Head of Data & Analytics

Head of Data & Analytics

Application Deadline: 22 April 2025

Department: Operations (COO)

Employment Type: Permanent

Location: London

Compensation: Band C

Description

Location: Sheffield / London / Hybrid Working (Expectation that you will attend an office 2 days per week)

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time 37.5 hours per week/flexible days and/or hours (Mon-Fri)

Band: C

THE ROLE

As a member of the Banks Senior Leadership Team, you will have the primary enterprise accountability for the design and delivery of the Banks Data Strategy, encompassing the data and analytics (D&A) assets to drive value for business stakeholders. This includes the creation and management of data and analytics strategy, and execution of related programs and practices that drive measurable business outcomes. This role involves establishing, leading and operating the D&A function; developing talent and mature D&A culture; building trust and managing data; responsibility for updating, designing and implementing the Banks data and information governance taxonomies and evolving technology capabilities.

You will maintain authority and accountability for exploiting the value of enterprise information assets, and of the analytics used to render insights for decision making, automated decisions and augmentation of human performance, and be the corporate leader of data-driven insights and use cases that help support the exploitation of strategic and tactical business opportunities.

With an acumen for strategic business and technology planning and execution, including policy development and maintenance, you will also be able to demonstrate the ability to describe business use cases/outcomes, data sources and management concepts, and analytical approaches/options and the ability to translate among the languages used by executive, business, IT and quant stakeholders.

You will have a proven track record of leading complex, multidisciplinary talent teams in new endeavors and delivering solutions, and have the ability to balance team and individual responsibilities, build teams and consensus, get things done through others not directly under their supervision, and work ethically and with integrity.

You will also have significant business experience, ideally in business management, legal, financial or information or IT management — recently at or near the executive level.

Key Benefits

• 30 days annual leave plus bank holidays, opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days holiday
• 15% employer pension contribution
• Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Group Income Protection and life assurance
• Paid voluntary days, maternity, paternity, adoption, and shared parental leave
• Benefits designed to suit your lifestyle – from discounts on retail and dining, to health and wellbeing, travel, and technology…and plenty more

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