Data Enablement Lead

Specsavers; Sunderland; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading vision and hearing service provider in the UK seeks a Data Enablement Lead to drive innovative data usage across the business. You'll collaborate with stakeholders, mentor colleagues, and drive operational improvements through data insights. The ideal candidate will lead initiatives that challenge conventional practices, promoting a data-driven culture and ensuring data platforms are essential to operations. This role offers autonomy to make impactful decisions that enhance business effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Experience in data management and analytics.
• Strong leadership and mentoring abilities.
• Ability to collaborate with diverse teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive improvement in operational outcomes through data.
• Mentor colleagues in optimal data usage.
• Challenge established practices and innovate.

Job description

At Specsavers, we’re here to change lives through better sight and hearing. We deliver outstanding value, aim to be loved by every customer, and create a workplace where colleagues are proud to belong. As we grow, we need a Data Enablement Lead who can help us unlock the full potential of data across the business

Shape How We Work

As Data Enablement Lead, you’ll work closely with stakeholders across all business functions, building trusted relationships and understanding their challenges with using data to drive operational outcomes. Together, you’ll review current practices and co-create smarter, more effective approaches to using data in daily operations. You will work alongside other Enablement Leads focused on Analytics and on Data Learning – your role will be focused on cracking open smarter and more automated uses of operational data.

Lead and Innovate

This is your opportunity to lead from the front, driving discovery of new ways data can improve our operations and championing best practices right across the business. You’ll mentor and support colleagues as they adopt pioneering approaches to data use, helping them build confidence and capability. Your influence will help Specsavers innovate, ensuring our data platforms are not just available and adopted, but become core to how we operate.

Make a Visible Impact

You’ll have the autonomy to drive initiatives, challenge established ways of working and make a tangible difference to how our business runs day to day. Your curiosity, collaborative spirit, and drive for improvement will be key to your success. Your leadership will empower colleagues to use data optimally, making more informed decisions every day. You’ll give teams the confidence to take ownership of their data journey, driving improvements that matter.