Data, BI & Digital Enablement Manager

This role sits at the intersection of business intelligence, governance, systems integration, analytics delivery, and AI transformation . You’ll help turn information into decisions, AI into capability, and complexity into clarity. You’ll lead the charge in shaping how Montego uses data as a strategic asset — while ensuring our analytics ecosystem remains governed, scalable, commercially relevant, and actually useful to the humans making decisions. If you can speak fluent Power BI, think in data models, challenge business assumptions constructively, and use AI tools like they’re part of your daily toolkit (because they should be), keep reading. What You’ll Be Owning Data Strategy & Governance You’ll define and drive Montego’s long-term Data & Analytics Strategy, ensuring it aligns with operational priorities, business growth, and our AI transformation roadmap. You’ll: Establish and govern enterprise-wide Data Governance practices Drive data quality, stewardship, classification, lineage, and access controls Ensure POPIA compliance across all data activities Chair cross-functional Data Governance forums Maintain structured metadata and data dictionary practices Lead response management for data incidents, governance breaches, and integration failures Business Intelligence & Analytics Delivery You’ll oversee Montego’s BI ecosystem — ensuring reports don’t just exist… they drive action. You’ll: Govern the Power BI environment, standards, access, and reporting structures Manage the analytics delivery pipeline from intake to published insight Oversee executive, operational, and analytical reporting across the business Leverage AI tools like Copilot and Claude to accelerate analytics capability Ensure analytical outputs are accurate, relevant, and actively adopted Establish quality assurance and validation standards across reporting and analytics Data Integration & Business Systems Intelligence You’ll act as the strategic bridge between business systems and the analytics layer. That means: Governing how data flows between systems like Dynamics 365, HubSpot, Repsly, Sage 300, and our analytics environment Defining integration, extraction, and transformation requirements Ensuring data structures are analytically usable Partnering closely with the IT Business Applications function Maintaining oversight of data quality, consistency, and integrity across systems AI Leadership & Adoption Enablement AI adoption at Montego is not a “future initiative.” It’s already happening. Help the business move faster — responsibly, strategically, and without unnecessary bureaucracy. You’ll: Lead and champion AI adoption across the organisation Drive AI enablement alongside the AI Transformation Lead Define and execute the AI adoption roadmap Model AI-native behaviour personally Sponsor AI initiatives visibly across leadership structures Create governance guardrails that enable progress rather than block it Leadership & Team Management You’ll lead a growing capability area and help shape the culture around it. You’ll: Manage and develop the Data Platform Manager and AI Transformation Lead Build a culture of accountability, curiosity, and continuous improvement Establish AI literacy as a baseline team expectation Participate in hiring and capability development Live and reinforce Montego’s culture and values daily Prioritisation & Delivery Governance Not every request can be “urgent.” You’ll help the business understand what matters most — and why. You’ll: Operate a structured intake and prioritisation process Maintain transparent delivery pipelines and stakeholder communication Participate in digital steering and prioritisation forums Manage delivery risk and escalate blockers proactively Ensure commitments are either met or responsibly renegotiated