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Equiniti is a leading international provider of shareholder, pension, remediation, and credit technology. With over 6000 employees, it supports 37 million people in 120 countries.

EQ's vision is to be the leading global share registrar, offering complementary services to its client base and our values set the core foundations to our success. We are TRUSTED to deliver on our commitments, COMMERCIAL in building long term value, COLLABORATIVE in our approach and we IMPROVE by continually enhancing our skills and services. There has never been a better time to join EQ.

Role Summary

EQ's Global IT function has begun a transformation journey to support EQ's transition into a stronger, more profitable, product-led business, driven by real insights and the needs of its customers.

The Data Director will perform a key role in this transformation through the definition and delivery of a strategy for data to underpin and accelerate the transformation ambition. They will identify, prioritise, and deliver initiatives and new ways of working to evolve EQ's data culture, foundational capabilities and the value obtained from EQ's data assets.

They will lead a team to work closely with business and technology leaders to ensure that data is being managed, governed, and used to its fullest potential whilst complying with regulations and industry standards.

Core Duties/Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver EQ's group-wide strategy for data and analytics, aligned with the overall business strategy
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify insight-driven opportunities for growth and efficiency
• Construct, prioritise and manage a strategic transformation roadmap of data and analytics initiatives
• Direct the implementation, rollout and benefits realisation of new data management and analytics capabilities
• Develop and implement a data governance strategy to control and drive improved quality and consistency in EQ's data
• Define a product-led approach to data and analytics initiative delivery and ownership
• Define a data culture action plan to grow data fluency across the organisation and drive data product adoption
• Collaborate with leaders to ensure data policies, procedures, and guidelines meet regulations and industry standards
• Build and manage a team of data and analytics professionals and provide leadership and guidance on data-related matters
• Develop and maintain relationships with external partners and vendors related to data at Equiniti
• Stay up to date on emerging trends and technologies related to data and analytics to evolve the strategy
• Infuse a sense of ownership and pride amongst team members to deliver high quality, self-managed work outputs
• Build a strong talent pipeline through hiring, internal movements, succession planning and talent reviews
• Enable a culture of continuous improvement and learning, by coaching team members and role-modelling self-development

Skills, Capabilities and Attributes

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, such as computer science, statistics, or business desirable but not essential.
• Leadership experience defining and delivering business focused data strategies
• Experience delivering insight, analytics and data management capabilities and initiatives.

Functional Skills

Essential:

• Data and analytics strategy
• Data management and analytics program delivery
• Data governance approaches
• Success metrics & OKRs

Desirable:

• Data culture development
• Data architecture
• Data product methods
• Business Change

Behavioural Skills

Essential:

• Leadership
• Stakeholder communication
• Influence
• Problem-solving
• Collaboration
• Decision making
• Continuous learning

What We Offer

Save For Your Future - Equiniti Pension Plan; Equiniti matches your pension contributions up to 10%

All Employee Long Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – Gives all EQ Colleagues the opportunity to benefit if the current owners successfully sell the company for a profit.

Health and Wellbeing – Employee Assistance Programme: counselling, legal & wellbeing support for colleagues and their households. Life assurance cover at 4x salary with the ability to purchase enhance cover.

Employee discounts – Discounts and cashback at your favourite high street stores through our EQ Wins Platform.

Flexible Benefits – The ability to purchase a wide variety of benefits through our flex plan; gadgets, travel insurance, will writing, holiday trading and more.

Time Off – 28 days holiday + bank holidays. 2 volunteer days to get involved with a charity of your choosing.

Winning together – Equiniti ICON award vouchers; recognising the individuals going above and beyond to help the business succeed.

We are committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships.

Please note any offer of employment is subject to satisfactory pre-employment screening checks. These consist of 5 year activity & GAP verification, DBS or Access NI, Credit, Sanctions & CIFAS checks.