Head of Data Visualisation

Would you like to step up in to a Head of level role?

Want to work for a digital-first, market leading retail group?

We are currently working alongside a circa one billion pound retail group who are searching for a new Head of Data Visualisation. They have been elevated as a data first and digital first business. The Group Data function, led by the Director of Data reportingto the CEO, has been established to define and implement the enterprise data vision and strategy.

This role will drive the enterprise-wide Data Visualisation strategy and lead the central team responsible for designing, developing, and socialising interactive analytics visualisations, dashboards and reports across business functions in order to facilitatedecision making. You will be accountable for liberating data across the organisation and developing (or empowering the business to develop) actionable high impact automated analytical solutions to help solve the biggest business questions.

**As Head of Data Visualisation you will**:

- Lead and manage Data Visualisation team, continuously making the case for the value it adds to the wider business.
- Develop and implement the data visualisation strategy in alignment with the wider Group Data (and therefore business) strategy. Provide thought leadership within the wider Group Data management team.
- Articulate the benefits of data visualisation and analytics and educate the wider business in how it can help them achieve their goals. Be a data evangelist, inspiring your team and the wider business to tell powerful stories with the help of data.
- Define the operating model and the tools and techniques of choice to ensure accurate, slick delivery of BI and reporting solutions throughout the business.
- Work in partnership with Product Management to prioritise requirements and create the enterprise-wide data visualisation roadmap aligned to our strategic pillars.
- Ensure the visualisation estate is operating at optimal performance for all business users
- Create & deliver training for end-users and resolve issues to enable the effective use of data visualisations across the organisation.
- Provide technology support and advice to business colleagues regarding analytics & data visualisation.

**What you'll need to succeed**:

- Extensive experience of managing teams in the data visualisation space and working with diverse stakeholders to understand their requirements and building roadmaps to meet them.
- Significant experience with visualisation tools such as PowerBI, Tableau and/or Looker.
- Excellent communication skills and a proven ability to translate data requirements into visualisations in a modern enterprise analytics environment, with a focus on end-to-end data products and solutions.
- Experience of challenging the status quo to drive team performance.
- Practical knowledge of handling varied types of data, and experience in using it to produce useful visualisations.
- A high level of retail and ecommerce knowledge.
- Strong SQL skills.

**Desirable**:

- Transferable PowerBI/Tableau/Looker administration knowledge
- Experience with cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery, Snowflake, Redshift etc.
- Data modelling experience
- Knowledge of the analytics engineering tools (i.e. DBT) and workflow
- Programming language such as Python and high-level software engineering principles like version control, CI/CD and code review standards

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