Data and Insights Team Lead

Founded in 2018, Smartwyre is a venture-financed SaaS business delivering enterprise software to large agricultural businesses, operating in a $400 billion global industry. With an estimated 5 million farmers and over 5,000 distributors globally, Smartwyre works across the agricultural supply chain, from large corporations to local farms. Presently, we work from the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, and South America.

We are building a B2B SaaS platform to network together the commercial operations of the companies that supply the world's farmers with seeds, fertilizer, chemicals, and services, with their target markets being the United States, Europe, and LatinAmerica. Weaim to first offer SaaS applications to solve key commercial pain points (pricing, costing, quoting), then network these companies using a common data platform (transactional data exchange, product information publication, people networking, and user analytics), and finally empower the network to facilitate new business model amongst network participants.

We are seeking an innovation focused Data and Insights Lead to oversee our team focused on rapid prototyping of business insights and customer-funded custom report development. This role is crucial in driving our distinctive approach to data visualization, reporting, providing insights, and moving us towards a future of faster delivery, enhanced self-service capabilities, and superior data accuracy.

• Champion innovative approaches to developing data visualizations and actively challenge traditional methods and approaches
• Lead and mentor the team of 5 analysts located in the UK and the Philippines, fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment
• Balance best practices in data quality, accuracy, and report design with team throughput and productivity
• Act as a primary interface between the US-based Product Manager, the UK-based Data Team, and the UK/Philippines based analysts to ensure seamless communication and alignment on reporting needs and data availability
• Drive the team's evolution away from legacy tools and basic relational databases towards modern data synchronization, processing, development, and storage solutions
• Drive solutions that facilitate customer self-service and improved experience via improved UX, processes, and technology
• Collaborate with data development teams and reporting analysts to minimize lag in data synchronization with primary data sources
• Interact with customers as needed to facilitate rapid prototyping of business insights and customer-funded custom reports
• Engage with the development of visualizations, reports, database structures and views in a hands-on way
• Address inefficiencies in existing data structures that feed our reporting via development of reusable views and models.

• Experience using Snowflake
• Experience creating reports in PowerBI
• Experience with Relational databases
• Experience using Jira or other work tracking system
• High emotional IQ
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders
• High organisation skills
• Strong desire to be involved in problem solving
• Willing to engage directly in a hands-on and collaborative way
• Experience with at least one modern visualization tool other than PowerBI E.g., Sigma)
• Advanced Analytics Predictive Analytics for Insights)
• AI tools for Data visualization
• Olap Online Analytical Platform)

Private Health (UK - BUPA) / Competitive Health Insurance (US)

Short Term / Long Term Disability Cover (US)

Critical Illness and Income Protection (UK)

Self-directed PTO

Flexible Work Location

Flexible Hours

The pay range for this role is:

75,000 - 85,000 GBP per year (Remote (United Kingdom