Analytics & Data Science Lead

Analytics and Data Science Lead

Negotiable to £70,000 DOE plus generous bonus potential + benefits

Full time/Hybrid working: 3 days inTW6, Middlesex offices & 2 days homer/remote

Job Reference J12908

Full UK working rights required/no sponsorship available

THE ROLE

Looking for a challenge in one of the world’s largest airfreight logistics organisation and a FTSE 100 company?

A new role due to the growth of the use of, and influence of, analytics function within the business and the focus for this Analytics and Data Science Lead role being on commercial performance.

Become a vital part of a passionate team who are enabling the business to make critical business decisions using leading edge data analytics. Bring a new perspective on data and how it can be used to solve challenges across the organisation. Your output will be essential in enabling insight driven decision-making within the business.

The role involves managing a small team (c4) to deliver leading edge data exploitation, analysis and modelling. Your team will own a portfolio of reports, models and dashboards, provide analytical expertise and act as champions for data development needs. You will lead the team to deliver robust and reliable data and advanced analytical solutions for the business and maintain the quality of management information through continuous improvement.

The analytics and data science lead should have a strong enthusiasm for problem solving and a passion for data. They will be expected to provide analytical expertise, seek to identify data gaps and proactively develop the data agenda in line with business priorities as well as challenge business leaders to become truly data driven. A positive thinker with plenty of curiosity would be ideal for this role.

PERSON SPECIFICATION

Skills

Effective at people management

Highly analytical, logical, creative thinker

Proven ability to structure problems

Able to refine and clarify vague requirements

Experienced in delivering metrics, analyses, visualisations, and statistical models

Ability to lead the direction of analytical projects

Can prioritise workloads and manage tight deadlines

Strong stakeholder management, influencing and interpersonal skills

Ability to communicate and present to all levels

Interpretation and analysis of business performance to inform decision making

Applies statistics to summarise data, identify trends, forecast, and predict outcomes

Project management and planning

Highly effective team worker

Strong business acumen and commercial awareness

Technical skills: Data analysis, visualisation, statistical modelling, predictive analytics.

Experience

Essential Experience

Analysing complex issues, packaging findings and presenting effectively to stakeholders

Managing databases and/or blending data

Designing data for management information purposes

Leading the direction of analytical projects

Working knowledge of data engineering pipelines

Hands on programming experience

Visualising data and presenting trends and findings for broad audiences

Desirable Experience

Creating and using numerical models and solving optimisation problems

Tableau Certified

Use of cloud-based data tooling e.g. AWS S3, Snowflake

Working knowledge of Spanish

Use of specific analytical tools: Tableau, SQL, Python, Business Objects

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