Head of Data Delivery - FTC in London/Hybrid - National Employment Savings Trust (NEST)

London/Hybrid

£82,000 to £88,000 (depending on experience)

Fixed Term

18 months

37.5 Working Hours - (Flexible)

20 Nov 2025

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Role Overview

Are you a dynamic, action orientated leader who can head a cross-functional squad dedicated to driving data change with our key external partner? We are looking for a Head of Data Delivery on an 18 months Fixed Term Contract. This role is pivotal in modernising our data infrastructure. You will build scalable, secure, and future-proof suite of data solutions. Your work will enable analytics, and foster a data-enabled culture across Nest.

You will work closely with our key external partner; and lead an multi-disciplinary squad responsible for delivering across the Data & Insight space. Outputs include a new, useable, modern Data Platform; and the development of a Joint Data Team. Your squad will include skills of data engineering, modelling and analytics, digital analytics and data platform best practice.

The Head of Data Delivery will help build the squad, and organise the project. You will make links between the project, technology, with what it means for everyday users. You will represent as a technical subject matter expert in decision making.

Are you an organised problem solver, who can engage external partners, and thinks creatively about how to build and deliver data solutions? If yes, please apply. Your work will enable Nest’s Strategy: to help our members achieve financial peace of mind.

The minimum criteria for this role are:

-Supplier Management and Project Delivery Skills
-Has proven knowledge and experience in building and delivering data / data platform solutions. A recognised specialist and adviser in these skills, including user needs, generation of ideas, methods, tools and leading or guiding others in best practice use in Data Platforming and use.
-Experience of managing internal / external supplier relationships, to deliver data solutions.
-Holds a deep knowledge of best practice and new capabilities in the data profession.
-Strong stakeholder management skills, ability to influence and garner support from both peers and senior stakeholders
-Experience of prioritisation between multiple teams and demands
-Extensive knowledge of data delivery requirements
-Experience Leading Teams
-Experience in coaching others and leading a team of technical subject matter experts.
-Experience integrating internal and external teams.
-Experience leading complex, multidisciplinary projects, requiring delegation of work and the review of others' work product.
-Can contribute to the assessment of other teams, providing guidance and support as necessary.

Don't worry if you think you don't have all the key skills, it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we're good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Please download a full job description to find a full scope, deliverables, experience and personal attributes required for this role.

Flexible and agile working

Everyone's personal situation is different.

To make the most out of hybrid working, we've introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office, once - twice a week, or more, as required)
reduce or vary working hours
reduce or vary the days worked
work compressed hours
job share

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Directorate/Department Overview

Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making. The Data, Analytics & Customer Insight (DACI) Team is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work, and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.  

The department includes: 

Analytics – taking data and creating value for the organisation, understanding our customer and our business; doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling to help Nest make decisions. This team comprises of a modelling function and a customer behaviour analytics function.

Business Intelligence – delivering data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand.

Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart, understanding their needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight.

Data – planning and delivering how we manage high quality data as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated.

If you love data and insight, and you’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.

Organisational Overview

Nest is an award-winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country.

Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first-class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio economic background.

We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme.

We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications.

If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments please contact [email protected].

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