Head of Data Consulting - Horsham, United Kingdom - Envitia

Envitia

Verified Company

Horsham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role descriptionThe Head of Data Consulting is a member of Envitia's Management Team, you will be responsible for the continuous development, growth and execution of Envitia's consulting offer.

You will work closely with the Sales Director, CTO and COO to ensure that Envitia's consulting offer is a strong contributor to Envitia's business model and future success.

We're a software and services company on a growth trajectory with 25+ years of experience in delivering world-class location and data software and expertise to customers in the public and private sector.

We're now looking to grow and build a team that are hungry for success.

We're creating a culture that is fun, supportive yet challenging, and we're looking for talented like-minded people to join us on this journey.

We're also looking for people who are comfortable in challenging the norm so we can get truly diverse thinking when solving problems and not just senior management making decisions - we really believe in empowerment.

What do we do_? In short, we solve complex data problems to help our customers make better and faster decisions. We do this through our team of data consultants who undertake cutting edge R&D projects or work with customers to find the best data modelling approach, architecture and standards so they're able to make use of their data. Or, through our software products where we enable customers to search for, and then visualise, data so they have great situational awareness and can make better decisions.

The Role

As a member of Envitia's Management Team, you will be responsible for the continuous development, growth and execution of Envitia's consulting offer.

You will work closely with the Sales Director, CTO and COO to ensure that Envitia's consulting offer is a strong contributor to Envitia's business model and future success.

Responsibilities:

Reporting to the CTO, the successful applicant will be responsible for delivering against the following critical objectives:

Maintain a market leading Envitia consulting offer, focused on solutions to data challenges faced by public sector customers. This includes everything from data architecture to technical detail around data modelling, data quality and BI/visualisation tools
Actively build relationships with our customers, thereby securing long term consulting accounts
Be proactive in presales activities to support sales and customer meetings, brainstorm ideas with customers, and plan and write compelling proposals
Manage and lead teams in the delivery of consultancy projects.
Develop and maintain consultancy process including adherence to relevant standards to produce a repeatable model for consultancy
Be hands on when required to support the data consultancy teams delivering customer projects
Communicate to multiple stakeholders in a language that is relevant to them
Lead the delivery of services to customers as the "face of Envitia", ensuring that consulting projects are delivered to the satisfaction of customers
Maintain excellent knowledge of internal and external capabilities, past projects, lessons learned, methods and approaches to conducting advisory assignments, including report writing
Ensure the highest standards of communication and presentation are upheld before, during and after each project including internal training and templating where required
Keep a close eye on market developments in data and geospatial data and technologies
Work closely with the Chief Technology Officer to scale advisory services to new product lines
Act as a senior leader across the business, guiding and developing junior colleagues, contributing to management decisionmaking, and representing Envitia externally

Essential Skills

Have extensive experience of managing data projects in a consultancy business
Have proven experience in presales activity and proposal writing
Have proven ability in delivery of complex technical projects
Be a robust and clearheaded, solutionoriented thinker, critical thinker and problem solver
Possess strong time management and organisational skills, with an ability to manage, supervise, lead and deliver projects to deadlines
Be highly commercially aware, with the ability to effectively consult with clients to understand, and write proposals that meet their objectives and secure further work
Demonstrate evidence of a passion for producing the highest quality work and encouraging a focus on quality in other team members
Have the ability to collaborate effectively with your colleagues and third parties with different backgrounds, skills and levels of seniority
Have a continuous improvement approach

The Benefits: