Power BI Administrator - Greencore : Job Details

Why Greencore?

We're a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make everyday taste better.

We're a vibrant, fast-paced leading food manufacturer. Employing around 13,600 colleagues across 16 manufacturing units and 17 distribution depots across the UK. We supply all the UK's food retailers with everything from Sandwiches, soups and sushi to cooking sauces, pickles and ready meals, and in FY23, we generated revenues of £1.9bn.

Our vast direct-to-store (DTS) distribution network, comprising of 17 depots nationwide, enables us to make over 10,400 daily deliveries of our own chilled and frozen produce and that of third parties.

Why we embarked on Making Business Easier?

Over time processes have become increasingly complex, increasing both the risk and cost they pose, whilst restricting our agility. At the same time, our customers and the market expect more from us than ever before. Making Business Easier forms a fundamental foundation for our commercial and operational excellence agendas, whilst supporting managing our cost base effectively in the future.

The MBE Programme will streamline and simplify core processes, provide easier access to quality business data and will invest in the right technology to enable these processes.

Why is this exciting for your career as a Power BI Administrator?

The MBE Programme presents a huge opportunity for colleagues across the technology function to play a central role in the design, shape, delivery and execution of an enterprise-wide digital transformation programme. The complexity of the initiative, within a FTSE 250 business, will allow for large-scale problem solving, group wide impact assessment and supporting the delivery of an enablement project to future proof the business.

You will be a key member of the IT Services team, responsible for supporting the ERP/System 21 Centre of Excellence by managing, configuring, and optimizing Power BI environments. The role will focus on enhancing reporting capabilities, enabling data-driven decision-making, driving user adoption, and improving business performance.

What you'll be doing:

• Work closely with business users, IT teams, and stakeholders to ensure smooth rollout, ongoing improvements, and increased user adoption of Power BI as the enterprise-wide business intelligence tool
• Oversee the Power BI environment, including report and dashboard deployment, user access management, and capacity planning. Ensuring that Power BI services run efficiently and securely
• Monitor the performance and usage of Power BI reports and dashboards, ensuring timely issue resolution and optimizing report performance
• manage user roles, permissions, and security for Power BI workspaces, ensuring compliance with company data governance policies
• Coordinate the publishing of reports and dashboards, ensuring that data is accurate, up-to-date, and accessible to the right stakeholders
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting for Power BI-related issues, including connectivity issues, data refresh failures, and report generation errors
• Collaborate with business users, subject matter experts to understand reporting requirements and translate them into actionable Power BI solutions
• Develop training materials, conduct workshops, and provide ongoing support to users to drive higher adoption and self-service analytics. Facilitate knowledge transfer across teams. You will continuously assess and recommend improvements to Power BI usage, dashboards, and reports to enhance usability, performance, and business value
• Responsible for reporting and analytics ensuring data quality and relevance ensuring maximum user adoption and engagement from the business

What we're looking for:

• Power BI Expertise: Strong hands-on experience with Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, and Power BI Report Server. Expertise in developing interactive reports, dashboards, and data models

• Experience in Power BI tenant administration, workspace management, data refresh schedules, and troubleshooting Power BI-related issues

• Strong understanding of best practices for designing user-friendly and visually impactful reports and dashboards

• Proficiency in integrating data from multiple sources (e.g., ERP / System 21, SQL databases, Excel, APIs) into Power BI, including the use of Power Query and DAX for data transformations

• Experience with ERP systems, particularly System 21 or similar platforms, is highly desirable. Ability to integrate ERP data into BI solutions effectively

• Solid understanding of SQL, relational databases, and data warehouses. Experience with database queries, views, and stored procedures to extract and analyse data

• Ability to understand business needs and translate them into actionable data insights. Familiarity with key business KPIs and metrics

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work cross-functionally and engage with both technical and non-technical stakeholders

• Experience in providing training and support to end users, driving system adoption, and helping organizations achieve self-service analytics

What you'll get in return:

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Holidays
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on the job training and development opportunities to further your career.