Interim Analytics Readiness & Enablement Manager

The Analytics Readiness & Enablement Manager is a transformational leadership role which promotes the effective use of analytics across the organisation to accelerate organisational data maturity and foster data-driven culture.

You will play a key role in both complimenting future change programs as well as launching and landing your own enablement initiatives. You will lead a multi-skilled team who both deliver analytics solutions (reports, dashboards and self-service datasets) as well as a range of enablement services, such as prototyping, upskilling and organising events. The role combines leadership and delivery – and as such, technical credibility is a must.

• Prioritise demand (supported to by Head of Global Data Delivery) to ensure delivery is targeted at business areas who need these services the most whilst managing stakeholder expectations for delivery.
• Partner with our Principal Data Modeller to sponsor and promote the use of strong data warehouse practices - selling the benefits abstracted data models and the virtues of self-service analytics solutions.
• Lead and coach a diverse, multi-skilled team of data professionals with a wide and varied remit to accelerate the use of analytics across the business.
• Oversee the design and delivery of analytics reporting dashboards and visualisations using SQL and Power BI, with a focus on user experience and data storytelling.
• Champion global consistency of data strategy and analytics ways of working, collaborating via Commercial Directors and other global stakeholder groups.
• Partner with Learning & Development to ensure Power BI and Databricks training is woven into wider L&D offering to accelerate data understanding and confidence for all colleagues globally.
• Partner with Architecture to guide our analytics tooling strategy, staying at the forefront of emerging industry trends to ensure our data community of 200+ can capitalise on technologies which will allow them to boost data decision making and improve the lives of customers.
• Guide functional and regional Directors on how to establish and scale analytics teams. Play a role which convinces and influences how we develop a success data organisation across the business.
• Work with the Head of Data Strategy & Enablement to ensure our approach to Analytics Readiness marries with our Data Strategy

If you are a fantastic Head of Analytics or a Head of BI looking for an interim role, then please do get in touch!

• A skilled influencer, able to confidently engage stakeholders and colleagues to generate commitment and partnership.
• An understanding of applied maths, statistics, and data analytics.
• Able to convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences in a succinct and accessible way.
• Experience and an understanding how analytics can provide a benefit and demonstrate how this can impact the business commercially.
• Strong organisational awareness combined with commercial acumen enabling you to align goals and initiatives to different business functions.
• Experienced at leading teams and building collaborative, high energy culture.
• Experience working with stakeholders to refine requirements and design outputs.
• Mentoring or coaching experience.
• Experience leading team capable of manipulating and cleansing data and building compelling visualisations in Power BI.