Head Of Data Strategy & Enablement

End Date
Saturday 27 January 2024
Salary Range
£111,469 - £131,140
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Agile Working Options
Hybrid Working
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Job Description
JOB TITLE: Head of Data Strategy & Enablement
SALARY: £109,285 - £128,570
LOCATION: Edinburgh or Leeds
HOURS: Full-time
WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites
About this opportunity
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an experienced Data leader to join the IP&I Data & Analytics Office. As a Head of Data your responsibilities will be designing and driving high quality data initiatives, drawing upon your technical expertise, whilst being open minded and leverage the opportunities the cloud provides. Here’s where you’ll make the difference:

• Lead the Data Strategy & Enablement teams in designing, developing and implementing the IP&I Data Strategy and building the Data Culture & Capability.
• Establish Centres of Excellence and enforce best practices, standards, and methodologies for Data Management and Data Privacy & Records Management ensuring alignment with our business goals and IP&I’s Data Strategy.
• Lead the build of IP&I Data talent pipelines to enable the delivery of IP&I ambitious strategy.
• You love working in ambiguity, are a self-starter and able to scope out and help deliver transformation initiatives, in a structured, logical way.
• You're an innovative problem solver; and will use your own experience and your wider network to bring in external perspectives and new insights to influence our work.
• Hire, train, coach, and evaluate the performance of the Data team, developing their skills and career growth.
• Being a team player who can build relationships and collaborate productively with other teams across IP&I and the Group.
• Champion culture of inclusivity and diversity

Why Lloyds Banking Group
Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too.
What you’ll need

• Proven experience in managing, developing and driving Data Strategy, Data Culture & Capability, Data Management and Data Privacy & Records Management teams.
• Hands-on proven experience of delivering strategic Data strategy design, aligning to business goals.
• Experience of championing and driving forward the Strategic Workforce Plan through Data Culture and Capability uplift.
• Experience of Cloud solutions and an awareness of new and emerging tools and technologies.
• Strong leadership, management, and mentoring skills, with the ability to inspire, motivate, and empower the Data team.
• Excellent communication, presentation and story-telling skills.
• Insurance, Pensions & Investments product and technical data knowledge.
• Experience of hiring, recognising and developing talent.

About working for us
Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Want to do amazing work, that’s interesting and makes a difference to millions of people? Join our journey.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.