Team Manager, Data and Insights Innovation

Introduction
Discover a one-of-a-kind career. Our vision at Heathrow is to be an extraordinary airport, fit for the future. In the Finance team we know that generating income is critical to driving our business forward, but it's also vital that we create positive passenger and customer experiences that make every journey better. You'll help us to get the balance right so we can continue investing in our world-class environment.

There's something so special about working at the world's most iconic airport. Heathrow's size, scale, and reputation for innovation translates to exciting opportunities for everyone. Finance here is about more than numbers. It's about being influential, developing trusted relationships, and showing the world that we're a responsible investment with a bright future; a place that embraces digital innovation and has a sustainable mindset. You'll become part of a team that drives excellence across everything from insurance to investment, treasury to business partnering, as you collaborate widely to deliver projects that directly impact millions of passengers each year.

Job Description
We are seeking a visionary Team Manager to champion data-driven transformation within Finance. This role is instrumental in shaping a culture where data and insights drive smarter decision-making, innovation, and operational excellence. You will collaborate with key stakeholders to understand business processes and identify opportunities to leverage data tools for automation, accuracy, and efficiency gains.

Bridging technical expertise and business value, you will lead initiatives that align with organisational priorities, promoting the adoption of advanced analytics and emerging technologies. Your leadership will foster curiosity, experimentation, and continuous improvement, resulting in scalable data products and services with measurable impact. Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills are essential, as you will work with senior leaders, operational teams, and external partners to embed data into everyday decision-making. Ultimately, you will transform data into a strategic asset that fuels innovation, enhances performance, and supports our mission of delivering excellence.

This role can be based in either London or Glasgow.
Your role will involve

• Championing a data-first culture through the promotion of self-service analytics and advanced insight capabilities across the organisation.
• Translating business needs into insights by partnering with stakeholders to deliver actionable analytics solutions aligned to business objectives.
• Influencing technology adoption by acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on emerging technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and automation.
• Driving innovation and scalability through identifying, evaluating, and implementing new tools and methodologies; leading proof-of-concepts and pilots to ensure business value.
• Ensuring governance and continuous improvement. Maintaining compliance with data standards, optimise processes, and stay informed on industry trends and best practices.

These Skills Are Essential

• Track record of driving innovation and change in data and analytics environments.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into business value.
• Proven experience in creating dashboards and visualisations with data analytics tools, ideally using Oracle Fusion Data Intelligence
• Familiarity with agile delivery and modern data architectures (e.g., cloud computing).
• Proven experience of identifying high-impact use cases and translate business needs into actionable data products and insights
• Proven ability to collaborate across departments, bridging technical and non-technical stakeholders to deliver unified data strategies.

About Us
There's something so special about working for the world's most iconic airport. Heathrow is an amazing backdrop to a career filled with unique opportunities with no end of exciting prospects to explore. A team that feels like family, a place where you belong.

Working for Heathrow brings out the best in all of us. And inspires everyone to deliver on our ambitious plans. Together, we're working to welcome millions more passengers while ensuring aviation can continue to be a force for good by leading global efforts in sustainability.

Join us on that journey and we'll help you achieve your ambitions too. Supporting you to learn, encouraging you to be yourself, backing you to achieve more than you might ever have imagined. Because there's no place like Heathrow.

Our rewards
We offer competitive salaries and excellent benefits that will support you now and in the future. As well as performance-based annual bonuses and our longer-term Share in Success Bonus plans, we also offer generous annual leave allowances and market-leading pensions. With family friendly policies, access to private health insurance and a wide range of wellbeing tools, we'll support you to be at your best inside and outside work. And of course, we'll provide varied learning and development opportunities too. Here you'll find everything you need for a fulfilling career journey that can take you in exciting directions.

Working location
Your contractual place of work will either be the Heathrow Business Services Centre in Glasgow, or Heathrow in London so you'll need to be based in the UK and within a commutable distance to work.

We also have some hybrid roles which offer the opportunity for colleagues to work from home for an average of two days a week, providing the flexibility to work in an agile way whilst ensuring we deliver for the operational needs of Heathrow.  Working arrangements vary from team to team and will be confirmed during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities
As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from everybody. We believe that diverse talent makes us stronger – not least because we welcome passengers from all corners of the globe, every single day. Heathrow is an accessible place to work, and through our diversity networks, we champion inclusivity and celebrate individuality.