AI & Data Strategy Director

Trade Nation; United Kingdom; Sur place; GBP 140 000 - 190 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Competitive salary

Discretionary annual bonus

Private healthcare

Active lifestyle allowance

Extra location flexibility up to 3 wks

Résumé du poste

Trade Nation is seeking an experienced Head of Data & AI to lead our data and AI strategy across the organisation. You will enable self-service data access and embed AI into day-to-day operations, guiding a team of analysts and partnering with data engineering, compliance and senior stakeholders.

The role is 60% AI and 40% data, with responsibility for driving AI adoption, building capability, and delivering measurable business impact across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership experience within Data, Analytics or AI functions.
• Demonstrable success implementing AI solutions that have transformed business workflows and delivered measurable impact.
• Strong track record delivering projects from concept through to production and adoption.
• Hands-on SQL, data modelling and analytics engineering.
• Experience with cloud data platforms such as Redshift, Snowflake, BigQuery.

Responsabilités

• Own and drive AI strategy from opportunity identification through to deployment, adoption and value realisation.
• Redesign business workflows around AI, focusing on practical outcomes rather than tool adoption.
• Build AI capability through training, prompt libraries, templates and a network of AI champions.
• Measure and report AI adoption, success metrics and lessons learned.
• Own the business-facing gold layer of the data warehouse, including metrics, definitions and quality standards.
• Develop and extend the semantic data model to ensure consistent, trusted access to business data.
• Champion data self-service, empowering teams to answer their own questions efficiently.
• Establish and maintain best practices for analytics engineering, including testing, version control, documentation and code reviews.
• Simplify and improve the quality of the data estate.
• Deliver proactive insights and recommendations to senior leadership.

Connaissances

SQL

Data modelling

Analytics engineering

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder management

Outils

dbt

Description du poste

Trade Nation is seeking an experienced Head of Data & AI to lead our data and AI strategy across the organisation. You will enable self-service data access and embed AI into day-to-day operations, guiding a team of analysts and partnering with data engineering, compliance and senior stakeholders.

The role is 60% AI and 40% data, with responsibility for driving AI adoption, building capability, and delivering measurable business impact across multiple jurisdictions.