Head of Insights

Company: Harbourne Associates
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Location: Bedford
Job Description:

Job Description

**Head of Commercial Insights – Bedford – Global Company**

We are currently recruiting for a global organisation for a Senior Commercial Insight Manager to drive and develop commercial insights across the business and make actionable recommendations.

Role:

You will be responsible for;

  • Identify the critical commercial business questions that need answering and provide insight, standardised reporting, user expectations, capability, and deeper business analytics to help make recommendations.
  • Communicate insights in a powerful, quantified, and user-friendly way whilst measuring adoption and actions taken (both internal and external customers)
  • With external customers, partner with the relevant customer manage to provide regular (likely quarterly/half-yearly) insights for their customer that enables a conversation about churn reduction, penetration opportunities or category buying trends.
  • Deliver insights on the performance of our UKI business. Recommend a course of action based on sound data analytics to ad-hoc problems as identified by self, management, and other stakeholders.
  • Provide weekly and monthly analysis and reports as appropriate.
  • Implement the Portfolio Planning and Sales Incentive Framework/tools.
  • Ad hoc reporting as required.

Candidate:

The ideal candidate will;

  • Demonstrable experience in analytics, BI or related.
  • Proficiency with data analytics and visualization tools.
  • Significant business experience in Commercial Analytics and make recommendations to help drive the business forward (ideally in construction industry)
  • Stakeholder management and a track record of delivering insights into action.
  • Excellent commercial & analytical skills, driving to action.
  • Strong credibility, business acumen and professionalism.
  • Experience with advanced data visualization and tools.
  • Advanced skills to prepare communications, functional spreadsheets, and presentations.
  • Knowledge of customer success tools and KPIs.
  • Experience working across and with Sales teams with a good understanding of challenges and opportunities.

Package:

  • Basic Salary: £70,000 – £80,000 (negotiable based on experience)
  • Bonus
  • Car Allowance
  • 25 days annual leave + bank holidays
  • Pension scheme
  • Private healthcare
  • Life assurance
  • Employee assistance program

This is a great role which has a huge amount of career potential in a global business.

Posted: April 4th, 2025