At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead a team to transform data into actionable insights for better decision-making.
- Company: Fast-scaling international marketplace with a focus on innovative data use.
- Benefits: EAP, employee discounts, learning support, dog-friendly office, and social events.
- Other info: Ideal for a senior data leader eager to elevate insight standards across functions.
- Why this job: Shape the future of data in a dynamic environment and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Strong analytics experience, team leadership, SQL/Python skills, and stakeholder management.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 80000 £ per year.
Brighton, hybrid, 2 days per week onsite.
We’re supporting a fast-scaling, international marketplace business that is investing heavily in how data is used across the company. This is not a “more dashboards” type of role. It is a senior insight and data leadership position focused on improving the quality of commercial decision‑making across customer, pricing, marketing and finance.
You’ll lead the central analytics and insight capability, manage and develop a small team, and help shape how the business moves towards a more modern, AI‑enabled, democratised approach to data. The role sits at the centre of a growing hub‑and‑spoke data model, working closely with embedded data roles in product/platform squads while owning the central foundations: certified metrics, semantic layers, trusted insight, governance, standards and decision‑support.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading and developing a team of data specialists
- Partnering with senior commercial stakeholders across customer, pricing, marketing and finance
- Turning ambiguous business questions into clear, actionable insight
- Owning trusted data foundations, including certified metrics, semantic layers and insight standards
- Supporting AI and LLM‑enabled access to data, with the right guardrails in place
- Driving better data culture, stronger decision‑making and sharper commercial recommendations
- Helping shape a wider data community of practice as the business scales
We’re looking for someone with:
- Strong experience across analytics, insight, decision science or applied data
- Proven experience leading, coaching and growing data teams
- Strong SQL and/or Python capability
- A good understanding of the modern data stack across analytics, engineering, insight and advanced analytics
- Commercially focused stakeholder management experience
- The ability to tell the story behind the data and influence senior decision‑makers
- Experience operating across multiple internal functions with competing priorities
Bonus points for experience with:
- Semantic layers, metrics layers or LLM‑over‑warehouse capability
- Marketplace, e‑commerce or consumer‑facing businesses
- Experimentation, A/B testing or decision science in a product/commercial setting
- Helping a data team move from traditional analytics towards a more full‑stack model
- Hub‑and‑spoke data structures or embedded data roles
Package and benefits include:
- EAP and employee discounts
- Learning and development support
- Dog‑friendly office and active social calendar
This would suit a senior data leader who enjoys being close to the business, can raise the standard of insight across multiple functions, and wants to play a key role in shaping how data works in a scaling marketplace environment.
