Data Product Lead – Analytics & Insights

Premier Inn; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Whitbread is seeking a Technical Product Lead - Data to drive data product strategies and partner with senior stakeholders across functions. You will enhance data capabilities, ensure scalable solutions, and lead technical teams to deliver high-impact BI products.

The role focuses on leveraging Power BI and Databricks to deliver insights, improve KPIs, and align data initiatives with business priorities in a hospitality environment.

Qualifications

• Strong BI and data product understanding.
• Experience with data platforms and reporting solutions.
• Excellent communication with stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Support data product strategies delivering measurable improvements.
• Partner with heads of department to identify data opportunities.
• Prioritise data product backlogs balancing value and feasibility.
• Drive adoption of data products across the business with stakeholders.
• Improve KPIs, reporting outputs and data product functionality.
• Define data quality improvement requirements across reporting tools.
• Collaborate with Data Science teams on predictive analytics in data products.
• Improve BI capabilities through innovation and best practice.
• Collaborate to maximise value of shared tools like Power BI and Databricks.
• Lead engineers and developers on initiatives, providing technical guidance.
• Coach and upskill the wider team in data product capabilities.
• Ensure data products stay cost-efficient and aligned with priorities.

Skills

BI concepts

Data visualization

Stakeholder management

Agile delivery

Communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

Power BI

Databricks

SQL

Excel

Job description

Whitbread is seeking a Technical Product Lead - Data to drive data product strategies and partner with senior stakeholders across functions. You will enhance data capabilities, ensure scalable solutions, and lead technical teams to deliver high-impact BI products.

The role focuses on leveraging Power BI and Databricks to deliver insights, improve KPIs, and align data initiatives with business priorities in a hospitality environment.