Insight & Reporting Director

Avidity

Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Last month

£75,000 – £95,000 pa

Applications closed

Related Jobs

View all jobs

Spotlight

AI & Data Engineer

Source Global Research London, United Kingdom

Hybrid

Systems and Data Analyst

Acis Group Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom

£35,000 – £42,200 pa

Senior Manager, Enterprise Sales Engineering

Fivetran United Kingdom

Director of Supply Chain Data Solutions- London

REM Associates Ltd Hertford, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

£150,000 – £175,000 pa On-site

Head of Enterprise Data Delivery

Amplius Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom

£80,000 pa Hybrid

Digital Insight Analyst

Datatech Berkshire, United Kingdom

Data Insight Analyst

Applause IT Recruitment Ltd Birmingham, West Midlands (county), United Kingdom

Salary

£75,000 – £95,000 pa

Seniority: Director
Posted: 8 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Save job

Create job alert

Applications closed

Insight & Reporting Director

Location:UK-based role requiring 2 days per week in our Maidenhead office

Contract: Permanent, Full Time

Salary: £75,000 - £95,000 Per Annum + Bonus

About The Role

As the Insight & Reporting Director, you will be accountable for modernising how are insights are produced and consumed externally by clients and internally, be a champion of AI-augmented analytics, and improve the analytical functionality of the entire organisation. You will define and own the organisation's Insight & Reporting strategy, be the lead presence for that externally, and align it to broader business objectives and data strategy

You will be regularly required to present to clients and internal stakeholders at Executive team and throughout the organisation, and will have ownership over the reporting and analytics function across the business, ensuring that data and AI are genuinely embedded into how decisions are made, working with a range of stakeholders.

You will be committed to ensuring all modern technologies are exploited, and are aware of developing technologies in this space, driving curiosity and ongoing learning across your teams.

You will be joining us at a critical point in our journey, to ensure that insights and reporting is a strategic capability, with a modern analytics stack, used to innovate and embed emerging technologies within our industry.

Key Responsibilities

* Create and execute the organisation's Insight & Reporting strategy, leading a team of c. 30

* Build and champion a modern, AI-enabled analytics capability.

* Act as the senior advocate for data-driven decision-making.

* Drive the adoption of self-service analytics.

* Lead the evaluation and adoption of AI and machine learning capabilities.

* Establish responsible AI governance frameworks.

* Champion the adoption of modern data platforms e.g. Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Snowflake.

* Drive the shift to dynamic, real-time analytics experiences.

* Oversee the design & development of dashboards, reports, and analytical products.

* Drive data storytelling standards and design principles across the team.

* Ensure compliance with data regulations across insight and reporting activity.

* Champion ethical data use - particularly where AI and automated decision-making are involved.

* Build and maintain strong relationships with both senior internal stakeholders and with clients.

* Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to non-technical audiences.

What We’re Looking For

* Proven experience in leading a BI, analytics, or insight function at a senior or director level, within a FMCG or strong retail background.

* In-depth understanding of modern analytics - Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Azure, Snowflake, and AI tooling.

* Experience of driving AI or machine learning adoption within a large organisation.

* Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to connect insights to measurable business outcomes.

* Excellent leadership and people development skills, with experience managing multi-disciplinary teams.

* Exceptional communication skills - able to translate between technical and business audiences at all levels.

* Experience establishing or maturing BI governance frameworks at scale.

* Demonstrated ability to influence and challenge at senior stakeholder and C-suite level.

* Hands-on background in Power BI, SQL, or data modelling is preferred.

* Ideally has experience with Microsoft Copilot Studio, Azure OpenAI, or similar generative AI tooling.

* Exposure to change management relating to data transformation programmes would be ideal.

What’s In It For You?

Competitive annual salary

Annual pay reviews

Car allowance: £575 per month (£6900 per annum)

Bonus: up to 10%

Private healthcare: Bupa

25 days holiday + flexible public holidays (with options to buy more)

Smart working policy

Family-friendly policies (enhanced maternity/paternity leave)

Company pension (5% employer contribution)

Life assurance (3x salary)

Employee perks site (discounts, gym memberships, leisure activities)

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme for physical, mental & financial wellbeing

Industry Insights

Discover insightful articles, industry insights, expert tips, and curated resources.

Apr 9, 2026

Products

Where to Advertise Data Engineering Jobs in the UK (2026 Guide)

Where to advertise data engineering jobs UK in 2026: the specialist boards and channels that reach Spark, dbt, Snowflake and platform engineering talent. Data engineers occupy a distinct discipline that sits between software engineering, data science and cloud infrastructure — and the strongest candidates identify firmly with the data engineering community rather than with adjacent roles. General job boards consistently conflate data engineering with data analysis, data science and BI development, producing high application volumes but low candidate quality for specialist pipeline and platform roles. This guide, published by DataEngineeringJobs.co.uk, covers where to advertise data engineering roles in the UK in 2026, how the main platforms compare, what employers should expect to pay, and what the data says about hiring across different role types.

Apr 5, 2026

Jobs

Data Engineering Jobs UK 2026: What to Expect Over the Next 3 Years

Data Engineering Jobs UK 2026: roles, salaries and the trends shaping UK data engineering hiring over the next three years — Spark, dbt, lakehouse and AI. Data engineering has become one of the most strategically important disciplines in the entire technology sector — and one of the most reliably in-demand. Every organisation that wants to use data to make decisions, train AI models, personalise products, manage risk, or understand its customers depends on data engineers to build the infrastructure that makes any of that possible. Without well-designed, reliable data pipelines, the most sophisticated machine learning model is worthless and the most ambitious analytics strategy is undeliverable. That foundational importance has made data engineering hiring remarkably resilient through the technology market corrections of the past few years. Where headcount reductions fell heavily on some engineering disciplines, demand for data engineers held firm — because the work of building and maintaining data infrastructure cannot be deferred in the way that some product development can. The data keeps coming. The pipelines need to work. But the data engineering jobs market of 2026 is not simply a stable version of what it was three years ago. The discipline has undergone a series of architectural shifts — from batch to streaming, from on-premise data warehouses to cloud-native lakehouses, from hand-rolled pipelines to declarative transformation frameworks, and most recently toward AI-augmented data engineering workflows that are beginning to reshape what the role looks like in practice. The employers hiring data engineers today are asking for a meaningfully different skill set than those hiring three years ago. The candidates who will thrive over the next three years are those who understand where the discipline is heading — which architectural patterns are becoming standard, which technologies are defining the modern data stack, and how the definition of a data engineering career is evolving toward a richer intersection of infrastructure, analytics, and AI enablement. This article breaks down what the UK data engineering jobs market is likely to look like through to 2028 — covering the titles emerging right now, the technologies driving employer demand, the skills that will matter most, and how to position your career ahead of the curve.

Mar 24, 2026

Jobs

New Data Engineering Employers to Watch in 2026: UK and Global Companies Driving the Data Revolution

New Data Engineering Employers to Watch in 2026: a UK and global shortlist of data platform companies hiring data engineers, pipeline and lakehouse specialists. Data engineering is at the heart of the digital economy, transforming raw data into actionable insights, powering analytics, AI systems, and cloud infrastructure. As the UK and global markets continue to invest heavily in data platforms, pipelines, and real-time analytics, demand for skilled data engineers is growing rapidly. For professionals exploring opportunities on www.DataEngineeringJobs.co.uk , the critical question is: which companies are expanding, hiring, and shaping the future of data-driven business? This article highlights new data engineering employers to watch in 2026, including UK startups, scale-ups, and international firms expanding in the UK.