Data Team Lead

Job Title: Data Team Lead

Location: Reigate, Surrey or hybrid as appropriate

Salary: GBP33,000 : GBP42,000 per annum, dependent on experience

Job Type: Full time, Permanent

Hours: Monday to Friday, 37.5 hrs a week, office based but some hybrid working possible

About Us

Rand Associates provides surveying services, consultancy, and software products to the social housing sector. Our clients include housing associations, local authorities, building contractors and consultants. We have offices in Reigate, Surrey and Birkenhead, Wirral.

We are part of the M3 Housing group of companies. M3 publish the M3NHF Schedule of Rates and a range of associated products used for property maintenance, including M3Central, M3Vision and M3Pamwin.

About The Role

Many of Rand Associates projects generate a significant volume of data. This includes stock condition surveys, EPC and energy surveys, M3NHF Schedule of Rates development and consultancy projects, and implementations of our asset management software, M3Vision. We have a team of Data Analysts undertaking this work. The role of the Data Manager is to manage the team of Data Analysts to undertake this work in an efficient and effective manner, helping to ensure that data provided by Rand Associates is of the highest possible quality.

Main Duties And Responsibilities

The key duties for the Data Manager are:

• Day to day management of Data Analysts, including staffing matters such as authorising annual leave and undertaking appraisals
• Set up and maintain a time:based register of all data:based activities, which will form the basis for allocation of work to Data Analysts
• Setting up, attending and chairing meetings as required
• Minuting meetings as required
• Verbal or written reporting to Head Of roles and Directors as required
• Answering ad:hoc client or analyst queries
• Assisting with the ongoing development of data validation and analysis procedures to help improve the overall quality of data
• Liaison with Project Managers to determine priorities
• Provide information in support of invoicing
• Provision of survey data to client
• Provision of necessary reports to client
• Undertake Data Analyst tasks as appropriate to support the Data Analysts
  
  

In Addition, The Data Manager May Be As To

• Attendance interviews/presentations for projects
• Assistance with bidding for projects
• Attendance at Company events as required
  
  

This job description only contains the main accountabilities relating to the role and does not describe in detail all the duties required to carry them out.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have good project management and organisational skills, and a good understanding of structured data. In particular, the Data Manager will have:

• Personable, good communication skills and a willingness to help people.
• Continuous learning and improvement.
• A can:do attitude
  
  

Essential Requirements

• A minimum of GCSE Grade C or above for English and Maths, or equivalent.
• Ability to commute to Reigate for the required hours.
• The ability to work as part of a team.
  
  

Desirable Skills

• A good knowledge of MS Excel
• A good understanding of databases and spread sheets
• A Project Management related qualification
  
  

Benefits

• 26 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Company car or car allowance
• Company pension scheme
• Christmas bonus scheme
• Performance bonuses
• Training courses available to all, led by employee aspirations.
• Chance to learn new skills, take on further responsibilities, driven by you.
  
  

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Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: Senior Data Analyst, Data Team Manager, Data Solutions Analyst, Business Insight Analyst, Data Insight Analyst, Data modelling, Statistician, Data Modelling may also be considered for this role.