Head of Data & Analytics

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Description

Do you want to work to make Power for Good?

We're the world's largest independent renewable energy company. We're guided by a simple yet powerful vision: to create a future where everyone has access to affordable, zero carbon energy.

We know that achieving our ambitions would be impossible without our people. Because we're tackling some of the world's toughest problems, we need the very best people to help us. They're our most important asset so that's why we continually invest in them.

RES is a family with a diverse workforce, and we are dedicated to the personal professional growth of our people, no matter what stage of their career they're at. We can promise you rewarding work which makes a real impact, the chance to learn from inspiring colleagues from across a growing, global network and opportunities to grow personally and professionally.

Our competitive package offers a wide range of benefits and rewards.

Job Purpose

This role will manage the global Data & Analytics team to provide performance analysis, data science, and data management services to our Asset Management and O&M businesses, as well as directly to external customers. The individual will need to ensure the services are robust, high quality, responsive, cost efficient, and scalable.

Organisational Context

The role reports to the Global Director of Operational Support & Innovation within the global Services business. The individual will work closely with P&L technology leaders, regional leads and support functions.

Key Accountabilities

• Understand what excellence looks like in the eyes of our customers as well as our internal Asset Management and O&M teams, set common metrics and targets to measure excellence, and drive the team to meet targets
• Build and manage a globally distributed team to deliver Data & Analytics services with a consistent culture of quality and excellence
• Put in place an effective system of governance to ensure quality and consistency in service delivery
• Set and manage the budget to deliver a cost-effective service
• Drive standardisation and alignment between teams in different countries
• Create a strategy to steer and prioritise the evolution of the services through a process of Continuous Improvement as well as identifying and enacting step-changes in service delivery
• Raise the profile of Data & Analytics services internally and externally in liaison with Marketing, Comms, and Business Development teams to drive growth of the business
• Work with the AM and O&M teams to develop and deliver new services
• Create and maintain service and cost books and assist with responding to customers' requests for proposals
• Liaise with Digital Solutions to ensure their products meet the needs of the business and our service offerings are aligned
• Prepare regular reports for the OS&I and Services management team, including a set of relevant KPIs

Knowledge & Skills

• High level technical knowledge and understanding of power generation and storage technologies
• Displays high operational and commercial understanding and change management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills that are delivered appropriately to different audiences
• Commercial & operational understanding in renewable energy
• Business & financial management
• English speaker, Spanish would be a plus
• Demonstrable competency in setting up teams with successful operational results
• Able to inspire, lead and motivate high performing multi-disciplinary global teams
• Strategic acumen and strong results and execution orientation
• Able to drive change through an organisation
• Collaborative approach
• Able to balance need for speed with desire to take holistic approach and bring people on board
• Agile in a rapidly changing market and comfortable taking calculated risks
• Engenders alignment, sets and communicates clear priorities and meet deadlines

Experience

• Experience of working across borders and cultures
• Experienced in leading organisational change, motivating and inspiring staff
• Experience of working in the renewable energy sector

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree
• Master's degree would be a plus

At RES we celebrate difference as we know it makes our company a great place to work. Encouraging applicants with different backgrounds, ideas and points of view, we create teams who work together to solve complex problems and design practical solutions for our clients. Our multiple perspectives come from many sources including the diverse ethnicity, culture, gender, nationality, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, disability, marital status, parental status, education, social background and life experience of our people.

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