Senior Manager Data and Insights

As part of our continued growth and investment in our data and analytics capabilities we have an exciting opportunity for Senior Manager Data and Insights to join AJ Bell.

As the Senior Manager Data and Insights
, you will play a pivotal role in leading the delivery of high-impact data, business intelligence solutions, and commercial and customer analytics that help inform and sharpen the AJ Bell D2C strategy.

This role sits at the heart our business and you will act as a trusted partner and adviser to our senior management team along with colleagues from product, marketing, digital and UX ensuring they have high quality data and insight at their fingertips.

• Leadership of a growing and high performing team of data engineers, BI developers, and analysts – coaching individuals and the team to deliver their best for the business. Fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning to drive professional growth and development within the team.
• Developing and delivering the D2C data strategy through consulting with stakeholders and developing a comprehensive understanding of their goals and strategies, ensuring our data architecture is robust, fit-for-purpose and scalable against out ambitious growth ambition.
• Ensuring strong technical and business processes including documentation so that our data pipelines and data assets are robust, and that change is delivered in a governed and controlled manner and at the pace our stakeholders require
• Setting out and delivering our reporting architecture, guiding the team to continuously improve our suite of dashboards, and rolling them put to the business and taking the lead on delivering self-service and improved data literacy across the division. You’ll continually evolve our dashboard suite in line with stakeholder feedback
• Develop the analytics and insight roadmap, engaging with senior leaders across the business to ensure their immediate and longer-term needs are met. You will also act as the data and analytics SME in critical projects and programmes, ensuring they are supported with time-critical, relevant, and high-quality insights.
• Ensure the team deliver high-quality analytics projects that are accurate and on time/on brief but also that there are clear and well-evidenced recommendations and actions in place.
• Working closely with our stakeholders in D2C (particularly Marketing and Product) to understand their plans and strategies to develop an operating model and plans for data and analytics.
• You’ll also take the lead on engaging with and working closely with our central data and technology teams to deliver changes and create an aligned way of working and ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Continually assess our ways of working and roadmaps, proactively identifying opportunities for efficiency and innovation
• Working closely with our central data and technology colleagues to collaborate on projects, share best practice and agree on common ways of working across the AJ Bell data community
• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and industry standards related to data privacy, security, and confidentiality. You’ll ensure the team have effective controls in place, monitor any risks to the team, and own the rectification of any data incidents.
• Supporting and enabling the business to achieve its regulatory requirements, including consumer duty.

• Significant proven experience in leading and developing data, reporting and analytics teams in financial services or a highly regulated industry
• Excellent long-term planning and short-term prioritisation skills, including effective communication and ensuring delivery of priorities
• Experience of developing a data and analytics strategy and evidence of delivering against a prioritised roadmap
• A track record of delivering highly scalable and robust data architecture, and in particular working with real time or near real time data and pipelines.
• Experience of working with diverse data sources across customer, transactional and external data, and different cadences. Experience of working with third party data enhancement and marketing data sources such as Google Analytics is…