What's the job?
1. Owner of all data demand into B&Q data squad & Kingfisher Data teams, ensuring a single, agreed view on key deliverables to drive highest impact and key business strategies.
2. Build strong partnerships with leaders across multiple business functions to consult on key challenges, influence priorities, and identify where data can drive performance and efficiency
3. Collaborate across Data & Analytics and key business domains, to support in the development of clear data briefs with clear measures for impact and success criteria.
4. Lead the shift towards product-oriented, reusable data assets, ensuring existing solutions are scaled and repurposed where appropriate to avoid duplication, accelerate delivery, and drive long-term business value.
5. Develop & own the Data Demand Roadmap and oversee the delivery of data products across workstreams.
6. Identify & manage team interdependencies and ensure the roadmap is regularly reviewed and agreed to prioritise resource on the highest value deliverables
7. Lead the B&Q Data Squad (Data Designers, Data Engineers), managing the workflow and priorities across the squad and support in bringing together broader skillset to deliver on time and to budget.
8. Act as an escalation point for issues and risks that could impact agreed scope, schedule, costs or quality
9. Establish close work relationships with peers within Kingfisher, adopting common work practices & delivery tooling, and identifying cross functional demand to mitigate duplication and optimize resource aligned to B&Q
10. Embed Data Demand forums & establish practices to both collate & triage data requirements and to engage & communicate progress across key stakeholders
11. Champion the value of our Data Platform, Data Products and team and showcase impact in driving business strategies with senior leadership
12. Manage the lifecycle of our data assets and products through Product kitemarking, ensuring continued review during deliver to continued use to retirement, working closely with Governance & operations to make sure deliveries are compliant and customer centric
13. Embed the use of B&Q & Kingfisher data management tooling to drive efficiency in how we build and deliver our programmes of work through the Data Squad
14. Work with B&Q Tech & Finance Business partners to ensure effective budget planning, financial management and reporting of the overall programme or portfolio
15. Encourage & facilitate continuous improvement within delivery teams, whilst ensuring a level of consistency in delivery best practices adopted across workstreams
What we need:
16. Proven track record of leading business change initiatives in a complex global organisation and significant experience in delivery of enterprise level Data, BI or Product solutions in relevant industries
17. Experience of creating high performing data squads, through matrixed management
18. Expert at project and programme delivery methods (incl. Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid), with significant experience in leading and communicating status, impact, etc of data programmes of work
19. Experience in building strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organisation
20. Highly organised and structured in approach, equally adepts at identifying opportunities as risks and mitigation strategies to ensure consistent, high quality deliveries
21. Good working knowledge of Data Platforms and use of Data within organisations, and understanding of governance and compliance requirements including knowledge of budgeting and financial management
22. Strong appreciation of process design and implementation and how to embed these within a new team/function
23. Strategic thinker with the ability to implement strategies through pragmatic and realistic roadmaps and actions plans
What's in it for me?
As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are.We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.
We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!
So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact for any recruitment adjustments.