We are seeking a hands-on UK Data Specialist to own and evolve data sourcing, quality, and integration for the UK market. This role is responsible for building and running the UK DataHub/Digital Offer, improving data quality at source, optimising data costs, and enabling the business鈥攅specially Sales鈥攖hrough reliable, well-governed data. You will collaborate closely with regional/global data teams, IT, procurement, and UK data providers to ensure robust, compliant, and value-driven data capabilities.
Key Responsibilities:
Data Quality, Governance & Source Management
- Improve the quality of UK data sources through profiling, monitoring, cleansing, and remediation.
- Implement and uphold Group data governance frameworks to ensure compliant, secure, and high-quality data management in the UK.
- Define, maintain, and operationalise data matching rules, keying/linking strategies, and entity resolution to support multi鈥憇ourcing.
- Lead ongoing data discussions with UK data providers and support contractual conversations (licensing, SLAs, usage rights).
- Deeply understand UK public and commercial sources (e.g., Companies House, HM Courts, CCJs) and integrate them effectively into the data ecosystem.
Business Impact & Enablement
- Create and operate the UK DataHub/Digital Offer as the technical owner, ensuring it reliably supports analytics, BI, and downstream processes.
- Optimise the total cost of data (licensing, storage, compute, usage) and track ROI of data investments.
- Support Sales with high-quality datasets, insights, and technical pre鈥憇ales (e.g., data coverage checks, feasibility assessments, and demos).
- Translate business requirements into technical designs for data acquisition, integration, and access, ensuring measurable business outcomes.
Stakeholder Management & Vendor Relations
- Collaborate with Procurement, Legal, and Compliance on data provider evaluation, contracts, and usage policies.
- Maintain strong relationships with UK data providers; proactively manage changes (schemas, delivery methods, quality) and coordinate impact assessments.
- Communicate clearly with business stakeholders, setting expectations and prioritising based on value, risk, and effort.