Senior Insights Lead

Senior Insight Lead

• Brighton, hybrid, 2 days per week onsite
• £90,000 - £100,000 base salary
• Hybrid working, 2 days per week in Brighton
• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays & more

We're supporting a fast-scaling, international marketplace business that is investing heavily in how data is used across the company.

This is not a "more dashboards" type of role. It is a senior insight and data leadership position focused on improving the quality of commercial decision-making across customer, pricing, marketing and finance.

You'll lead the central analytics and insight capability, manage and develop a small team, and help shape how the business moves towards a more modern, AI-enabled, democratised approach to data.

The role sits at the centre of a growing hub-and-spoke data model, working closely with embedded data roles in product/platform squads while owning the central foundations: certified metrics, semantic layers, trusted insight, governance, standards and decision-support.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading and developing a team of data specialists
• Partnering with senior commercial stakeholders across customer, pricing, marketing and finance
• Turning ambiguous business questions into clear, actionable insight
• Owning trusted data foundations, including certified metrics, semantic layers and insight standards
• Supporting AI and LLM-enabled access to data, with the right guardrails in place
• Driving better data culture, stronger decision-making and sharper commercial recommendations
• Helping shape a wider data community of practice as the business scales
• We're looking for someone with:
• Strong experience across analytics, insight, decision science or applied data
• Proven experience leading, coaching and growing data teams
• Strong SQL and/or Python capability
• A good understanding of the modern data stack across analytics, engineering, insight and advanced analytics
• Commercially focused stakeholder management experience
• The ability to tell the story behind the data and influence senior decision-makers
• Experience operating across multiple internal functions with competing priorities

Bonus points for experience with:

• Semantic layers, metrics layers or LLM-over-warehouse capability
• Marketplace, e-commerce or consumer-facing businesses
• Experimentation, A/B testing or decision science in a product/commercial setting
• Helping a data team move from traditional analytics towards a more full-stack model
• Hub-and-spoke data structures or embedded data roles

Package and benefits include:

• Wellbeing day
• 5% employer pension contribution
• Private healthcare
• EAP and employee discounts
• Learning and development support
• Volunteer days
• Dog-friendly office and active social calendar

This would suit a senior data leader who enjoys being close to the business, can raise the standard of insight across multiple functions, and wants to play a key role in shaping how data works in a scaling marketplace environment.

Burns Sheehan Ltd will consider applications based only on skills and ability and will not discriminate on any grounds.