Hybrid Power BI Consultant

at Ness Digital Engineering

• Job title: Power BI Consultant
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior, Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Ontario, Canada

About the role

• Business Systems Analyst supporting digital transformation initiatives within retail. Bridging Product, Merchandising, Content, and Technology teams while leveraging Power BI analytics.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Product Management, Merchandising, Pricing, Supply Chain, and Digital teams to understand retail strategies, product objectives, and operational needs.
• Translate business and product needs into clear functional, data, and reporting requirements , including user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Support initiatives across the product lifecycle , including assortment planning, SKU onboarding, pricing and promotion changes, and product rationalization.
• Analyze impacts of changes across core retail, digital, and analytics ecosystems , ensuring alignment with enterprise standards.
• Support product content management capabilities including product attributes, hierarchy, digital content, and enrichment processes.
• Work with business and technology teams to define requirements for product data consistency and completeness across systems such as PIM/PCM platforms, and downstream analytical systems.
• Ensure alignment of product content definitions, hierarchies, and metadata to support search, browse, and reporting use cases.
• Partner with data and digital teams to improve product content quality, governance, and lifecycle controls.
• Design, develop, and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports focused on product performance, sales, margin, inventory, and content completeness.
• Collaborate with data engineering and analytics teams to define KPIs, metrics, and semantic models.
• Deliver executive‑ready insights for senior leadership, ensuring clarity, accuracy, and actionable outcomes.
• Enable self‑service analytics through effective documentation, metric definitions, and report enablement.
• Act as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders by challenging assumptions, identifying gaps, and proposing practical, data‑driven solutions.
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions to align on product, content, and analytics requirements.
• Ensure adherence to data quality, governance, security, and non‑functional requirements across solutions.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience as a Business Systems Analyst / Business Analyst within a retail or consumer‑facing enterprise environment.
• Strong understanding of retail product domains , including assortment, pricing, promotions, inventory, and product hierarchies.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Product Content Management (PCM / PIM) or product data capabilities.
• Proven hands‑on Power BI expertise , including: Dashboard and report development, Data modeling and DAX.
• Strong ability to translate complex business needs into functional, data, and analytics requirements.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience engaging cross‑functional teams and senior leadership.
• Experience within large‑scale retail organizations and multi‑banner environments (preferred).
• Familiarity with product‑centric Agile teams and modern delivery practices (preferred).
• Experience working with enterprise data platforms, data warehouses, or cloud analytics ecosystems (preferred).
• Exposure to digital commerce, product search, or content enrichment processes (preferred).