The Business Information (BI) Project Manager at Coface is responsible for leading data and Business Information initiatives that support informed decision-making, risk assessment, and value creation across the Group. This role combines strong analytical problem-solving, business understanding, stakeholder management, and rigorous delivery to ensure BI projects deliver measurable business impact.
Strategic Problem Solving & Critical Thinking
- Analyse and diagnose complex business, data, and reporting challenges related to credit risk, finance, commercial performance, and operations
- Propose pragmatic, innovative, and actionable solutions leveraging data and analytics
Business Acumen
- Demonstrate a strong understanding of Coface’s business model, including credit insurance, risk analysis, and value creation drivers
- Understand internal customers’ needs (business, risk, finance, commercial, operations)
- Ensure BI initiatives are aligned with business priorities, regulatory constraints, and strategic objectives
Stakeholder Management
- Act as a key interface between business teams, IT, data engineers, and external partners
- Facilitate workshops, steer committees, and decision forums with senior stakeholders
- Manage expectations, resolve conflicts, and ensure alignment across multiple entities and geographies
Technical Literacy (Non-Coding)
- Possess a solid understanding of IT architectures, data models, data pipelines, and analytical concepts
- Be comfortable interacting with technical teams (data engineers, BI developers, IT architects) without being a coder
- Understand the capabilities and limitations of BI and data solutions to make informed trade-offs
Execution Discipline & Delivery Excellence
- Lead BI projects end-to-end, from initiation to deployment and adoption
- Ensure strong planning, prioritization, risk management, governance, and progress tracking
- Deliver projects on time, within scope and budget, ensuring quality, reliability, and business adoption
- Monitor benefits realization and continuous improvement post-delivery
- Strong analytical and structured thinking
- Excellent communication, facilitation, and influencing skills
- Ability to operate in complex, data-driven, and regulated environments
- Results-driven mindset with strong ownership and accountability
- Experience managing BI, data, or analytics projects in a complex organization
- Exposure to financial services, insurance, risk management, or regulated environments is a strong asset
- Experience working in international and multi-stakeholder contexts
- The company will provide continuous support and guidance throughout your work
- Hybrid work model
