Data Strategy & Governance Mentor

Markel International; City of Westminster; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK data training company is seeking a Data Strategy Coach to guide professionals in developing strategic data capabilities. This role involves running interactive coaching sessions, providing constructive feedback, and helping learners apply their knowledge to real-world scenarios. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data governance, quality, and product development. The position can be based in London or be remote, offering a flexible working environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in making data work for businesses.
• Proficient in constructing effective data management initiatives.
• Ability to coach and develop strategic capabilities in others.

Responsibilities

• Run live coaching sessions bringing concepts to life through discussion.
• Review learner work and provide constructive feedback.
• Guide learners through building data governance frameworks.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality

Data product development

Coaching skills

Job description

Data Strategy Coach – iO‑Sphere

London or Remote (UK). Full-time or Part-time. You’ve spent years making data work for businesses – building data products, improving data quality, standing up governance frameworks, or leading data management initiatives. You know what good looks like because you’ve built it. Now you’re wondering if there’s a way to do something different with that expertise – more variety, more direct impact on people’s careers, and less of the same corporate patterns on repeat. What if you could help ambitious professionals develop the same strategic data capabilities you’ve built, and watch them transform how their organisations work with data?

About iO‑Sphere

Traditional training is broken. Learners finish courses with theory but no real capability – the experience gap. We solve that. At iO‑Sphere, learners don’t sit through lectures. They come to work in PRISM, our fully simulated company with 500 m+ rows of real data, where they tackle realistic business problems and build practical skills they can use immediately. Combined with high‑touch coaching from people who’ve actually done the work, we deliver real capability development – not just content consumption.

We’re one of the UK’s fastest‑growing Data & AI training companies, running skills‑levy funded programmes for working professionals. Our Data & AI Strategy programme develops the next generation of data leaders – people who can govern data responsibly, build trusted data systems, drive AI initiatives, and turn strategy into measurable business outcomes.

The Team

Our coaching team is exceptional – former data scientists, analytics directors, engineers, and AI practitioners who decided to do something different with their expertise. You’ll be joining a high‑performing, tight‑knit group that takes ownership, holds itself to a high bar, and has a lot of fun doing it.

The Role

You’ll coach working professionals through our Data & AI Strategy programme – helping them develop the strategic capabilities that turn technical experts into data leaders. You’ll also contribute across our Data Analytics and AI Skills programmes where your experience adds value. This isn’t lecturing. You’ll run interactive sessions, give deep feedback on real projects, challenge thinking, and help learners apply what they’re learning directly in their roles. You’ll guide them through building data governance frameworks, designing data products, making the business case for data initiatives, and navigating the organisational complexity that comes with driving data strategy.

Day‑to‑day

• Run live coaching sessions that bring concepts to life through discussion, not slides.
• Review learner work and give honest, constructive feedback that actually develops capability.
• Help learners connect programme content to their real jobs – making it stick.
• Coach on data governance, data quality, data product development, and building the