Data Delivery Lead: Strategy & Planning Excellence

Company: Jobtailor
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Location: London
Job Description:

• Own planning, prioritisation, and sequencing across the Data & AI team.• Apply a deep understanding of data work, skills, and technical dependencies to shape realistic delivery plans and roadmaps.• Support senior decision-making by clearly articulating options, trade-offs, and delivery implications.• Stay close to delivery to identify risks, dependencies, and opportunities early.• Challenge and support teams on scope, sequencing, and approaches to solving delivery problems.• Use delivery insight to improve focus, flow, and outcomes across teams.• Define and use delivery metrics to track progress, predictability, and outcomes across the portfolio.• Ensure appropriate governance, transparency, and documentation of delivery decisions to meet audit and compliance expectations.• Act as a trusted delivery partner to Data & AI leaders and business stakeholders.

Requirements

  • Proven experience in delivery planning or coordination in a data-led environment.
  • Strong understanding of data disciplines such as data science, ML, advanced analytics, and analytics engineering.
  • Ability to understand and map technical dependencies across complex teams.
  • Comfortable contributing to delivery discussions at both the detail and portfolio level.
  • Skilled in working with cross-functional teams to shape, plan, and track delivery.
  • Clear communicator, able to bring structure to complexity and support decision-making.
  • Familiarity with agile practices, lean planning, or flow-based delivery.
  • Experience improving planning practices or delivery coordination across multiple teams.
  • Knowledge of delivery governance, performance metrics, or planning tools.

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Hard Skills

  • delivery planning
  • data science
  • machine learning
  • advanced analytics
  • analytics engineering
  • delivery metrics
  • governance
  • performance metrics
  • planning tools
  • technical dependencies

Soft Skills

  • clear communication
  • decision-making support
  • problem-solving
  • cross-functional collaboration
  • risk identification
  • prioritization
  • articulating options
  • structuring complexity
  • supporting teams
  • improving focus

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Posted: July 13th, 2026