Head of Data & Insights

Permanent

Remote with Travel when required

Overview

An experienced Data Analyst / Analytics Engineer who has been hands-on in building trusted data products, reporting layers and insight capability, and is now ready to step into a leadership role. The Head of Data & Insights will own the development of data governance, to strengthen data management and governance across the Group, improving the underlying data foundation by strengthening business metadata, data quality tracking and remediation and end-to-end data lineage. Ultimately this role will help colleagues to make better decisions through accurate, timely and commercially meaningful insight.

The role will strengthen data management and governance across the Group, improving the underlying data foundation by strengthening business metadata, data quality tracking and remediation and end-to-end data lineage.

What you'll do

• Oversee all Analytics and Reporting activities, delivering on data strategy - established based on underlying platforms, integrations including the data lake
• Partner with functional leads, particularly Finance and Marketing, to deliver both board-level and operational Insight
• Prioritisation is critical – you will maintain the backlog of initiatives for effective organisational prioritisation, ie aligned to clear purpose and to maximise benefits
• Track the use of data sets, associated platforms and reports to optimise where effort is spent for continual improvement and advancement.
• Minimise legacy and technical debt, ensuring a lean and face-paced environment.
• Monitor the performance of the data platforms including associated integrations – working on the preparation of future integrations, definition and consolidation of data sets in systems
• Develop tooling and documentation, developing data champions in teams that can self-serve data and, in agreed instances, create dashboards guided by this role.
• Lead our small central team of analysts, taking responsibility for their professional development
• Contribute hands-on to a growing data model (dbt), leading by example as well as coaching
• Develop a foundational data layer to enable AI use cases
• Own the definition and ongoing improvement of core business metrics, ensuring consistent interpretation across Finance, Marketing, Operations and the leadership team.
• Establish data governance principles covering data quality, ownership, documentation, definitions, lineage and appropriate access controls.
• Work closely with Technology, Systems and business stakeholders to ensure data platforms are reliable, scalable and aligned to the wider digital and AI roadmap.
• Translate complex data into clear insight, narrative and recommendations that can be understood and acted on by senior stakeholders.
• Create a culture of self-service insight by setting standards, building reusable data assets and supporting teams to consume data confidently and responsibly.
• M&A is core to our work across all our functions – this provides opportunity for streamlining data migration work.