Role Summary
The Principal Analytics Analyst is a thought leader and strategic driver for the commercial analytics semantic layer and BI user experience. This role influences the development and drives the execution of the analytics platform operating plan, establishing the enterprise-wide vision for how commercial data is modeled, governed, and consumed by business users. The Principal Analyst shapes semantic layer strategy, governs metric standards across Regions and Business Units, leads the most complex multi-stakeholder BI programs, and serves as an expert voice in cross-functional forums on data product strategy, analytics governance, and self-service enablement at scale.
Key Responsibilities
Enterprise Semantic Layer Strategy & Vision
- Define and drive the enterprise semantic layer strategy for commercial analytics, establishing the long-term vision for how business metrics, dimensions, and hierarchies are governed and consumed globally.
- Set the direction for semantic layer architecture across tooling platforms, ensuring scalability, consistency, and alignment to enterprise data governance standards.
- Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of semantic layer and BI platform capabilities in partnership with IT, Data Engineering, and enterprise architecture teams.
- Serve as the authoritative voice on semantic layer design trade-offs, resolving escalated conflicts between business metric definitions and physical data model constraints.
Global Self-Service Analytics Enablement
- Own the global self-service analytics strategy, defining the operating model, tooling standards, and enablement programs that allow commercial users across all Regions and Business Units to access governed insights independently.
- Lead the design of modular, reusable analytics asset libraries that eliminate bespoke reporting and accelerate insight delivery across the commercial organization.
- Define self-service maturity frameworks and adoption metrics, using data to prioritize investments and demonstrate the business value of analytics platform improvements.
- Champion data literacy across the commercial organization through executive-level enablement programs, community of practice initiatives, and stakeholder education.
Analytics User Experience & Interface Excellence
- Define UX/UI standards and design principles for the commercial analytics interface, ensuring that dashboards and reporting surfaces are intuitive, performant, and aligned to user needs at all levels of the organization.
- Lead the design of the most strategically critical BI dashboards and executive reporting surfaces, in close partnership with senior commercial leaders.
- Establish a governed component and template library for BI development across the analytics team, enabling consistent, high-quality delivery at scale.
- Drive continuous improvement of the analytics user experience through structured feedback loops, usability research, and adoption analytics.
Metric Governance & Commercial Data Standards
- Partner with Commercial Data Product Strategy to co-own the enterprise business glossary, metric registry, and commercial KPI framework.
- Lead cross-functional forums to align commercial stakeholders, data engineering, and governance teams on metric definitions, calculation methodologies, and data lineage.
- Resolve escalated metric conflicts and discrepancies across Regions, Business Units, and reporting platforms, establishing single sources of truth for key commercial KPIs.
- Ensure all semantic layer assets meet data governance, privacy, and access control requirements in partnership with enterprise data governance teams.
Agentic AI Development & Training
- Define and drive the enterprise strategy for agentic AI integration within the commercial analytics platform, establishing the vision for how AI agents consume, generate, and augment governed semantic layer assets.
- Lead the architecture and governance of AI training data programs, ensuring commercial analytics outputs used for model development meet quality, lineage, and compliance standards.
- Partner with Decision Science & AI and enterprise architecture teams to define reference architectures for agentic AI workflows embedded in commercial reporting, forecasting, and decision intelligence use cases.
- Establish enterprise-wide standards for prompt engineering, AI output validation, and human-in-the-loop governance across commercial analytics agentic workflows.
- Represent the analytics function in senior cross-functional forums on AI platform strategy, contributing to investment decisions, risk governance, and responsible AI frameworks.
- Mentor JG3 and JG4 analysts in agentic AI development and training practices, fostering a culture of responsible, governed AI adoption within the commercial analytics team.
- Track and assess the maturity of agentic AI capabilities across the commercial analytics ecosystem, defining roadmap priorities and success metrics that align to enterprise AI strategy.
Strategic Influence, Leadership & Team Development
- Provide strategic technical leadership across the analytics team, influencing the roadmap, tooling decisions, and delivery model for semantic layer and BI functions.
- Mentor and develop JG3 and JG4 analysts, establishing a culture of craftsmanship, continuous improvement, and stakeholder focus.
- Represent the analytics function in senior cross-functional forums, contributing to enterprise data strategy, platform investment decisions, and analytics governance.
