Senior Data Consultant (Analytics & Insights)

Valcon; Utrecht; Hybrid; EUR 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Personal development

Innovative environment

Immediate impact

Inspiring culture

Mobility budget

Sabbatical option

Sports membership

Remote work abroad

Community events

Job summary

Valcon seeks a Senior Data Consultant (Analytics & Insights) to lead analytics initiatives, mentor team members, and guide clients in data-driven decision making. You will work with stakeholders to define data requirements, hypotheses, and end-to-end insight solutions, while shaping Valcon’s analytics practice.

You will lead data analyses, design dashboards, and implement frameworks to measure business outcomes, all while coaching junior colleagues and contributing to community standards.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in business/data analysis, BI, or analytics, with consulting experience.
• Extensive experience with SQL and BI tools (Power BI, Qlik, Tableau).
• Able to work with complex datasets and design end-to-end insight solutions.
• Strong data modelling understanding and ability to connect data to business outcomes.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management; leadership experience.
• Fluent in Dutch and English.

Responsibilities

• Lead data analyses and translate findings into business recommendations.
• Define dashboards, reports, and visualizations.
• Define and implement frameworks to track business outcomes with stakeholders.
• Coach mid-level and junior analysts on best practices.
• Act as sparring partner for clients on data topics (BI, data quality, governance).
• Contribute to Valcon’s analytics and BI community.
• Help shape standards, frameworks and best practices.

Skills

SQL

Power BI

Qlik

Tableau

Data analysis

BI / Analytics

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Qlik

Tableau

Job description

Are you a Senior Data consultant ready to take on analytical challenges and lead others?

Valcon is looking for a Senior Data Consultant (Analytics & Insights) to lead insight-driven initiatives and mentor team members in a fast-paced consultancy environment.

Imagine you are helping to transform our clients’ companies into data driven organisations. You are in close contact with business stakeholders on your project and can formulate the right hypotheses to solve their business problems. Based on this you define a method or approach and gather and define the right data requirements, test the hypotheses and work towards the solution for their business problem.

What will you do?

As a Senior Data Analyst, you don’t just deliver analyses — you shape how clients think about data. You proactively identify opportunities for improvement, lead the design and implementation of KPIs and dashboards, and guide clients in making informed, data-backed decisions. You also coach and train junior analysts and help shape Valcon’s growing analytics practice.

Among your responsibilities will be the following:

• Lead data analyses and translate them into business recommendations.
• Define dashboards, reports, and visualizations.
• Define and implement frameworks and methods to track business outcomes in collaboration with business stakeholders.
• Coach med-level and junior colleagues on best practices and analytical approaches.
• Act as a sparring partner for clients on data topics (BI, data quality, governance).
• Contribute to Valcon’s analytics and BI community.
• Help shape our standards, frameworks and best practices.

What do we offer you?

• Personal development: a tailor-made growth path with trainings, courses, certifications and mentoring by experienced colleagues.
• An innovative work environment: collaborate with a team of experts pushing boundaries in data, technology, and consulting.
• Immediate impact and responsibility: you’ll make a difference for our clients from day one and are entrusted with responsibilities that will bring out the best in you.
• Inspiring work culture: a supportive, flexible, and no-nonsense environment that fosters your growth and fully allows you to be yourself.

Additionally, we offer:

• A company car or mobility budget.
• A workplace that prioritizes and respects your work-life balance (for example by offering you the option of taking a sabbatical or expand the amount of holidays per year).
• An affordable sports membership that allows you to participate in 50 different sports offered by over 10,000 partners.
• The opportunity to work remotely from abroad for 10 days per year.
• A vibrant community that organizes both professional and social events.

Experience

• You have 5+ years of experience in business/data analysis, BI, or analytics, and ideally some previous consulting experience.
• You have multiple years of experience with SQL and BI tools like Power BI, Qlik, Tableau.
• You are comfortable working with complex datasets and designing end-to-end insight solutions.
• You can read and grasp different data models and understand data modelling concepts.
• You have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
• You are experienced in a leadership role and can guide a team of colleagues.
• You have a thorough understanding of data concepts and the ability to connect data requirements to core business processes and business outcomes.
• You are familiar with doing research in a business environment, for example with interviews or surveys.
• You can build and maintain a relevant network at current and new clients.
• You are curious and have both integrity and a can-do mentality.
• You are fluent in Dutch and English.