Hiring for Leading companies - POD Lead

Job Description:

POD Lead

Principal Accountabilities and Responsibilities (e.g., for Business, Customers and Stakeholders; internal control environment, etc.)

• Lead the delivery of BI and Analytics solutions to accomplish measurable outcomes for client’s Global businesses and functions.
• Manage a multi-disciplinary team formed of business analysts, data analysts, data scientists, visualisation specialists to deliver use cases via Agile.
• Report progress to senior stakeholders and business sponsors by operating and participating in key steering and governance committees.
• When delivering BI and Analytics solutions, enforce tooling and reporting standards within the team.
• Partner with the central data asset, architecture, data sourcing, technology and Vendor data teams to drive the strategic buildout of high quality reusable data assets, analytics and BI 
• Influence strategy and shape the programme approach across a series of projects or component activities, building stakeholder buy-in around plans, commitments and changes.
• Drive programme delivery proactively, balancing scope, schedule, interdependencies, budget and risks
• Lead definition of staffing, responsibilities and schedules
• Establish effective programme controls and procedures.
• Set high expectations concerning quality and put in place quality assurance processes.
• Manage relationships with external suppliers.
• Report progress, issues, dependencies and risks to steering committees and make recommendations to influence decision making in order to maintain progress towards delivery and benefits realisation
• Provide visible leadership to maintain a focus on how the programme aligns to the change portfolio.
• Drive the adoption of client’s standards and work in alignment with client’s methodology at all times.
• Lead the team to meet performance targets aligned to programme objectives.

Leadership & Teamwork 

• Build and leverage deep relationships with key Business customers to understand, generate, prioritise and meet demand for BI and Analytics opportunities.

Functional Knowledge

• Consistent Use Case delivery track record using Agile.
• Deep knowledge of data and analytics delivery life cycle.
• Experience in managing teams with diverse skillsets and disciplines to deliver exceptional customer service and value.
• Functional knowledge of financial services/ESG preferable
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent problem solving skills.
• Experience in forming advisory relationship with senior managers.
• Experience of working with on premise and/or cloud data refineries preferable.
• Experience with one or more visualization technologies, Qlik or Tableau preferable
• Experience in data privacy, model risk management preferable.
• Experience in delivering in a highly regulated environment preferable.