Data Enabled Change Advisor

Job Title: Data Enabled Change Advisor

Location: Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,000 + depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Be responsible for ensuring existing data products such as dashboards are adopted, and that this adoption leads to business change and value
• Gathering information about as-is data products provisioned in BAE Systems including intended consumers and purpose
• Engaging with local data leads and the Benefits Reporting Lead to understand data product adoption and business value, and any shortfall from expectation / potential
• Supporting local data leads to define data products that will address business needs and deliver value
• Engaging with delivery and consumer teams to improve shared data products / capabilities and their use
• Working to good practice and recommend improvements to relevant IM&T analytics processes, policies and standards
  
  

Your Skills And Experiences

• Knowledge of what analytics (including advanced analytics concepts such as machine learning) is and how it can add value
• Understands concepts in data exploitation with key focus on associated business change
• Relevant vocational qualification or equivalent experience (e.g. computer science, information systems, or a related study.)
• Understands concepts in service provision and management
• Proven experience of working with stakeholders to engage, influence and advise on how data should be used within the business
  
  

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Team

The role of the Data Centre of Expertise within Head Office is to enable and govern our use of data across BAE Systems, from data management and architecture to exploitation. Within that context the Data Exploitation team works to drive greater impact from our use of data, by exploiting more of it, by increasing the sophistication of that exploitation, and by working with data consumers to maximise the value to our operations from use of data products. Whilst this isn’t a hands on Data Analyst role, you will be part of a new and growing team, and this role will bring renewed focus to a critical aspect of our scope.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 31st May 2024

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.