Data Analytics Team Lead

The Airedale Group is the market-leading design, installation, and maintenance provider for commercial kitchens in the UK hospitality and food service industry. We work alongside clients from the initial designs to bespoke fabrication and installation. Coupled with the country's largest body of professional maintenance engineers, we offer the complete end-to-end solution to our extensive client base.

The Data & Analytics Team Lead will oversee the delivery of business-critical dashboards and reports focused on field service operations. This includes driving the analysis of key performance indicators (e.g. first time fix metrics, engineer working time on site, etc.) & supporting data-driven decision-making in field service operations.

Overseeing a team of analysts, you will be responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of field service reporting, providing actionable insights to stakeholders, and fostering a culture of best practices and continuous improvement. There is an existing suite of Power BI reports; the team lead will have a proven ability to quickly understand existing solutions and improve them to meet stakeholder needs. Alongside managing the team, you will also need to be hands-on with Power BI dashboard development, using SQL to pull data, owning stakeholder relationships and overseeing the Power BI infrastructure.

This role will suit a professional who demonstrates strong leadership skills and hands-on analytical skills. There’s potential for this role to evolve and expand the team's scope into new areas such as IoT-based field service metrics or the development of new reporting and data tools.

Benefits: Competitive Salary, Remote working, Career development.

Key Responsibilities:

• Dashboard development / technical hands-on: Building new reports for the business, supporting data modeling, setting up new data ETL processes.
• Lead a team of analysts, and provide guidance and performance feedback to help the team support the business.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for internal stakeholders, providing regular updates on dashboard development and data issues.
• Ensure reports are built in efficient and effective manners, and establish best practices to allow self-service reporting.
• Proactively identify opportunities to improve processes and tools, actively drive changes to enhance efficiency.
• Manage and maintain the Fabric environment, Power BI workspaces and Power BI semantic models.
• Travel to office locations (1-2 times per month) to lead data workshops, deliver dashboard support and build relationships with stakeholders.

Experience Required:

• Proficiency in Power BI (analysing and visualising data) and SQL (pulling and storing data), with a strong understanding of data ingestion, storage, and modelling best practices.
• Proven experience leading a technical team, within a data / BI setting.
• Provide consistent communication to stakeholders across the business, ensure alignment between data team activity and business requirements.
• Ability to manage multiple ongoing projects and take a flexible approach to assigning actions/resources.
• Strong attention to detail, commitment to data quality, and best practices.
• Knowledge of Fabric, Cosmos DB and data lakehouse best practices would be advantageous.

The Airedale Group is expanding rapidly, employing circa 700 people across multiple locations in the UK. This is a fantastic time to be joining the business with opportunities for career progression.