About this role
About the Role
Our data team is bringing social media signals into WGSN's trend intelligence. TikTok is already live. Over the next year we're expanding into new verticals, including food and drink, events and culture and interiors, and adding new platforms, starting with Reddit and Instagram. Each platform tells us something different about what consumers care about.
Most of the work to launch this sits across our data scientists, data engineers, data discovery and analytics teams. As our Technical Programme Manager, you'll own the programme end to end. You'll build the plan, link the teams together and make sure everyone knows what they own and when. You'll report to our Group Chief Data Officer and have plenty of autonomy.
Beyond this launch, we're rebuilding our data platform over the next 12 to 18 months, and the role is set to grow into owning how work moves from data discovery through to production.
What You'll Do
Own the end-to-end programme plan, from new data sources through to live dashboards
Map tasks, dependencies and effort across the data team so the impact of any change is clear
Run steering committees, working groups, RAID logs, status reporting and change control
Work with product owners to bring a waterfall launch plan together with agile feature releases
Make accountability clear, flag risks early and come with options
Manage handover into business as usual with our data operations team
Help raise programme and product maturity across the data team
What We're Looking For
A track record of running technical programmes across several teams and landing launches on time
Experience running data programmes, from ingestion and pipelines through to production
Clear, direct communication that brings people with you, including senior leadership
Experience in an organisation with mature data processes
Comfortable working waterfall and agile, with a product mindset
Nice to Have
Experience with commercial data products or data as a service
Jira, Confluence and Smartsheet
PMP, PRINCE2, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Prosci or Lean/Six Sigma