Head of Analytics & Market Intelligence

Design, build and drive overall Analytics strategy, methodology, and roadmap for the processes, systems, tools, and capabilities required to execute and maintain core data assets.

• Team Leadership & Hiring : Lead the recruitment and setup of a high-performing data analytics team, ensuring the right mix of skills, experience, and capabilities. Mentor and guide team members to ensure continuous development and high performance.
• Data Exploration & Insights Generation : Drive the exploration of large datasets to uncover patterns, trends, and actionable insights that will influence business strategies and decisions.
• Data Manipulation : Oversee the development of complex queries, e.g., SQL, for data extraction, cleaning, and transformation. Ensure best practices are adhered to when querying and working with data.
• Visualization & Reporting : Lead the creation of impactful visualizations and dashboards using tools like Power BI, Tableau, or others to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders at all levels of the organization to support key decision making.
• Stakeholder Coordination : Collaborate closely with local markets and business leaders to understand their needs and identify data opportunities that drive business growth and operational efficiencies. Work with cross-functional teams including data analysts, data engineers / scientists and business stakeholders to define, develop and execute data strategies that align with business objectives.
• Strategic Insights & Recommendations : Provide strategic recommendations based on data insights (internal and external, e.g., ICIS, Platt etc) that influence key decisions across the organization. Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Develop and implement plans for business / market intelligence activities to identify trends that can help departments, managers, and executives make business decisions, i.e., modernise and improve the data-related processes and business in the Corporation.
• Team Management : Oversee day-to-day operations of the analytics team, ensuring high levels of collaboration, accountability, and performance.
• Lead data stewardship and master data governance for procurement.
• Develop data science capabilities and coordinate cross-functional analytics initiatives.
• Promote a data-driven culture and support staff training in data systems.
• Maintain and analyze the Procurement Spend Map for value opportunities.
• Monitor procurement compliance by analyzing commercial deals against market benchmarks and enforcing decision-making frameworks.
• Perform additional relevant tasks as assigned.

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About the Company

We are ambitious! We have grown significantly – both organically and inorganically. We are a FTSE 250 listed company, 22% of our revenue comes from newly commercialized products, and we’re recognized in the top-quartile for chemicals manufacturing safety.

We believe in high challenge, high support! We are keen to let you contribute in real roles from day 1. We expect a lot, but offer a lot, too. This includes onboarding, induction and learning events, networking opportunities, mentoring and personal development planning.

We personalize our approach to development! At Synthomer, you won't find generic career tracks or development programs but rather a one-size-fits-one approach to employee development. We'll partner with you to ensure you have the right experiences that build your capabilities and accelerate your career growth.

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