About the roleThe Analytics Team is spread right across the Partnership, using advanced analytics to help stakeholders solve problems and make better decisions.

This Head of Analytics role is focused on the JL Customer, WR Customer and pan-Partnership Customer teams. As a member of the wider Data, Insight and Analytics (DIandA) Leadership team you will also share collective responsibility for ensuring that business requirements are met and to mentor people managers to deliver an excellent Partner experience. You will provide thought leadership and be an ambassador for DIandA, helping to prove its value across the business.Flexible working:

This is a hybrid working role, therefore your time will primarily be split between working from home and the London/ Head Office. Our team currently works from the office at least once a week to connect and on a more ad-hoc basis to attend key meetings, but again the frequency is dependent on the business needs

.Expected Salary - £74,900 - £110,000 (depending upon experience)Contract type

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This position is an FTC for up to 12 monthsAs a Head of Analytics, you will work across various parts of the Partnership to maximise value from your team. You will be accountable for delivery, timeliness and analytical rigour of your team’s projects while also working collaboratively with stakeholders and other teams as required.Deliver maximum commercial value from your Analytics Team using relevant visualisation, diagnostic, predictive and optimisation techniques

- Increase that value over time through building capability, new techniques and influencing strategy, ensuring alignment to the Portfolio and Partnership’s priorities

- Be accountable for your team’s output in terms of timely delivery, quality, accuracy, methodology, recommendations, clarity, impact, sustainability and compliance

- Research and Insight, Data Science

- Have a good understanding of your stakeholders’ commercial strategies and goals and wider Portfolio plans

- Be proactive in identifying where analytics can add value, taking a strategic view over 3, 6 and12 months and align with stakeholders and the Planning Lead to build those opportunities into the workplan

- Work closely with other CTTO Partners to enable your team through IT infrastructure and tooling e.g. Snowflake, Dataiku, Tableau, Google

- Tableau and other enablement tools

- Lead your team, their projects and their personal development through empowerment and support

- Instil a culture of managing risk and compliance with the use of all data, to comply with legislation and JLP’s policies

- Experience of leading teams using Cloud/Python/SQL/Tableau and building their capability

- Experience working with both Research and Insight and Data Management Teams

- An understanding of external data sources.

LI-Hybrid#We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.We also recommend that you apply as soon as possible as vacancies can close early if we see a high number of applicants.We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.