Commercial Business Intelligence Analyst

Saluda Medical is a commercial‑stage medical device company focused on developing treatments for chronic neurological conditions using its novel closed‑loop neuromodulation platform. The company’s proprietary technology senses and measures neural responses to stimulation and automatically adjusts therapy based on real‑time neurophysiological feedback.

Saluda Medical’s first product, the Evoke® System, is designed to deliver known, consistent, and personalized spinal cord stimulation therapy by objectively measuring neural responses and maintaining therapy within a prescribed therapeutic window. Saluda Medical is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

At Saluda, we challenge boundaries. We innovate and think beyond the conventional. Our focus is to revolutionize the standard of care in neuromodulation to positively impact patient’s lives.

Saluda Medical is a pioneer in closed-loop Spinal Cord Stimulation (SCS), developing innovative technology designed to improve outcomes for patients living with chronic pain. We are seeking a highly analytical and technically proficient Commercial Business Intelligence Analyst to join our Global Commercial Operations team. This hands-on role designs, develops, maintains, and optimizes business intelligence solutions supporting commercial performance, sales effectiveness, and strategic decision-making. The ideal candidate combines advanced Microsoft Power BI, Salesforce, SQL, data modeling, and programming expertise with strong commercial acumen and can independently manage reporting environments, integrate data, automate processes, and translate data into actionable insights.

What You’ll Do:

Business Intelligence & Power BI Development

• Own development, maintenance, and optimization of Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions supporting Global Commercial Operations.
• Design scalable data models, relationships, calculated measures, and advanced DAX calculations; develop Power Query transformations using M.
• Manage Power BI Service workspaces, semantic models, scheduled refreshes, gateways, and row-level security.
• Troubleshoot refresh failures, reporting issues, performance bottlenecks, and data inconsistencies.
• Build interactive dashboards and automate reporting to improve efficiency, scalability, and accessibility.

Salesforce & Data Integration

• Extract, transform, and analyze Salesforce CRM data for commercial reporting and operational decisions.
• Maintain integrations between Salesforce, Power BI, and other enterprise data sources.
• Work with Salesforce standard and custom objects, relationships, reporting structures, SOQL, and APIs.
• Partner with Salesforce administrators and IT to improve data quality, integration, and reporting.
• Support pipeline, territory, account, opportunity, and sales effectiveness reporting.

SQL, Programming & Data Management

• Write and optimize complex SQL queries to extract, manipulate, and analyze large datasets.
• Use Python or other programming languages to automate workflows, transform data, and support analysis.
• Develop and maintain ETL/ELT processes, reusable datasets, scripts, and automated reporting solutions.
• Establish data validation and reconciliation processes to ensure accuracy.
• Improve data architecture and reporting performance; document models, business logic, scripts, and processes.

Commercial Analytics & Sales Operations

• Develop dashboards for sales performance, revenue trends, territory productivity, and commercial effectiveness.
• Analyze sales and clinical field team performance against KPIs and business objectives.
• Support territory alignment, segmentation, targeting, resource allocation, compensation, incentive programs, and MBOs.
• Evaluate pipeline performance, account penetration, productivity, and growth opportunities.
• Support launches, strategic initiatives, commercial expansion, forecasting, and business planning.
• Deliver accurate daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting.

Cross-Functional Partnership & Business Insights

• Partner with Commercial Operations, Sales Leadership, Finance, Marketing, and IT to translate requirements into scalable solutions.
• Identify trends, risks, and opportunities through proactive analysis.
• Create executive dashboards and presentations for leadership and other stakeholders.
• Communicate technical findings clearly and maintain strong data governance and reporting consistency.

What You'll Bring:

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Analytics, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Finance, Engineering, or related quantitative field.
• 4–7+ years in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics, Sales Operations Analytics, or related technical analytical role.
• Experience independently developing and maintaining enterprise Power BI solutions, working with Salesforce CRM data, and integrating multiple enterprise systems.

Technical Skills - Required

• Microsoft Power BI - Advanced: Power BI Desktop and Service; advanced DAX; Power Query/M; semantic models; performance tuning; refreshes, gateways, and security.
• SQL - Advanced: Complex joins, aggregations, subqueries, CTEs, window functions, transformations, and query optimization.
• Salesforce - Intermediate to Advanced: CRM data architecture, standard/custom objects, reporting, extraction, SOQL and/or APIs, and BI integration.
• Programming & Automation: Working Python proficiency for data manipulation, scripting, process automation, and troubleshooting.
• Additional: Advanced Excel; ETL/ELT and data integration; data quality, validation, governance, and technical documentation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in medical devices, healthcare technology, pharmaceuticals, or a complex commercial environment.
• Experience supporting field-based sales organizations, compensation, territory management, forecasting, and commercial KPIs.
• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, or other cloud data platforms.
• Familiarity with QAD ERP, Power Automate, and Git/version control.
• Experience developing executive reporting; Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) certification or equivalent.

Key Competencies:

• Technical ownership and independent troubleshooting of business-critical reporting.
• Analytical problem-solving, root-cause analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Commercial acumen and ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Attention to detail, communication, initiative, accountability, and cross-functional collaboration.

Measures of Success:

• Reliable, accurate, timely business-critical commercial reporting.
• Effective ownership and continuous improvement of the Power BI environment.
• Improved integration, consistency, and accessibility of Salesforce and commercial data.
• Reduced manual reporting through automation and process optimization.
• High confidence in data accuracy and actionable insights for commercial leadership.
• Scalable, well-documented reporting solutions supporting growth.

Our Core Values:

• People – Our first responsibility is to the patients we serve.
• Integrity – Do the right thing
• Pioneering – Lead Boldly, Change Lives, Disrupt the Status-Quo
• Performance – Win together – Deliver with Excellence.

Saluda Medical embraces diversity and equal opportunity. We are committed to building a team representative of a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills. We believe people are the source of our inspiration and innovation.

Saluda Medical does not accept non-solicited resumes or candidate submittals from search/recruiting agencies not already on Saluda Medical’s approved agency list. Unsolicited resumes or candidate information submitted to Saluda Medical by search/recruiting agencies not already on Saluda Medical’s approved agency list shall become the property of Saluda Medical.