HEAD OF ANALYTICS- PRODUCT, INSIGHT & STRATEGY TEAM
£75,000 - £85,000+ Bonus + Share Options
London Based (Victoria Station) with Remote working available 2 days per week.

"The most exciting food start up in the UK!"

Sessions– The Record Label for Food.

We're Sessions,we’re on a mission to bring non-stop originality to every kitchen.

Founded in 2020, Sessions has since launched and scaled 10 food brands, partnered with 300+ licensee kitchens and delivered over 3 million orders. We are now expanding into the franchising space at speed, using our own technology to grow our brand portfolio into high streets all over the UK.

Our portfolio includes crowd favourites such as SoBe Burger and Little Bao Boy, as well as brands from market leaders in the food space, such Kenny Tutt’s Patty Guy (of Master Chef fame) and internationally acclaimed menus like Ivan Ramen (seen on Netflix’s Chef’s Table).

Sessions is led by former executives from Deliveroo, Brewdog and Soho House and is backed by industry leading investors Imbiba and Guinness Ventures.

ABOUT THE ROLE

As Head of Analytics at Sessions, you will be the long-term lead of the analytics & data team, to help the business to collect, store, and analyse its data to generate value. You will report to the VP of Product & Analytics, who in turn reports to the CEO.

You will work across the entire business, seeking to understand problems and questions that can be solved with data, and leverage the resources and information available to help make the best decisions to keep the business growing effectively.

This role will involve a highly hands-on approach, getting stuck in and building on the data storage, processing, and analytics that are already in place. You will understand and improve on the procedures and best practices that already exist, to allow the business to self-serve data and analysis in a way that leaves more time for value adding activities and insight generation.

As Sessions grows, you will lead our growing analytics & data science function that will be instrumental in supporting a highly data-driven management team including one current line report.

Our data tech stack consists of Extract using Python on Google Cloud Functions, Loading into a data lake on Google Cloud Storage, followed by BigQuery for Transform, and Looker for visualisation & BI. Many other technologies are in use across the business, in particular a full AWS stack on the tech product side, which is all replicated into Google Cloud Platform for data & analytics purposes.

WHAT WILL YOU DO?

• Owning the processes and tools Sessions uses to acquire, store, and interrogate data, across the entire business
• Building and maintaining ELT processes from key data sources including our major partners such as Uber, Deliveroo, and other business systems
• Building and maintaining business reports to inform management meetings and regular business performance meetings
• Supporting the widespread use of the Looker platform
• Working with tech leads to help build out insight that will guide future development of Sessions tech products
• Working with the entire management team to understand and improve the decisions they make every day
• Supporting the wider business to access information as quickly and as easily as possible
• As you should expect from a start-up, the responsibilities listed here are meant to be indicative and not exhaustive

REQUIREMENTS:

• Strong degree in a technical subject from a top-tier University
• 4+ years of experience in an analytical role, ideally in a smaller company
• Ability to understand and tackle loosely defined problems and come up with relevant answers and impactful insights
• Strong knowledge of SQL and the core principles underlying data transformation
• Good knowledge of Python
• Experience with an analytics platform such as Looker, PowerBI, Spotfire, or Tableau
• Experience performing analysis with datasets in a cloud-based data processing environment, such as BigQuery
• Proven willingness to learn new analytical skills and tools
• An understanding of statistical modelling preferred
• Ability to work with stakeholders to understand their data needs and build solutions with them
• Right to work in the UK

BENEFITS- What Sessions can offer you

Financial Wellbeing:

Bonus Scheme -All Sessions headquarters employees are given OKRs, understand exactly what is expected of you to reach your 6 month bonus.
Share Options- Receive an amount of share options for Sessions upon passing probation
Pay day on demand -Choose a payday that suits you best, with the ability to transfer salary for days already worked whenever you like.
Expense card -Don't find yourself short whilst waiting for expenses to be paid, the majority of our headquarters staff will be given their own Soldo company card.

Social, Mental & Physical Wellbeing
Holidays -We offer 25 days holiday + bank holidays, celebrate different bank holidays? fine by us! Let us know and we'll distribute them as suits you best
️Preventative Healthcare -Sessions are partnered with Qured, to keep people fit and healthy and regularly tested vs waiting for you to become ill
Volunteering Day -Take a day at full pay to support one of our partner charities
Employee Assistance Programme-Support for health, finance and legal services for you and your direct family.
Socials-Sessions run optional weekly social activities, everything from drinks on us socials, team lunches and even events such as Halloween movie night!
Discounts- Enjoy discounts in our food hall venues and on Deliveroo for our brands
Dog Friendly- We love our fluffy pals, they're welcome in the office!
Wear what you like- No suits and ties please, that's so 18th century....

Technology Perks

Laptop -Apple Mac or Windows Laptop? Your choice! and most of us don't judge...
Phone -Apple iPhone and company sim provided where necessary for the role
Additional-Need another screen? Keyboard? Footstool? Our office manager can provide you with an ergonomics assessment to prevent workplace injuries.

Progression & Development

High Growth Start Up-This is a great chance to be part of a growing company with plenty of progression opportunities and examples of where our people have progressed as fast as we have
CMI Programme -Sessions runs a Management & Leadership Programme which awards delegates their Chartered Manager status! More letters to add for the signature...
???? Be Inspired-Work with industry legends such as the Ex MD of Deliveroo, ex CFO Soho House and ex Global Growth Director of Brewdog.
️ Membership & Qualifications- Sessions have helped support a number of our employees by providing funds for work-based qualifications and memberships to relevant associations such as AAT and CIPD.

Join a company looking to change the face of the hospitality industry.

Sessions are a living wage and equal opportunity employer.

We are a living wage and equal opportunity employer - all applicants are reviewed 'anonymously' where only work experience and education will be available for the hiring manager to view - all applicants will be considered for employment without attention to ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender, family or parental status, national origin, veteran, neurodiversity status or disability status.

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