Regional Business Intelligence Lead – APAC Marketing & Commercial Analyst

Waters is seeking a strategic, hands-on leader to drive data transformation across Asia Pacific as our Regional Business Intelligence Lead. In this high-impact role, you will develop and execute the regional data and insights strategy, partnering closely with commercial, marketing, and global analytics teams to influence business decisions and accelerate performance.

This role offers a unique opportunity to lead the evolution of data infrastructure and analytics capabilities for a global life sciences company. You’ll work cross-functionally across highly matrixed teams to build a single source of truth, automate reporting, and deliver insights that drive regional strategy and commercial outcomes.

If you’re an experienced analyst with a passion for turning data into business impact — and ready to lead a growing function — this role is the ideal next step in your career.

This role is ideal for a rising leader in business intelligence who wants to influence strategy, own data capabilities regionally, and directly contribute to commercial success in a high-growth, science-led company.

The position may require occasional travel, both domestic and international with Hybrid or Remote Flexibility

Data Strategy & Infrastructure

• Define and implement APAC’s business intelligence and analytics roadmap.
• Build and maintain regional data pipelines and reporting systems aligned with global standards.
• Oversee data integration from multiple sources (1st and 3rd party) into a unified performance view.
• Ensure data governance, accuracy, and consistency across commercial KPIs.

Performance Analytics & Insights

• Deliver actionable insights across sales, marketing, campaigns, and e-commerce performance.
• Conduct deep-dive analyses on product, portfolio, customer behavior, and market share.
• Lead regular risk assessments and business continuity analysis for regional markets.
• Generate customer intelligence (demographics, patterns, and behavioral correlations).

Stakeholder Enablement & Collaboration

• Act as the regional BI liaison to global analytics teams.
• Conduct training, demos, and enablement sessions to increase adoption of data tools.
• Collaborate closely with product marketing leaders, regional managers, and commercial teams to align on business priorities.
• Lead stakeholder engagement with clarity, transparency, and results.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in statistics, data science, mathematics, engineering, economics, or business analytics.
• 5+ years of experience in marketing, commercial, or business analytics roles.
• Proven experience leading data-driven initiatives and cross-functional analytics projects.
• Strong communication skills with ability to translate data insights into strategic recommendations.

 Technical Skills:

• Proficiency in SQL, Python, Power BI, and Excel (VBA, PowerPivot).
• Experience working with large datasets and cloud environments (Azure preferred).
• Skilled in setting up data warehouses, ETL processes, and automated dashboards.
• Familiarity with workflow automation, web scraping, and data protection best practices

Nice to haves:

• Knowledge of Salesforce, SAP, Google Analytics, and other digital marketing platforms.
• Exposure to machine learning applications (e.g., regression, classification, time series).
• Background in life sciences or experience supporting scientific/commercial teams.

Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT), the world's leading specialty measurement company, has pioneered chromatography, mass spectrometry and thermal analysis innovations serving the life, materials, and food sciences for over 60 years. With approximately 8,000 employees worldwide, Waters operates directly in 35 countries, including 15 manufacturing facilities, with products available in more than 100 countries. Our team focuses on creating business advantages for laboratory-dependent organizations to enable significant advancement in healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, and water quality.   

Working at Waters enables our employees to unlock the potential of their careers. Our global team is driven by purpose. We strive to be better, learn and improve every day in everything we do. We’re the problem solvers and innovators that aren’t afraid to take risks to transform the world of human health and well-being. We’re all in it together delivering benefit as one to provide the insights needed today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow. 

Diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our core values at Waters Corporation. It is our responsibility to actively implement programs and practices to drive inclusive behavior and increase diversity across the organization. We are united by diversity and thrive on it for the benefit of our employees, our products, our customers and our community. Waters is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity or protected Veteran status.