DataIQ Future Leaders recognises individuals working in data and analytics who are on an upward career trajectory to become the next cohort of senior data leaders. Already leading teams and reporting to a CDO or CDAO, they are data professionals who are shaping the future of this industry.
Categories and selection criteria explained here.
DataIQ Future Leaders recognises individuals working in data and analytics who are on an upward career trajectory to become the next cohort of senior data leaders. Already leading teams and reporting to a CDO or CDAO, they are data professionals who are shaping the future of this industry.
Categories and selection criteria explained here.
Describe your career to date
After studying chemistry at the University of Nottingham, I joined Jaguar Land Rover as a graduate in the newly formed analytics team. I was part of the first cohort of analytics grads and had some incredible opportunities working on a variety of projects, learning about different areas of the business, and setting up the first analytics and data community.
Putting the foundations in place, building an analytics portal and community forum, running cross functional networking events, and the first iteration of a power user training programme. All things that we still do today.
A milestone project for me was leading the migration to Tableau Online and roll out as an enterprise tool. Defining how a platform could be used to enable and encourage collaboration across the organisation and supporting over 3,000 creators to migrate their own content.
In 2021, I was one of the founding members of JLR’s first data office and built up the data adoption and enablement team within that. Since then, we’ve expanded our focus to establish a broader data training strategy, grown the data community and are helping the business to transform and deliver value from data.
Tell us about the data and analytics resources you are responsible for
I work in our data adoption and enablement team, we’re a team of five focused on maximising the value our end users can achieve using data. We lead on data training programmes, building the data community and run events to support and embed a data culture. I manage our relationship with vendors such as Tableau and our internal data platform team to ensure data tools have the right enablement and support in place for successful adoption.
Most recently this included managing our engagement with Tableau professional services to deliver six-week adoption campaigns across the business; from securing sponsorship for data skills to upskilling over 5,000 colleagues across the business.
Tell us about any ambitions you have in terms of becoming a data leader
Currently I’m excited about building on the work we’ve done focusing on data visualisation and Tableau to expand to represent the broader data landscape; taking advantage of the community that are excited and eager to work with data and inspiring them to improve the management, quality, and maturity of our data. As we mature as an organisation, the opportunities build and I am so inspired to see the successes that my colleagues are having on their own data journeys.
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