Data Automation Lead - London, United Kingdom - Mindshare

Mindshare

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London, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Role:

Data Automation Lead

Department/Team:

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Data and Analytics

Role Objective**Mindshare is looking for a passionate data professional to continue to build our Data Automation function in the UK. Sitting within our wider Data & Analytics team, the role leads on Data Engineering and Business Intelligence, leading a team that creates and delivers a pipeline of work for our clients that helps enable clients to understand the impact of their media activations and optimise their investments. The role also leverages cloud technology to help transform the wider business by supporting on data centralisation and automation needs.

About the role

The Data Automation Lead will act as the SME for Business Intelligence and Data Engineering both within Mindshare and for our clients.

The role oversees a team of BI Developers and Data Engineers developing dashboards and data automation solutions for our clients, with the aim of expanding on this work as we go into 2024.

Supported by the Head of Data & Technology Services, the role will build a pipeline of new projects while overseeing delivery of existing work.

Responsibilities will include:

Line management of the Data Automation team including projecting management, resourcing, hiring, coaching & mentoring.
Setting the standard for Business Intelligence at Mindshare UK, defining bestpractices, creating casestudies, increasing visibility of our work internally and leading as the SME in the space.
Scoping new projects, consulting with clients to understand requirements, defining deliverables, working with the team to design the technical solution.
Projectmanagement of existing work leveraging tools such as Jira and Confluence, acting as lead contact for clients in terms of escalations, being accountable for successful delivery.
Overseeing development and maintenance of Mindshare UK's central data platform, capturing and curating the data critical to analytics outputs
Ensuring the team spend time on appropriate training and research & development work, both to upskill and to help develop our offering.
Ability to get stuckin and assist with handson Data Engineering/BI work or technical mentoring to aid with strategic projects is a plus.

About you

Passion for solving problems driving success through data, excellent 'data storyteller' with the ability to contextualise data and turn it into actionable insight.
Team leadership of technical teams including developers and engineers, experience with project delivery methodologies such as Agile.
Clientfacing experience including solutions design, with the ability to clearly define requirements, provide consultancy and avoid scope creep.
Experience of having worked handson in previous roles in data engineering and/or analytics, including with dashboarding tools such as Power BI, Tableau or similar.
Excellent projectmanagement skills, with the ability to oversee multiple projects simultaneously and work through others to meet deadlines.
Experience creating and developing best practices around Data Engineering and Business Intelligence as well as contributing to product development in the space.
Good communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to nontechnical stakeholders.

What we can offer

you

A strong salary commensurate and inline with relevant experience
25 days annual leave and your birthday day off
Ongoing internal and external training opportunities
Flexible working
The opportunity to attend industry conferences and awards nights
Career and personal progression
Private Healthcare
Excellent pension matching structure

About Mindshare

Mindshare is a leading global marketing and media services network with billings in excess of £23billion worldwide. We work with some of the most famous businesses and brands in the UK such as Unilever, Ford, KFC, Marks & Spencer and TK Maxx. The Mindshare network consists of 116 offices across 86 countries throughout the USA, Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia Pacific; each dedicated to forging competitive marketing advantage for businesses and their brands.

Our approach

Our ambition is to drive Good Growth for our clients.
Good Growth is about delivering growth that is enduring and is considerate of people and planet. Media is a powerful force, and we need to be mindful of the responsibility that it brings. We help our clients make better decisions by ensuring we use media in a trusted, inclusive and sustainable way. We recognise that in order to drive Good Growth, we need to place people at the heart of everything we do. Understanding people, not demographics allows us to place media meaningfully into their lives.
Good Growth is a big ambition one which inspires change for the industry but also for our agency and we achieve this through our values of Energy, Empathy and Impact.

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