Technical Product Lead - Data

Job Title: Technical Product Lead - Data
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: WBC

Salary: £55-60,000 + Bonus and Benefits

Are you passionate about using data to drive business performance and influencing stakeholders at all levels to make smarter business decisions? Working closely with Technical Product Managers, Heads of Department and senior business leaders, you'll help develop, enhance and optimise data products that provide meaningful insights and support strategic decision-making.

You'll play a key role in building trusted stakeholder relationships, aligning priorities across multiple functions and ensuring our data capabilities remain relevant, scalable and focused on delivering measurable business value.

What you'll be doing:

• Support the development of data product strategies that deliver measurable business improvements and support Whitbread's wider business objectives.

• Build strong relationships with functional Heads of Department and senior stakeholders, acting as a trusted partner to identify opportunities where data can improve efficiency, compliance and performance.

• Facilitate stakeholder engagement and alignment, balancing competing priorities and ensuring data product roadmaps reflect the most valuable business outcomes.

• Drive adoption and effectiveness of data products across the business by proactively engaging stakeholders, gathering feedback and translating evolving requirements into clear priorities.

• Influence and challenge stakeholders constructively to improve KPIs, reporting outputs and data product functionality, maximising business value.

• Define requirements for improving data quality, accuracy and reliability across reporting and decision-support tools.

• Work with Data Science teams where predictive models and advanced analytics form part of a data product.

• Support the continuous improvement of business intelligence and data product capabilities through innovation, stakeholder feedback and best practice.

• Collaborate with teams across Data & Analytics and wider business functions to maximise the value of shared tools and platforms, including Power BI and Databricks.

• Lead engineers and developers on project-based initiatives, ensuring stakeholder expectations, business objectives and technical delivery remain aligned.

• Support the development of technical skills and capabilities across the wider team through coaching, knowledge sharing and stakeholder collaboration.

• Ensure data products remain effective, cost-efficient and aligned with business priorities through ongoing stakeholder engagement and governance.

Why you'll love it here:

• Play a key role in shaping the future of data-driven decision-making across Whitbread.

• Influence senior stakeholders and drive strategic conversations that shape business priorities.

• Collaborate with stakeholders from a variety of functions and seniority levels across a complex organisation.

• Help drive innovation, efficiency and performance improvement through data.

• Be part of a growing Data & Analytics function delivering transformational change.

• Access excellent career development opportunities within one of the UK's leading hospitality businesses.

• Work with modern data platforms and technologies in a collaborative environment.

What you'll need:

• Strong understanding of business intelligence, data products and cloud-based data platforms.

• Knowledge of data structures, operational processes and reporting solutions.

• Good understanding of business strategy and how data supports organisational objectives.

• Awareness of systems architecture and core business systems.

• Understanding of data science principles and how predictive analytics can enhance business decision-making.

• Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to build credibility, influence senior leaders and challenge constructively.

• Proven ability to manage competing stakeholder demands, negotiate priorities and drive consensus across multiple business areas.

• Strong analytical, modelling and data visualisation skills using tools such as Excel, SQL and Power BI.

• Experience designing and developing BI solutions and data products.

• Strong backlog management and prioritisation skills, balancing business needs with technical considerations.

• Project management capability with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

• Ability to translate complex data into meaningful business insights and recommendations tailored to different stakeholder audiences.

• Experience working in agile delivery environments and sprint-based development models.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience designing and operating high-impact data products that support business decision-making across multiple organisational levels.

• Experience working within a large, complex or matrix organisation.

• Experience managing senior stakeholder groups and successfully delivering outcomes across multiple business functions.

• Experience leading, coaching or mentoring analysts, developers or product teams.

• Experience within a hospitality, hotel or restaurant environment.

• Experience developing new data management processes and governance approaches.

• Experience creating communications, training materials and adoption programmes that support effective use of data products.

• Knowledge of platforms such as Databricks and broader modern analytics technologies.

Bring your passion for data, product thinking and stakeholder engagement to Whitbread and help build trusted partnerships, influence decision-making and deliver data products that drive smarter business outcomes across our organisation