Company Description
This role is based in central London, UK
Informa Festivals marks an exciting new chapter in B2B events, bringing some of the world's most influential creative, technology and business festivals together. We’re combining prestigious brands like Cannes Lions, Black Hat, Money20/20 and London Tech Week with cutting-edge marketing intelligence platforms and advisory services to deliver unmissable experiences and insights.
Our festival-led approach reimagines traditional B2B events, creating powerful, immersive experiences that drive innovation and industry advancement. Building on decades of expertise and powered by Informa's international reach, we're shaping the next generation of business festivals.
We’re part of Informa, a global business with a network of trusted brands in specialist markets across more than 30 countries, and a member of the FTSE 100 who are #3 in Glassdoor's Best Places to Work 2025 UK list.
Job Description
We're looking for a Head of Data to join our team in London as part of our Data Science function.
Your Role:
You will run our newly created ‘Data department of Excellence’. Acuity Pricing webscrapes millions of lines of data every day, processes them through our proprietary algorithms and AI interfaces and delivers these in a user friendly way to our end users- market leading UK brands and retailers. Reporting to the MD and working alongside the product team, the new Head of Data will be responsible for owning this data, creating new dashboards and visualizations to help quality control, tell data stories and spot and analyse trends. Finding new and exciting ways to productise our data. In this new role it is important to be a self starter, naturally curious and be able to build a data strategy and prioritisation in order to consistently add value.
As our Head of Data, you'll:
- Own our data journey from acquisition to visualization, ensuring top-notch quality and integrity
- Craft and drive strategies to continually enhance our data processes
- Collaborate with our AI Lead and Catalogue Manager to boost efficiencies using AI tools
- Create compelling data visualizations that tell powerful stories
- Spot trends and develop meaningful retail insights with our analysts and content writers
- Explore innovative ways to add value for our clients through new data products and services
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion in all aspects of your work
Qualifications
- Proven success in leading data teams and driving data-centric projects
- Expertise with data tools like SQL, Python, and Power BI or Tableau
- Advanced Excel skills that make spreadsheets sing
- A knack for turning complex data into clear, actionable stories
- Natural curiosity and a drive to understand the market deeply
- Strong collaborative skills to bring out the best in your team and foster their development
- A passion for diversity and inclusion in the workplace
Additional Information
We work hard to make sure Life at Informa is rewarding, supportive and enjoyable for everyone. Here’s some of what you can expect when you join us. But don’t just take our word for it – see what our colleagues have to say LifeAt.Informa.com
Our benefits include:
- Freedom & flexibility: colleagues rate us highly for the flexibility and trust they receive and most of us balance time in the office with time working remotely
- Great community: a welcoming culture with in-person and online social events, our fantastic Walk the World charity day and active diversity and inclusion networks
- Broader impact: take up to four days per year to volunteer, with charity match funding available too
- Career opportunity: the opportunity to develop your career with bespoke training and learning, mentoring platforms and on-demand access to thousands of courses on LinkedIn Learning. When it’s time for the next step, we encourage and support internal job moves
- Time out: 25 days annual leave, rising to 27 days after two years, plus a birthday leave day and the chance to work from (almost!) anywhere for up to four weeks a year
- A flexible range of personal benefits to choose from, plus company funded private medical cover
- A ShareMatch scheme that allows you to become an Informa shareholder with free matching shares
- Strong wellbeing support through EAP assistance, mental health first aiders, a healthy living subsidy, access to health apps and more
- Recognition for great work, with global awards and kudos programmes
- As an international company, the chance to collaborate with teams around the world
We’re not solely focused on a checklist of skills. We champion energy and ambition and look for colleagues who will roll their sleeves up, join in and help make things happen. If it sounds like a match and you have most – although not all – of the skills and experience listed, we welcome your application.
At Informa, you'll find inclusive experiences and environments where all perspectives and backgrounds are welcomed. As part of this approach and our diversity and inclusion commitments, we are also formally an Equal Opportunities Employer. This means we base decisions on relevant qualifications and merit and do not discriminate on the basis of key characteristics and statuses, including all of those protected by law. Ask us or see our website for full information.
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