Head of Analytics

Endeavour Recruitment Solutions
London
11 months ago
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Contract opportunity: calling profiles for aHead of Analyticsrole with our London based client!

This is a hybrid work role, with the expectation to be 2/3 days onsite.

Our client is looking for a profile with Power BI experience and good technical knowledge of BI tools to be the face of analytics/data in the organisation and help them move forward in their analytics transformation journey.

The successfulHead of Analyticswill demonstrate excellent communication skills and ideally have the following experience:

  • Senior leadership experience in an analytics related role, with multiple stakeholders, and a complex and technical operating environment.
  • Commercial experience with a record of delivering outcomes that add value or impact on service delivery and produce ROI.
  • Experience of working with a range of operational stakeholders; demonstrating excellent communication and engagement.
  • Experience in managing projects or delivering analytics transformation programmes successfully.
  • Experience in delivering excellent customer service; preferably delivering analytics.
  • Experience of shaping strategy and vision for your service area and delivering it successfully.
  • Good experience of working in an agile product delivery model, ideally data related products, as the responsible person.

Your technical skills will include:

  • Good knowledge (Head of level) around data and analytics that optimise performance and deliver value; user experience, design, technical skills, and platform knowledge.
  • Excellent knowledge of Power BI and other analytics or data tools, technologies, preferably Microsoft. Good understanding of data architecture.
  • Good knowledge of SQL, ETL technologies and data modelling. Knowledge of programming languages useful for data analytics such as Python.
  • Good knowledge of the Azure cloud data platform and the potential to use its services to improve analytics.
  • Good knowledge of testing BI software, release cycles, devops (dataops) and how to successfully move a product from development to production.
  • Ability to understand complex technical/technology solutions and concepts, with the ability to solve complex problems.
  • Effective IT skills including basic/intermediate/advanced MS Office skills.
  • Ability to mitigate and manage complex risks; including technical or regulatory ones such as GDPR, SDR etc.

Please send your CV or get in touch for further information ASAP!

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