Head of Data Management in Manchester

About the Role

We’re hiring a Head of Data Intelligence to play a pivotal role in a private-equity-backed, high-growth business with a clear and active acquisitive growth strategy. This is a rare opportunity to step into a hands-on senior data leadership role where you’ll directly influence pricing, marketing, customer outcomes, and M&A integration, with full executive sponsorship and visibility. As the business grows through acquisition, so will the scope, scale, and seniority of this role.

If you’re a technically strong, commercially curious data leader looking for a genuine career accelerator into a bigger Head of Data / Group Data role, this position offers the right platform. The role is based in Greater Manchester (hybrid working).

Why This Opportunity Is Different

• PE-backed, high-growth environment with an ambitious buy-and-build strategy
• Data is central to value creation — not an afterthought
• Clear runway to grow the remit through acquisition and scale
• High-impact role with ownership, autonomy, and senior-level exposure
• Ideal for someone ready to step up and build something that scales

What You’ll Be Doing

• Own and maximise Snowflake as the central commercial data platform
• Translate high-quality data into measurable commercial outcomes across pricing, underwriting, marketing, and customer performance
• Embed a data-led, test-and-learn culture, replacing intuition with insight
• Deliver practical AI use cases that create real business value
• Enable self-serve analytics and reduce reliance on manual reporting
• Lead insight generation to support strategic and executive decision-making
• Play a key role in M&A data integration, ensuring acquired businesses scale cleanly and quickly
• Partner closely with the CIO, CFO, Product and Engineering leaders

What Success Looks Like (First 6–12 Months)

• Snowflake established as the single source of truth
• Clear reduction in manual and fragmented reporting
• Delivery of commercially impactful insights linked to revenue, margin, or cost efficiency
• At least two AI use cases live in core business areas
• Data visibly influencing pricing, marketing, and customer strategy
• Foundations in place to scale data capability through future acquisitions

Who This Role Is For

• A hands-on data leader with strong Snowflake (or equivalent) experience
• Comfortable working across data, analytics, and AI — not just managing from a distance
• Commercially minded, able to connect data to real business outcomes
• Operating at Lead / Principal / early Head of level and ready for broader ownership
• Excited by growth, ambiguity, and building something that scales
• People leadership experience is helpful but not critical — this role is more about impact, influence, and delivery.

Team & Environment

• Currently leading a small, capable data team, with scope to grow over time
• Strong collaboration with Engineering (platform), Finance (commercial outcomes), and Product
• Supportive, ambitious leadership team with a clear growth mandate

Compensation & Progression

• Base salary targeted below £100k
• High-impact role in a PE-backed business where future scope and seniority expands with growth
• Designed as a springboard into a larger Group / Head of Data role as the business scales via acquisition

Interested?

If you’re looking for:

• Real ownership
• Clear commercial impact
• Exposure to M&A and PE-backed growth
• A role you can grow into something significantly bigger

Apply directly or reach out for a confidential conversation.