Head of Data Research

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a small team of data researchers and econometricians
• Manage demand for granular data projects including leading educational initiatives and raising awareness
• Oversee both rapid analysis and insights in response to urgent market questions, and longer term research pieces for policy teams
• Own, manage and analyse granular data sets on consumer behaviour, pricing and outcomes
• Oversee the use of sophisticated analysis techniques to assess causation, to support other ORE functions including Evaluation, competition, teams analysing distributional impacts and economic drivers within the data
• Create and maintain strong, collaborative relationships with regulatory teams

Key Outputs and Deliverables

• Analysis and maintenance of granular data sets to answer policy questions
• Insights, reports and data visualisations
• Enable access to new and valuable data sources
• Educational initiatives to increase awareness of the data insights team

Essential Criteria

• Strong leadership and management skills including empathetic, inclusive line management and teamwork (Lead Criteria)
• Strong stakeholder relationship skills including the ability to elicit, understand and act on Policy’s research priorities (Lead Criteria)
• Significant experience leading data analysis and insight, and strong technical research skills including hypothesis development, economic modelling, coding in R and/or Python, data visualisation, telling a story with data
• Track record of leading and initiating new and innovative data initiatives, demonstrating value and bringing others with you