- Partner with Commercial Decision Science & AI teams to ensure semantic layer assets support AI model explainability, output visualization, and executive decision dashboards.
- Contribute to the hiring, onboarding, and capability development of the broader analytics team in partnership with the analytics engineering lead.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Business Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field required. Advanced degree strongly preferred.
- 6+ years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, or data analysis, with increasing scope and seniority.
- Deep expertise in enterprise semantic layer design and governance across one or more platforms (e.g., LookML/Looker, AtScale, dbt Metrics, Power BI Semantic Models, Microsoft Fabric).
- Proven track record driving enterprise-scale self-service analytics programs across multiple Business Units or Regions.
- Advanced SQL skills and strong working knowledge of cloud data platforms (e.g., Snowflake, BigQuery, Databricks).
- Demonstrated experience as a thought leader in analytics — shaping platform strategy, metric standards, or BI architecture direction.
- Deep understanding of commercial data domains: revenue, pipeline/opportunity, forecasting, pricing/CPQ, territory/account planning, and commercial KPIs.
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder influence skills, with experience presenting to and advising senior business leaders.
- Experience partnering with data governance, data engineering, and decision science functions in a matrixed, global organization.
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience defining and implementing enterprise metric frameworks, KPI registries, or commercial data glossaries.
- Hands-on experience with multiple semantic layer platforms and the ability to advise on tool selection and migration.
- Familiarity with AI/ML output visualization, model explainability dashboards, and decision intelligence use cases.
- Experience in MedTech, Life Sciences, or similarly regulated and complex commercial environments.
- Global experience leading analytics programs that serve multiple Regions and Business Units with shared assets.
- Prior experience in a principal, staff, or lead analyst role with informal or formal people leadership responsibilities.
At BD, we prioritize on-site collaboration because we believe it fosters creativity, innovation, and effective problem-solving, which are essential in the fast-paced healthcare industry. For most roles, we require a minimum of 4 days of in-office presence per week to maintain our culture of excellence and ensure smooth operations, while also recognizing the importance of flexibility and work-life balance. Remote or field-based positions will have different workplace arrangements which will be indicated in the job posting.
At BD, we are committed to supporting our associates’ well-being, development, and success through a performance-based culture. For this position, BD offers a competitive compensation package along with the following benefits specific to this role:
Health and Well-being Benefits
- Medical coverage, Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, Dental coverage, Vision coverage, Hospital Care Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Injury Insurance, Life and AD&D insurance, Short-term disability coverage, Long-term disability insurance, Long-term care with life insurance.
Other Well-being Resources
- Anxiety management program, wellness incentives, sleep improvement program, diabetes management program, virtual physical therapy, emotional/mental health support programs, weight management programs, gastrointestinal health program, substance use management program, musculoskeletal surgery, cancer treatment, and bariatric surgery benefit.
Retirement and Financial Well-being
- BD 401(k) Plan, BD Deferred Compensation and Restoration Plan, 529 College Savings Plan, financial counseling, Baxter Credit Union (BCU), Daily Pay, college financialaidand application guidance.
Life Balance Programs
- Paid time off (PTO), including all required State leaves, educational assistance/tuition reimbursement, MetLife Legal Plan, group auto and home insurance, pet insurance, commuter benefits, discounts on products and services, Academic Achievement Scholarship, Service Recognition Awards, employer matching donation, workplace accommodations.
Other Life Balance Programs
- Adoptionassistance, backup day care and eldercare, support for neurodivergent adults, children, and caregivers, caregivingassistancefor elderly and special needs individuals, Employee Assistance Program (EAP), paid parental leave, support for fertility, birthing, postpartum, and age-related hormonal changes.
Leave Programs
- Bereavement leaves, Military leave, Personal leave, Family and Medical Leave (FML),Juryand Witness Duty Leave.
Why Join Us?
To find purpose in the possibilities, we need people who can see the bigger picture, who understand the human story that underpins everything we do. We welcome people with the imagination and drive to help us reinvent the future of healthcare. At BD, you’ll discover a culture in which you can learn, grow and thrive.
We believe that when people connect in person, we learn faster, collaborate more deeply, and build a stronger culture. Join us and enjoy a culture where face-to-face collaboration supports your learning, your progress, and your success.
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