In A Nutshell
Lead the IB’s enterprise-wide data strategy, building a high‑performing function that enables the organization to consistently generate strategic value from data.
Responsibilities
- Lead the global data strategy, setting the vision, operating model, and governance needed to build a scalable, organisation‑wide data capability.
- Drive consistent, trusted insights by defining enterprise metrics, overseeing global dashboards, and ensuring high standards of data quality, integrity, and performance.
- Advance analytics maturity, setting expectations for advanced analytics and ensuring high‑quality, actionable insight generation that informs strategic and investment decisions.
- Champion data storytelling, establishing global standards for visualisation and ensuring insights are communicated clearly and effectively to senior leaders.
- Oversee data acquisition and integration, shaping scalable data pipelines and ensuring a connected, transparent, and reliable data landscape.
- Strengthen data infrastructure and governance, prioritising platforms, safeguarding data privacy and security, and enabling self‑service analytics across the organisation.
- Build trust in data, ensuring reliability, rapid issue resolution, and strong performance across pipelines, platforms, and analytical outputs.
- Provide strategic leadership, advising senior executives, shaping organisational priorities, and fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Develop global capability, leading talent strategy, developing future data leaders, and promoting digital and data literacy across the organisation.
- Represent the organisation externally, contributing to sector thought leadership in data and analytics.
- Own budget and value delivery, ensuring strong return on investment and long‑term value creation from data initiatives.
Skillset
- Significant experience leading large-scale data and analytics transformation across complex global organizations.
- Strong senior leadership in data & analytics, able to turn complex and varied data sources into clear insights that guide executive decisions.
- Proven ability to influence and collaborate with senior stakeholders across multiple functions.
- Experienced in building, developing, and leading high-performing data and analytics teams.
- Degree in a data‑related field; postgraduate study or equivalent experience preferred.
- Understanding of the global K–12 education landscape and international curricula (e.g., IB).
- Awareness of EdTech trends, digital platforms, and emerging technologies.
- Expertise in a broad range of data and analytics technologies (e.g. SQL, Python, R, Tableau, Power BI) in global environments
- Strong skills in advanced analytics, predictive modelling, and machine learning.
- Deep knowledge of data governance, management, quality, security, and compliance.
- Strong understanding of software development practices and modern data platform architectures.
- Ability to generate meaningful insights on user behaviour, product performance, and operations.