Director of Analytics, Interim

Description

Summary: Seeking an Interim Director of Analytics to provide leadership stability, drive AI-assisted analytics transformation, and establish a durable operating model within the CTO group. Highlights: 1. Lead analytics strategy and transformation, including AI-enabled analytics. 2. Full functional leadership over analytics priorities and team performance. 3. Impactful work for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. N\-iX is a global software development service company that helps businesses across the globe create next\-generation software products. Founded in 2002, we unite 2,400\+ tech\-savvy professionals across 40\+ countries, working on impactful projects for industry leaders and Fortune 500 companies. Our expertise spans cloud, data, AI/ML, embedded software, IoT, and more, driving digital transformation across finance, manufacturing, telecom, healthcare, and other industries. Join N\-iX and become part of a team where your ideas make a real impact. We are looking for an **Interim Director of Analytics** to join our CTO group and to provide immediate leadership stability, drive an at\-risk transformation involving AI\-assisted analytics tooling and governed workflow automation, and set a durable operating model ahead of a permanent leadership handover. This is a full functional leadership assignment, not a coordination\-only role: the interim director carries temporary accountability for analytics priorities, people leadership, stakeholder outcomes, and operating performance across the client's core business domains. **Requirements:** * Substantial senior leadership experience as a Director of Analytics, Head of Analytics, or equivalent, with accountability for multiple analytics teams, team leads, business outcomes, and operational performance. * Demonstrated ability to take over a function or at\-risk portfolio, establish credibility quickly, stabilize delivery, define a realistic target state, and translate it into a short dated plan with clear owners and measurable outcomes. * Strong portfolio and business\-partnership experience across Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Data Engineering, and senior leadership, including the ability to make and communicate difficult prioritization and capacity trade\-offs. * Proven people leadership across countries or time zones, with credibility in hiring, onboarding, coaching, performance management, succession, organizational design, reorganizations, and difficult people decisions. * Ability to establish a durable analytics operating model: clear decision rights, empowered team leads, consistent intake and prioritization, quality standards, stakeholder routines, and outcome\-based performance management * Experience steering AI\-enabled analytics transformation using benchmarks, quality gates, adoption and value metrics, stakeholder validation, governed self\-service, and controlled rollout to business users. * Sound judgment in balancing innovation with operational continuity, analytical integrity, spend, security, privacy, scope, and production quality, with enough technical depth to challenge weak assumptions and expose hidden risk. * Executive\-level communication and influence, including concise performance reporting, decision framing, conflict resolution, vendor management, and the ability to work effectively as an external leader within delegated authority. * Advanced English skills. * Opportunity to travel within Europe or globally once per month. **Responsibilities:** * Rapidly assess the function's current state and establish a clear interim mandate, target state, and 30/60/90\-day plan covering operational continuity, critical risks, transformation priorities, decision dates, accountable owners, and measurable outcomes * Own the analytics strategy and portfolio for the interim period, align work to the highest\-value business priorities, and make explicit choices about what to accelerate, defer, stop, or resource differently * Clarify decision rights, responsibilities, and interfaces among domain analysts, team leads, internal platform and engineering partners, and business stakeholders so the function can operate with pace * Lead team leads and analysts through clear objectives, outcome\-based accountability, regular coaching, and consistent performance expectations, in partnership with internal People leadership on sensitive decisions * Own capacity and workforce priorities for the interim period, including coverage, hiring and onboarding needs, critical skill gaps, and the allocation of scarce capacity between business\-as\-usual support and transformation work * Own the integrated AI\-native transformation roadmap from current\-state diagnosis through rollout readiness, benchmark cycles, governed adoption, stabilization, and handover * Set and enforce quality gates for AI\-enabled analytics, including benchmark performance, stakeholder validation, adoption measures, and clear thresholds for moving from experimentation into normal operations * Represent Data Analytics with senior business and technology stakeholders; establish transparent intake, prioritization, service expectations, and decision forums * Maintain one executive view of function health covering outcomes, delivery, analytical quality, people and capacity, adoption, risks, dependencies, and decisions, escalating with concrete path\-to\-green options * Resolve cross\-functional dependencies and conflicts across Analytics, Product, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Data Engineering, and document a structured handover plan for permanent leadership. **We offer\*:** * Flexible working format \- remote, office\-based or flexible * A competitive salary and good compensation package * Personalized career growth * Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more) * Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing * Education reimbursement * Memorable anniversary presents * Corporate events and team buildings * Other location\-specific benefits * not applicable for freelancers