Head of Data, Ascential
1-2 days a week in office
Events, intelligence & advisory company
Be an early applicant
Events, intelligence & advisory company
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1-2 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create unmissable events that bring entire industries together in inspiring settings – from the south of France to Las Vegas and Bangkok – to have the conversations that count.
Role
Who you are
- Extensive experience in roles using data in a senior management position
- Experience with various data tools including SQL, Python, Power Bi/Tableau
- Advanced Excel skills
- Ability to convert data into stories
- Naturally curious, desire to understand the market and drive increasing value
- Highly collaborative and communicative with the ability to get the best out of team members and focus on team development
What the job involves
- We're looking for a Head of Data to join our team in London as part of our Data Science function
- You will run our newly created ‘Data department of Excellence’
- Acuity Pricing webscrapes millions of lines of data every day, processes them through our proprietary algorithms and AI interfaces and delivers these in a user friendly way to our end users- market leading UK brands and retailers
- Reporting to the MD and working alongside the product team, the new Head of Data will be responsible for owning this data, creating new dashboards and visualizations to help quality control, tell data stories and spot and analyse trends
- Finding new and exciting ways to productise our data
- In this new role it is important to be a self starter, naturally curious and be able to build a data strategy and prioritisation in order to consistently add value
- Develop and manage strategies to ensure our data quality is of the utmost integrity
- Own the end to end data journey from data acquisition through to data visualization and delivery
- Leverage existing and new AI tools, liaising with our AI Lead and Catalogue Manager to find efficiencies and improvements
- Introduce data visualisation tools and ways to spot and analyse data trends, working with data analysts and content writers to create meaningful retail insights.
- Explore how our data can add additional value to clients through new insights and product sets
- You are an advocate and ally for diversity, equity and inclusion
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Ascentia dates back to 1887 when it was founded as a newspaper investment company. Its shift into business analysis and optimisation can be traced to its acquisition of Glenigan, a provider of leads and information for the construction industry in 1996. This move has evolved into an umbrella of companies which are today listed on the London Stock Exchange and the FTSE 250 Index.
After selling off many of its newspaper subsidiaries between the 90s and the 00s, Ascential utilised its catalogue of business insight to expand into events, commerce, marketing and retail. It now owns dozens of businesses that provide information on markets and help businesses grow.
Ascential continues to grow internationally. In 2022, an intuitive move saw the company invest in Berlin and Singapore-based eCommerce and analytics startups. It has proven that despite being a legacy company, it still has its ear to the ground to elevate the next generation of digital media and marketing tools.
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Company benefits
- Great learning and development opportunities
- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options
- Option to opt into the Ascential Shares Scheme
- 25 days of holiday - option to buy/ sell upto 5 days
- Pension
- Life Assurance and Income Protection
- Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance, Critical Illness and the Ascential Shares Scheme
- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme
Company values
- Creativity - We value and reward innovation, providing new products and services to our customers, and finding new ways of working within our business
- Fairness - We build strong, ethical relationships based on mutual respect and trust
- Empowerment - We trust our teams to act swiftly and independently to meet our customers’ needs
- Focus - We prioritise clarity and focus to deliver high-quality outcomes. We are content to do a few things, exceptionally well
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Leadership
Phil Thomas
(CEO)They have worked at Ascential for over 39 years in various roles, becoming the CEO in January 2024.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Ascential
- Ascential is a people-powered company We’re committed to supporting each and every person that's part of Ascential. Fairness and Empowerment are two of our core values, and we weave them through everything we do. We unite people and invite them to discover more. More about each other. More about themselves. More about the world we live in. We believe that connections are the lifeblood of progress.
- We publish an annual Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Report. This sets out our goals, commitments, and progress so far and ensures that our workforce matches the diversity of the communities we operate in.
- We conduct regular Inclusive Content Audits to ensure that the way we represent various groups in our internal and external content is fair and representative of the communities we operate in.
- We offer internships, apprenticeships and professional study support to bring people into our workplace from the start of their careers. We’re always on the lookout for curious, passionate people from every walk of life.
- We strive to create fair and inclusive recruitment processes that give everyone their best chance at success. Our recruitment teams offer training to hiring managers that keeps diversity, equity, and inclusion front of mind as they grow their teams. We also offer reasonable adjustments to our applicants, to ensure the recruitment process is accommodating for all.
- If you don't meet every single requirement, we'd still encourage you to apply. At Ascential, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so if you are excited about this role we would still like you to apply.
- We deliver Respect Training to our managers. This training is designed to equip managers with the tools, language, and frameworks required to create a workplace where our people feel valued, respected, included, and safe.
- We invest in employee groups and networks, empowering these groups to run educational events, support charities that they’re passionate about and share experiences with colleagues. These groups include Able to Thrive, Ascential Pride, Black in Business, and Empower Women's Network.
- At present, we have an almost equal gender split in our overall workforce. We’re proud to have been recognised in the Top 3 of the FTSE Women Leaders Review for Women on Boards since the launch of the rankings in 2016. We’re also listed in the Bloomberg Gender Equality Index.
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