Data Analytics Manager

Summary

Join Mintel as a Data Analytics Manager and lead a team of data analysts and BI developers. You will play a key role in utilizing BI tools like Looker and Sigma, along with SQL and Python, to deliver data solutions. Collaborate with cross-functional teams, business stakeholders, and IT engineering to improve effectiveness. This role offers the unique opportunity to establish best practices and remain hands-on, acting as a player-coach. Mintel provides a collaborative remote-work culture, generous holiday allowance, personal development time, social events, and a hybrid work model.

Requirements

• Experience managing developments to embed BI tools such as Looker and Sigma into client-facing web applications for SaaS use
• Experience leading a small global team across the US and UK
• Experience working with cross-functional data teams in an agile or scrum environment

Responsibilities

• Build great relationships with business stakeholders, understand overall goals, organize activities to detail requirements and unearth risks and opportunities, and build trust
• Help clarify business goals for data team members, and ensure valuable technical quality and reliability work is well planned and understood by the Product Owner and stakeholders
• Build good relationships with developers on your team, take on line management responsibility for team members, help them grow in their careers and improve their effectiveness
• Facilitate and promote agile / Scrum processes within the team
• Encourage introspection, drive continuous improvement activities within the team
• Help the team develop a sense of ownership of their work and their product, encourage them to improve their development, build and QA practices and advocate for non-functional system improvements
• Get involved in department improvements holistically, through effective 1-1 networking or via best practice conversations with groups of colleagues

Preferred Qualifications

Experience partnering with business stakeholders and helping IT engineering teams improve their effectiveness

Benefits

• Culture that supports true collaboration whilst embracing remote working
• Generous holiday allowance with the opportunity to buy additional holiday
• Approach to personal development where every team member has two weeks of personal development time per year to learn and share what they’ve learned with others
• Frequent social events, both within the department and across the company
• A working model which is a blend of home and office working