Senior Data Consultant

About the role

Help shape how data drives the business
Join a global team based across the UK and Germany, acting as the key interface between business demand and data delivery in North America.
The role works closely with Technology Sourcing (GTS), supporting a fast-paced, customer-focused organization that delivers IT solutions and services at scale.

What you'll be doing

• Shape data demand at source
• Lead the definition of complex business and data requirements, working with GTS North America stakeholders to shape clear, outcome-driven demand
• Translate strategy into delivery
• Turn business needs into clear, prioritized user stories and backlog items for delivery teams
• Drive prioritization and alignment
• Guide backlog priorities, balancing near-term needs with long-term strategic goals
• Lead refinement and delivery readiness
• Lead backlog refinement sessions to ensure user stories are clear, actionable and aligned to measurable outcomes
• Connect data to business outcomes
• Map business processes and identify where data can improve efficiency, performance and decision-making
• Bring structure to a growing region
• Help establish consistent ways of working across North America while aligning with global standards
• Embed data governance and best practice
• Ensure documentation is clear, consistent and traceable, supporting governance, transparency and effective delivery across the lifecycle
• Manage risk across demand and delivery
• Identify and manage risks across the data demand pipeline, ensuring issues are surfaced early and managed effectively with stakeholders
• Support and influence across teams
• Work closely with Engagement Leads, Strategic Directors and GIS teams to align demand and delivery
• Mentor and develop others
• Support Data Consultants and help raise the overall capability of the function

What you have

• Strong experience in business analysis or data consulting, working with senior stakeholders
• Ability to translate complex business problems into clear, prioritized requirements and user stories
• Proven ability to lead through influence and drive consensus across competing priorities
• Experience working in a B2B, customer-facing or sales-led environment
• Comfortable engaging across:
• Commercial teams
• Operational stakeholders
• Technical delivery teams
• Strong understanding of:
• Data governance
• Data quality
• Data management principles
• Experience working with:
• Multiple data sources
• C业evolving demand
• Structured delivery frameworks (for example ITOM or ITIL)
• Confident communicator, able to influence, challenge and drive alignment
• Legally authorized to work in the United States