Lead Visualisation

Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services from 30 offices in 20 countries worldwide.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

Your Role

Oversees the design, implementation, and maintenance of data visualisation and analytical applications, ensuring they meet stakeholder needs and deliver data-driven insights. Responsible for managing the delivery and operations of the Linklaters data visualisation and analytics applications. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to create user-friendly visualisations, manages the performance of solutions, and promotes a data-driven culture through training and self-service processes. 

• Oversees the design, implementation, and maintenance of data visualisation and analytical applications, ensuring they meet stakeholder needs.  
• Defines the product vision aligned with the firm data platform and overall architecture roadmaps. Manages the product backlog   
• Creates and oversees a sustainable framework, analytics roadmap, and approach that delivers data-driven insights and reporting.  
• Collaborates with stakeholders to understand their reporting and analytics needs, designing comprehensive solutions.  
• Manages the delivery of analytics and reporting in accordance with requirements, estimated velocity, or agreed service level agreements.  
• Monitors and optimises the performance of visualisation and analytical solutions, proposing improvements to address bottlenecks.  
• Promotes a data-driven culture through training support, development, and implementation of self-service processes, ensuring compliance with data quality and governance.  
• Develops and maintains relationships with key technology vendors to ensure access to the latest visualisation tools and features, enhancing the Firm's analytical capabilities.  
• Leads a high-performing team, developing and implementing team goals and providing guidance to enhance team performance.  

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About You

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and maintaining data visualisation and analytical solutions, ideally within a complex, fast-paced environment. 
• Strong technical proficiency with leading data visualisation tools (such as Tableau, Power BI, or Qlik) and a solid understanding of their latest features and best practices. 
• Demonstrated ability to develop and deliver a comprehensive analytics roadmap, from initial concept to sustainable frameworks and ongoing improvement. 
• Skilled at collaborating with diverse stakeholders to understand business needs and translate them into actionable reporting and analytics solutions. 
• Track record of managing the delivery of analytics projects in line with agreed requirements and service level agreements. 
• Ability to diagnose, monitor, and optimise the performance of dashboards and analytical applications, proactively identifying and resolving bottlenecks. 
• Experience detecting and resolving data quality or anomaly issues, working with cross-functional teams to ensure the reliability and availability of key solutions. 
• Commitment to promoting a data-driven culture, including effective support, training, and implementation of self-service analytics processes. 
• Confidence in developing and maintaining relationships with technology vendors to ensure the organisation benefits from the latest tools and developments. 
• Strong leadership skills, with experience developing, guiding, and motivating high-performing teams to achieve ambitious goals. 

Our Benefits

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments 

Finance:

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle:

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.