a specialised BI client of ours in Sweden. This is a high-impact, senior leadership role with full visibility across the organisation and European operations. You’ll be the driving force behind the company’s data strategy, analytics innovation, and AI transformation.
🔧 What You’ll Do
As the Business Unit Lead, you’ll be responsible for shaping and executing a bold vision for data and analytics across the business. Your remit will span strategy, delivery, innovation, and leadership:
🧭 Data Strategy & Roadmap
- Develop and refine a comprehensive data and AI strategy aligned with business goals.
- Identify opportunities where analytics, machine learning, and generative AI can unlock competitive advantage, drive efficiency, and fuel growth.
- Champion data-driven decision-making across all levels of the organisation.
👥 Leadership & Team Management
- Lead a multidisciplinary team of data scientists, engineers, BI analysts, and visualisation experts.
- Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Set clear goals, inspire passion for data, and coach talent to reach their full potential.
🛠️ Analytics Solution Delivery
- Oversee the design and implementation of robust, scalable analytics solutions.
- Guide the architecture of data warehouses/lakes, ensure data quality and governance, and implement modern analytics platforms.
- Leverage experience with large-scale BI deployments to deliver high-impact solutions.
🤝 Business Integration
- Partner with business units (finance, operations, marketing, etc.) to embed analytics into decision-making.
- Translate complex data into compelling insights and recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- Use data storytelling and visualisation to communicate clearly and drive action.
🔬 Innovation & AI Oversight
- Stay ahead of emerging technologies in data science and AI.
- Evaluate and implement multi-vendor AI solutions tailored to business needs.
- Explore new frontiers like generative AI, balancing innovation with practicality.
- Make strategic decisions on build vs. buy for analytics tools and platforms.
🔐 Governance & Trust
- Establish strong data governance and ethical AI guidelines.
- Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all analytics activities.
- Champion transparency in AI models to build trust in automated insights.
🔗 Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with IT, product development, and external partners to enhance data capabilities.
- Act as an internal evangelist for data culture, educating teams on how to leverage data effectively.
- Represent the business in industry forums and strategic partnerships.
📈 Performance Monitoring
- Define KPIs for data initiatives and regularly report on their impact.
- Use a results-oriented approach to measure how analytics improves business metrics.
- Continuously refine strategy based on performance outcomes.
🧠 What You’ll Bring
- Proven leadership experience in MS BI & Data environments
- Strong track record in selling and delivering data projects
- Deep understanding of data architecture, analytics platforms, and business intelligence tools
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
- Fluency in Swedish and a consultative, client-first mindset
- Experience with or ambition to take on P&L responsibility
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
🌟 Why This Role?
- **Strategic Visibility**
: Work directly with European leadership and shape one of the most important business units in Sweden.
- **Growth Potential**
: This is a long-term leadership role with room to expand into broader responsibilities across the Nordics or Europe.
- **Impact**
: Data & Analytics is the second largest team in Sweden - your leadership will directly influence its success and evolution.
- **Culture**
: Join a company that values innovation, autonomy, and collaboration.
📩 If you’re a senior data leader ready to take the reins and lead from the front, this is your moment. Apply now or reach out for a confidential chat.
