Data Manager - FTC

Data Manager

Location:

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom.

The Data Manager will oversee the management of price and promotion data feeds on a daily basis for one of the UK largest grocery retailers. Embedded at the retailer’s HQ, the role involves building and maintaining strong relationships with third‑party suppliers and internal stakeholders while ensuring data is managed, analysed and delivered efficiently.

• Manage large data sets from multiple sources, ensuring data is consistently processed and loaded into systems.
• Monitor the quality and accuracy of data, performing validation checks regularly.
• Track changes in retailer price and promotion policies, ensuring data reflects the latest updates.
• Resolve data queries and implement process improvements to enhance data management.
• Lead the automation of processes and continuously refine data handling workflows.
• Analyse data sets to support business insights and facilitate understanding of trends and key metrics.
• Collaborate with data providers and internal teams at the grocery retailer to enhance services and identify areas requiring additional data collection.
• Conduct ad‑hoc data analysis as needed.
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders and external suppliers to ensure smooth data operations.

• Proven experience working with large datasets, including the ability to analyse and interpret complex data effectively.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
  , with hands‑on experience working with APIs, Excel, and database management systems.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate trends and insights derived from large datasets to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• A proactive mindset with a keen ability to identify patterns, trends, and opportunities within data.
• A natural curiosity and enthusiasm for staying informed about industry topics, trends, and advancements.

Work arrangement:
We encourage face‑to‑face collaboration, with three or more days a week in the office or at an Informa event, and flexible remote options for the remainder of the week.

Our benefits include:

• Great community: a welcoming culture with in‑person and online social events, a charity day, and active diversity and inclusion networks.
• Broader impact: up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available.
• Career opportunity: bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms, and access to thousands of courses on Linked In Learning. We encourage internal job moves when the time is right.
• Time out: 25 days annual leave (27 after two years), a birthday leave day, and the chance to work from anywhere for up to four weeks a year.
• A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company‑funded private medical cover.
• A Share Match scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares.
• Strong wellbeing support via EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, and access to health apps.
• Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes.
• As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world.

We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.

If you would like to request reasonable adjustments or accommodations to assist your participation in the hiring process or in the advertised position, please inform the appropriate Talent Acquisition Partner once they have been in touch. Your request will be reviewed in confidence. As part of our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. We base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics or statuses.

• Seniority level:
  Associate
• Employment type:
  
  Full‑time
• Industry: Events Services

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