Business Intelligence Director - Americas

At AlixPartners, we solve the most complex and critical challenges by moving quickly from analysis to action when it really matters, creating value that has a lasting impact on companies, their people, and the communities they serve. By understanding, respecting, and honoring the needs of our employees, clients, and communities, AlixPartners actively promotes an inclusive environment. We believe in the value that diversity brings to our experiences and are committed to the continuous enhancement of initiatives, policies, and practices that support authenticity, growth, and equity for everyone. AlixPartners has embraced a hybrid work model to provide flexibility and support employees’ work-life integration. Our hybrid model combines a mix of in-person collaboration at an AlixPartners office with remote working options, subject to role, team, and business needs. About the Role We are seeking a strategic, commercially oriented Business Intelligence Director to lead the Americas Business Intelligence Center team. This leader will oversee the managers responsible for industry and practice research, ensuring the function delivers high-quality insights, research, and market intelligence that support business development, client delivery, account growth, and firmwide priorities. The Business Intelligence Director - Americas will partner closely with regional, industry, practice, Innovation, Marketing, and Business Development leaders to align research capabilities with the firm’s commercial agenda. This role will be accountable for setting direction, building trusted advisory relationships, developing talent, strengthening operating practices, and ensuring the Americas team consistently delivers insight-driven support that helps AlixPartners win and deliver memorable results. This will include leading the creation and adoption of generative AI tools. The Business Intelligence Director - Americas is a full-time role based in New York, NY, Boston, MA, Dallas, TX, Southfield, MI, or Chicago, IL, and will report to Business Intelligence leadership. Paid relocation is not available for this position. What You’ll Do Leadership and Team Development Lead, coach, and develop managers across industry and practice research. Set clear priorities, expectations, and success measures for the Americas Business Intelligence team, ensuring alignment with global Business Intelligence Center strategy and Americas business priorities. Build a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing team culture that encourages curiosity, accountability, quality, innovation, and continuous improvement. Provide thoughtful guidance, feedback, and development support to managers, helping them strengthen their leadership capabilities and grow their teams. Promote effective resource planning, workload management, and prioritization across the function, especially during peak business development and client delivery periods. Business Partnership and Strategic Advisory Serve as a trusted advisor to senior leaders across Americas industries, practices, geographies, Business Development, Marketing, and other corporate functions. Translate business priorities into research and intelligence strategies that support growth, client impact, and differentiated market positioning. Partner with stakeholders to identify the most pressing commercial, industry, competitive, and market intelligence needs and ensure the team delivers timely, relevant, and actionable insights. Represent the Americas Business Intelligence function in cross-functional forums, helping shape priorities, communicate capabilities, and reinforce the value of the team’s work. Research, Market Intelligence, and Commercial Support Oversee the delivery of research, including industry trends, market dynamics, competitor intelligence, company analysis, financial analysis, prospect identification, and account insights. Ensure research outputs are practical, commercially relevant, and tailored to the needs of consulting teams, practice leaders, and client-facing stakeholders. Guide the team in providing high-quality pitch, RFP, business development, and client delivery support across industries and service lines. Identify opportunities to improve research products, repeatable deliverables, screening approaches, and intelligence workflows that increase efficiency and value for internal clients. Innovation, AI, and Operational Excellence Champion the responsible use of firm-approved AI tools, automation, data platforms, and technology to improve productivity, enhance insight generation, and streamline repetitive workflows. Partner with global Business Intelligence leadership to evolve operating practices, service models, intake processes, metrics, and reporting that demonstrate impact and improve the internal client experience. Use data and stakeholder feedback to assess demand, quality, utilization, turnaround times, and team capacity, making informed recommendations to improve effectiveness. Foster a test-and-learn mindset that encourages practical innovation while maintaining appropriate confidentiality, quality, and risk standards. Contribute to global initiatives that strengthen consistency, collaboration, and knowledge sharing across region Vendor, Subscription, and Research Spend Management Participate in governance for managed data subscriptions, research tools, third-party research providers, expert networks, and related vendor relationships. Support subscription renewals, vendor performance, usage reviews, seat and module optimization, and renewal challenge processes to ensure spend is aligned with business value, utilization, and firm priorities. Identify and execute opportunities to reduce underutilized spend, consolidate duplicative tools, improve vendor leverage, and redirect capacity or savings toward higher-value business development and client support. Additional responsibilities as identified. This d