4 Thatcham Research jobs in England & Wales

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• Locations, Are you passionate about driving business insights and strategic data decisions through effective stakeholder engagement? We are seeking a dynamic individual to develop, drive, and own our data governance strategy.
In this pivotal role, you will be responsible for developing and executing a market data enrichment strategy, collaborating with key business stakeholders, and managing contract negotiations and supplier relationships. Your expertise will help us align business requirements with the right resources to drive impactful solutions. Join us and make a significant impact on our data-driven journey! As our new Data Governance Lead, you'll be responsible for:
• Data Governance Strategy: Develop, implement, and own a comprehensive, business enabling data acquisition strategy ensuring that our business has access to the right data.
• Collaborate: Collaborate with internal stakeholders to understand data needed to deliver appropriate solutions, steer where required to achieve the market data enrichment strategy
• Data Sourcing: Identify, evaluate, and acquire relevant data sets from trusted external sources.
• Budget management: Proactively manage data enrichment budget, and drive business efficiency improvements.
• Partnerships and negotiation: Establish and maintain partnerships with data providers, automotive manufacturers, insurance companies, and other key stakeholders. Negotiate mutual agreement based on monetary or other value.
• Data Ecosystem: In collaboration with Data Value Management, you will oversee the integration of acquired data into our data ecosystem, ensuring data quality, consistency, and accessibility.
• Compliance: In collaboration with the Legal and Compliance team to ensure all data acquisition and usage comply with relevant regulations and industry standards.
• Value: Ensure data/service usage and pricing is accurately recorded and intended business value understood. Plan and align: Manage demand pipeline, have a forward-facing view of data sets required., Regular updates on the progress / outcome of your application
• An initial telephone screening call with our Recruitment Business Partner
• First interview with the hiring manager, usually via Teams
• Second/Final interview, in-person at our office (we may give you a role specific task to present on!)
• Personalised feedback following your interview - because everyone deserves that!
• An opportunity to give us your honest feedback in a short survey on all of the above
We're committed to removing invisible barriers. If there are any adjustments we can make to better support you, please let us know when you apply.

Essential skills:
• Proven business acumen with experience of defining strategy through to successful execution.
• Understanding of working with Data as a Product component for business value extraction.
• Strong vendor (supplier) management and budget management skills.
• Experience of identifying and sourcing data to meet business needs.
• Experience working with legal and commercial aspects of vendor data licenses and contracts.
• Persuasive communication, interpersonal and presentation skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross functional teams and external partners to meet their needs.
• Ability to translate business requirements into language of Data and vice versa.
Desirable skills: These are desirable skills or experience and are not essential, so we would welcome applications from candidates that do not match these additional criteria.
• Previous experience as one of the following: Data Product Manager, Senior Business Analyst, Senior Business Systems Analyst, Data Procurement Lead, Data Strategist.
• Creative thinking to identify new data sources and methods for data acquisition.
• Good understanding of data acquisition tools, data integration platforms, and data analytics software.
• Knowledge of automotive and insurance sectors.
  
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Circa £68,300 negotiable + excellent benefits | Permanent | Hybrid Data Governance Lead | Circa £68,300 negotiable + excellent benefits | Permanent | Hybrid, Salary - Circa £68,300 negotiable dependent on skills & experience.
• 10% non-contributory pension
• 29 days holiday (inclusive of Christmas shutdown) + public holidays
• Group Life Assurance (equal to 3 x basic salary)
• Group Income Protection (after 2 years' service)
• Salary Sacrifice schemes (cycle to work, home & tech scheme)
• Moneyhealth's Financial Coaching & Wellbeing Platform
• Health Cash Plan (cash back on eligible medical treatments)
• Benenden Health Care (opt-in benefit)
• Reward & Recognition Programme
• Discounted gym membership
• Sports & Social club
• Payroll charitable giving
• Subsidised on-site restaurant
• Free on-site parking
When we work Our standard working hours are 8:30 - 16:30 Monday - Thursday, early finish on Friday - 8:30 - 15:45 (Talk to us about flexible working if this doesn't quite suit you - we take work-life balance seriously!), Circa £68,300 negotiable + excellent benefits | Permanent | Hybrid