Data Business Consultant

Salary: £ Negotiable DOE



Our client is on the hunt for a talented Data Business Consultant to join their Technology and Data teams. Working flexibly, you'll spend most of your time working from home, with approximately one day a week in the office.

 

This exciting role is key within our Data & Analytics team where you’ll be responsible for capturing, refining, and translating high-level business requirements into data specific epics and user stories to inform technical design and build activities. We’re looking for somebody who loves collaboration as you’ll lead collaborative, partnership-based engagements with business stakeholders to detail how data and analytics will support the achievement of their business objectives and drive valuable business outcomes.

 

Operating with a broad outcome-based brief, the Data Business Consultant will challenge established thinking and stimulate new ideas and approaches to accelerate the effective utilisation of data across our business. Do you possess an agile mindset? If you’re a fast-paced, ambitious team player who gets great things done you’ll fit right in here.

 

Innovative and agile? Let’s do this together!

 

You’ll be the perfect person for us if: 

 

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  Demonstrate proven experience of business partnering, consulting, and leading on data & analytics initiatives.


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  Love working in a fast paced and constantly evolving organisation.


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  Enjoy taking ownership and being accountable for delivery.


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  Have a passion for delivering valuable business outcomes to your business stakeholders.

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  Strong experience of taking a broad ambiguous brief and putting shape, structure, and approach around it.


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  A strong background in data requirement elicitation using agile practices.


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  Significant experience of planning and facilitating workshops of varying sizes.


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  Proven experience of influencing and managing stakeholders at all levels, with the ability to communicate key messages across multiple areas of the business.


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  Experience working in high-demand environments delivering to targets & tight deadlines.


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  Background in proposing data solutions to meet business needs and creating data epics and user stories as part of agile delivery methods.


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  Broad understanding of data visualisation, data engineering and data governance, with deep experience in one or more.


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  Experience of analytics platforms such as PowerBI, Tableau, QlikSense etc


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  Experience of coaching and mentoring others.


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  Ideally previous experience in working in a consultancy or data product delivery environment.


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  Experience of collaboration and agile software management tools such as Confluence, Azure DevOps, Jira


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  Good grounding in agile software change practices, ideally in a data function.

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  Proactive, self-starter with an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to work autonomously with little direction, owning and demonstrating sole accountability for delivery.


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  Versed in functional/non-functional requirements gathering and definition.


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  Able to confidently act as interface between delivery / technical and non-technical colleagues.


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  Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to engage, influence and inspire stakeholders and colleagues to drive collaboration and alignment.


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  Strong oral communication skills: you are skilled at presenting and explaining technical information in a non-technical way.


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  Strong service focus and a passion for delivering high-quality products to your stakeholders.


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  Ability to build deep, trust-based relationships with colleagues.


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  Excellent planning, time management and organisation skills with proven ability to prioritise, organise and work in a fast-paced environment to deliver results on a timely basis.


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  Highly Influential, with proven experience of effective negotiation


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  Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

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  Responsible for partnering with business stakeholders to capture and shape broad business outcomes into data solution ideas, opportunities, and initiatives.


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  Responsible for developing clear, robust, and accurate data specific epics, user stories and requirements.


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  Conduct thorough data business analysis, including challenging perceptions and embedded thinking, to ensure that data requirements move the business forward and achieve broad outcomes.


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  Facilitate workshops and deliver presentations to capture requirements and generate feedback.


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  Act as an internal consultant, interpreting user requests and where appropriate, making suggestions for better/alternative ways of obtaining and presenting the required information.


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  Driving continual improvement in data business analysis working practices, bringing agile and lean practices into all aspect’s requirement work, seeking to optimise flow and reduce wait time wherever possible.


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  Agree business data definitions as part of the requirement process, that inform both the technical design and support the implementation of the data governance standards.


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  Become a trusted Data SME for the data subject areas and business domains in which you work.


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  Work alongside data product teams to quickly address points of clarification, iterate requirements, and facilitate business engagement where necessary.


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  Coach and mentor Data Business Analysts, and Business Analysts in other parts of the business around data specific requirements analysis methods and practices.


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  Actively support the testing process, ensuring traceability of requirement to solution, and helping to co-ordinate and deliver user acceptance testing.


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  Always adhere to the Company values and encourage others to demonstrate these.


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  Always ensure compliance with company and other relevant standards/regulations.

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  Outcome focussed and results driven.


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  Self-motivated and enthusiastic


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  Embraces, embeds, and incorporates the Company values.


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  Pro-active, and comfortable taking the initiative.


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  Resilient and flexible with the ability to work iteratively.


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  A positive attitude with a focus on how outcomes might be achieved.


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  Focussed on improvement of processes and oneself.


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  Desire to work in a fast-growing, fast-paced environment.


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  Life-long learner – you have a drive to learn and continually develop your skills and abilities.


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Wilde Associates is working in the capacity of an Employment Agency for this vacancy.