MS&E Data & Projects Lead: Insight to Impact

Cognita Schools; Dubai; On-site; AED 360,000 - 520,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognita is seeking an MS&E Data and Projects Manager to turn information from across our clusters and schools into one trusted, decision-ready view of commercial performance. You’ll report to senior leaders and steer projects that improve reporting speed and consistency.

This high-visibility role sits within our Marketing, Sales & Experience function, offering exposure to the CCO, CEO and CFO and the chance to turn messy data into clear commercial insights.

Qualifications

• Able to collate data from multiple regions into a single trusted view.
• Experience building, maintaining or migrating dashboards across systems.
• Strong attention to detail, especially consolidating manual, CRM and BI reporting.
• Clear written and verbal communication, turning data into insight for senior stakeholders.
• Experience in data, insight, commercial operations or project management in a multi-site org.
• Proven ownership of data, process or dashboard projects.

Responsibilities

• Collate data from across teams and clusters into a consolidated, trusted view of commercial performance for the CCO.
• Run and coordinate cross-functional projects spanning Marketing, Sales, CRM, Parent Experience and Finance.
• Own the Brand Health Score process end-to-end, coordinating school-level assessments for review outputs.
• Own the Group's market research and insight programme, including EY research and Annual Market Insights.
• Provide data insight on pupil, enrolment and joiner reporting to support commercial decisions.
• Support Sales forecasting alignment with Finance.
• Act as business owner for dashboards and process projects underpinning MS&E transformation; define requirements, test, rollout.
• Own the rollover and maintenance of reporting across HubSpot, Power BI and trackers.
• Prepare decision-ready reporting for CCO, CEO, CFO, cluster leaders and governance forums.

Skills

Data analysis

Cross-functional leadership

Project management

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Multi-region experience

Data governance

Education

Degree-level education or equivalent

Tools

Power BI

HubSpot

Job description

Cognita is seeking an MS&E Data and Projects Manager to turn information from across our clusters and schools into one trusted, decision-ready view of commercial performance. You’ll report to senior leaders and steer projects that improve reporting speed and consistency.

This high-visibility role sits within our Marketing, Sales & Experience function, offering exposure to the CCO, CEO and CFO and the chance to turn messy data into clear commercial insights.