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Data and Analytics Lead
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Data and Analytics Lead
Location: London
Working Arrangement: Hybrid
A private equity investor is looking at bringing in a hands-on data specialist to improve how information is structured, connected, and used across its portfolio businesses.
The Role
These are typically owner-managed companies where data capability has not always kept pace with the growth of the business. A company may have separate CRM, operational, and finance systems, inconsistent customer records, and reporting that cannot provide a reliable version of the truth.
Your job would be to get underneath those problems and fix them.
The role would involve working across an initial portfolio of four or five businesses, each with different systems, teams, and commercial challenges. The work is likely to include:
- Assessing the current data landscape and identifying where the underlying problems sit
- Cleaning, structuring, and modeling data so that it can be trusted
- Connecting information held across CRM, operational, and finance systems
- Resolving inconsistent records, naming conventions, and duplicated data
- Designing and building appropriate data warehouses or similar data platforms
- Creating the analytical and reporting capability that sits on top
- Helping businesses establish a meaningful single source of truth
- Advising on the right technology and approach for each organisation
- Translating commercial questions into useful datasets, reporting, and insight
- Working directly with management teams to understand what they need and implement a practical solution
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This is not intended to be a purely strategic Head of Data position. The investor needs someone who can diagnose the problem, recommend an approach, and remain close enough to the detail to deliver it.
What We Are Looking For
You are likely to have worked in a consulting, transformation, or delivery-focused data role where you have taken ownership of projects from initial discovery through to implementation.
You should be able to demonstrate:
- Hands-on experience improving data quality, structure, and governance
- Experience integrating information from multiple business systems
- The ability to design or build data warehousing and analytical solutions
- Experience delivering reporting or dashboard capability from the resulting data
- The judgement to decide what information is genuinely useful and how it should be managed
- The commercial confidence to work directly with founders, owners, and senior leadership teams
- The ability to explain technical decisions in straightforward business terms
- Comfort moving between different companies, systems, and operating environments
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Private equity experience would be useful but is not essential. Experience supporting financial due diligence, preparing business data for an investment or exit process, or working with both smaller and larger organizations would also be relevant.
Why Consider It?
Rather than maintaining one established data environment, you would solve a series of meaningful problems across different businesses.
You would have the freedom to assess what each company actually needs, build the right solution, and show leadership teams how better data can improve decision-making, reporting, and business performance.
It should suit someone who enjoys taking unclear, fragmented data environments and turning them into something practical, reliable, and commercially useful.
Working Arrangements
The portfolio businesses are located across the UK, so some travel and time on site will be required. The precise working pattern will depend partly on the needs of each project.
The employment structure and package are currently being considered and will reflect the scope and experience of the person appointed.
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