Career-change guide
Operations manager to Business intelligence analyst
Moving from operations manager to business intelligence analyst is common, and your experience counts for more than a keyword scan suggests. Here's what carries over, what to add, and how to prove it.
- NowOperations manager
- Bridge roleOperations analytics / reporting lead
- GoalBusiness intelligence analyst
What carries over
- KPIs and dashboards
- You already run the business on metrics: name the KPIs you owned and the targets you hit.
- Stakeholder management
- Turning numbers into decisions for leaders is the BI job.
- Process improvement
- Show a change you led and the metric that proved it.
Only claim what you actually did. Related experience is a strength when you explain it, not when you rename it.
What to learn
- SQL
- Power BI or Tableau, including data modelling
- DAX or calculated fields
- Data quality basics
Proof to build
- A star-schema dashboard for an operations dataset with three decision-ready views
- Document a metric definition end to end: source, logic, owner
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