Head of Insignt and Analytics
Director Level
Europe
$280K+
Just imagine driving the transformation of how a global organization harnesses data; setting the direction for end-to-end Insights & Analytics, and empowering teams to turn data into meaningful business impact. In this role, you’ll guide and inspire a high-performing global team, coaching them and the wider organization to translate complex data into clear strategic choices. Partnering closely with senior leadership, you’ll foster a truly data-driven culture by connecting functions, systems, and ways of working, ensuring insights are embedded into everyday decisions and deliver measurable value at scale!
Please note: This role is at Director level
Core Responsibilities:
• Own the end-to-end Insights & Analytics strategy for Education, spanning the data platform, analytics products, insight delivery, and reporting infrastructure; anticipate how data, AI, and technology will reshape the business
• Lead a global team of analytics partners, insights specialists, and reporting enablement professionals (a team of ~8 in Denmark & US), building capability, ways of working, and a high-performance culture
• Serve as the primary insight partner to the Education President and Leadership Team, translating end-to-end business data into executive-level strategic narratives, clear choices, and ‘insight to impact.’
• Lead the shift to a data-driven culture (not a “data function”) by partnering across Commercial, Product, Marketing, Finance, Digital Technology, and other functions to embed insights into planning, governance, and day-to-day decision making.
• Define and lead the transformation of I&A through a strategic roadmap that translates priority business questions into analytics products, self-serve reporting, and decision enablement, tracking value creation and adoption.
• Think in systems, not silos: connect data sources, teams, and processes end-to-end to improve speed, quality, and consistency of insights across Education
• Ensure strong governance, ethics & trust: define data stewardship, quality standards, and privacy-by-design practices; work closely with Legal, Finance, and Digital Technology to enable responsible use of data and AI stories, scalable solutions and measurable business results.
Drive and Ability:
The ideal candidate has progressive experience in analytics, business insights, data science, and/or strategy/management consulting with a strong analytics component, including senior stakeholder partnering. In addition, we expect that you have:
• Proven people leadership experience building and leading global teams and capabilities (e.g., insights, analytics, data products, BI/reporting enablement) and track record of leading projects and people with global scale
• Well-rounded grasp of analytics, data science, AI/ML, and modelling concepts. Able to set direction, coach experts, and make sound trade-offs between value, speed, and technical complexity
• Demonstrated track record of using AI and advanced analytics to change business outcomes (e.g., forecasting, segmentation, pricing/pack architecture, experimentation, automation, GenAI-enabled decision support) and to reshape ways of working
• Experience supporting or driving organizational change, with the ability to introduce new ways of working and bring stakeholders along
• Champions a data-driven culture, not a data function; able to prioritize and take people on a change journey
• Familiarity with Databricks or a cloud Lakehouse environment for building and maintaining analytical views advantageous.
It will be an advantage if you have Education and/or EdTech experience, but not a requirement.
Interested? Please send your Microsoft Word CV to Jonny Scott-Slater, Vish Atari, Joey Polpero or Ashley Armstrong LLM.
E - uswwrecruitment@aol.com
We will contact you by email and arrange a preliminary discussion.
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We are currently invloved in seeking the above mentioned category of professional. We are speaking to candidates in the market using direct approach methodologies.
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