Sr. Data Enablement Specialist

This role combines hands-on data analytics with building enterprise reporting capabilities and data practices.

Over time, it evolves into a leadership position focused on enabling teams, driving data adoption, and shaping the organization's data strategy.

Client Details

Canadian manufacturing company

Key Responsibilities

1. Hands-On Reporting & Analytics

• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports
• Write and optimize SQL queries for data extraction and validation
• Gather and translate business requirements into reporting solutions
• Perform data validation, troubleshooting, and issue resolution
• Deliver ad hoc analysis to support business decisions

2. Data Enablement & Training

• Train and support data stewards and business users
• Deliver workshops, training sessions, and walkthroughs
• Promote data best practices and improve data literacy across teams
• Enable self-service reporting capabilities within business domains

3. Governance & Standards

• Define and maintain KPI definitions, logic, and reporting standards
• Establish and document data governance practices (ownership, access, usage)
• Create documentation, processes, and frameworks for consistent reporting
• Ensure data quality and consistency across analytics outputs

4. Change Management & Transformation

• Support the rollout of IFS ERP and evolving data strategy
• Help transition to a domain-based data model
• Drive adoption of new tools, processes, and ways of working
• Identify opportunities to improve data maturity and scalability

Experience

• 5+ years of experience in data analytics, BI development, or reporting roles in enterprise environments.
• Strong experience delivering hands-on reporting solutions (Power BI, SQL).
• Experience working with ERP systems and enterprise data environments (IFS experience preferred).
• Proven ability to transition from individual contributor to enablement-focused role.
• Experience supporting data governance, training, or data literacy initiatives is highly desirable.
• Experience in organizational change, transformation, or operating model evolution is an asset.

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong Power BI expertise (data modeling, DAX, Power Query, dataset management).
• Advanced SQL skills for data extraction, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Ability to bridge business and technical stakeholders effectively.
• Strong communication and training skills with the ability to simplify complex topics.
• High level of initiative, curiosity, and problem-solving mindset.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguous, evolving environments.

Profile

• Highly hands-on and execution-oriented, with the ability to scale into an enablement leader
• Strong collaborator and influencer across business and technical teams
• Passionate about building data capabilities in others, not just delivering outputs
• Demonstrates curiosity, ownership, and proactive thinking
• Comfortable shaping and evolving a role in a transforming organization

Job Offer

• Opportunity to evolve from hands-on analytics into a data enablement leader
• Direct impact on shaping a modern, domain-driven data function
• Exposure to ERP implementation and enterprise transformation
• Opportunity to build training, governance, and self-service analytics capabilities
• Collaborative role with high visibility across business and IT teams

MPI does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, or based on an individual's status in any group or class otherwise protected under applicable human rights legislation. MPI encourages applications from minorities, women, the disabled and all other qualified applicants