Location: Hub based! Bristol, London or Glasgow

But you have the flexibility to work wherever suits you best

Team: Performance and Insight 

Salary banding: £45k -£71k

Experience: 1-3  years in similar role, with broad experience of team working and cross functional engagement

Working pattern:Full-Time

Reporting to: Senior Manager Data Governance and Infrastructure

Sponsorship: Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship for this role.

This role in 3 words:  Architect, Champion, Standards

Top 3 qualities for this role: Supporting, improving, proactive

Everyone belongs at OVO

At OVO, we are on a mission to solve one of humanity's biggest challenges, the climate crisis. And we know it takes all of us to change the world. That's why we need diverse people from all gender identities, ethnicities, ages, sexual orientations, life experiences and backgrounds to join us.

Teamworking for the planet

Everything we do here spins around Plan Zero. So, naturally, the team you’ll be joining plays a gigantic role in making that happen. Here’s how:

• The Performance and Insight team exists to provide greater understanding of our operational performance, improve the accuracy and accessibility of data, and adapt quickly to our changing operational and technical environment. We handle complex and challenging issues and projects, embed a culture of continuous improvement, and enable the business’ strategic transformation.
• Through great Data Governance -we make it easier to find and understand our performance data by implementing great data governance ensuring that data is managed systematically so it can be used efficiently, securely, and is accessible to those who need it.
• Easier to understand performance data - we create simple to understand MI against a set of visual standards, we work with each part of our business to educate our teams on how to spend the least amount of time finding the data vs investing their time in making the right decisions based on what the data tell us
• Understanding the work - we have a complex business and we architect MI to bring to light how we perform end-to-end showing what are the key drivers of work and where bottlenecks exist in the system.
• Innovation and collaboration - as well as making sure we create the best MI today we are looking forward to tomorrow to look at new ways to automate our reporting and embed AI as a way to help our stakeholders identify where their focus should be

We’re hiring world class change leaders. Each role that we are hiring plays their own part in our mission; our role is to become the best in class energy provider, creating effortless customer experience built on trust and getting things right, first time. We do this through finding and working on the problems that matter most to our customers and employees. 

This role in a nutshell:

An exciting opportunity in this new role you’ll be supporting teams across Enterprise MI in defining and rolling out standards covering the data we use, ensuring we access and use our data to drive insight and decision making though great governance and stewardship processes.  You’ll support understanding what data answers our questions and helping ensure great lineage, quality and ownership is in place. You'll be working as a key link between our analysts and product engineers to ensure sources of data are created and managed. 

Extremely exciting opportunity to work across a major, progressive utilities business building up a network of allies to identify the gold standards in our data. A chance to take a proactive role on improving the ways we work with and ingest data within Operations. Within this role you will get to marry your skills in analytics and data management to drive solutions to our biggest data and insight gaps and problems, creating best in class service for our customers.

Your key outputs will be:

• Determines how Operations collects and processes existing data, creates processes that allow stakeholders to interact with the data aligned to established OVO frameworks.
• Sets standards for visualisation for MI for the best consistent user experience
• Manages the processes that measure analytics and data maturity across the team, relating to the OVO data toolset.
• Work with product engineers and data teams to understand data models and flows so we can make best use of data and get key data requirements delivered as part of product requirements
• Helping create processes for how to collect data, how to store and share between tools within Opera
• Support our data analysts to ensure standards are met for maintaining DataHub, Github and Dataform
• Work with teams across Operations to migrate data into Dataform and a single Google BigQuery instance
• Embed a sense of ownership and excellence for data across Operation supporting regular sessions as the technical expert for the team to drive adoption and engagement
• Identify the most pressing data problems to focus on, and support data owners and producers to find the best ways to resolve these
• Investigate and if needed look to utilise Monte Carlo for data monitoring and alerting
• Connect with wider teams across the organisation to support Enterprise wide mindset 
• Engaging with the wider business and analytics community to understand then support data enablement in the team.
• Seeking best practice in the management and enablement of data to help inform next steps in our journey.
• Supporting our teams and their data needs and producing your own insight
• Identify ways we can improve our data sets and creating plans to deliver these
• Ownership of Acryl DataHub for Enterprise MI working with the teams to ensure records are updated and accurate
• Work with product engineers and data teams to understand data models and flows so we can make best use of data and get key data requirements delivered as part of product requirements
• Ensure all knowledge is available, well documented and shared across Enterprise MI
• Embed a sense of ownership and excellence for data across the team holding regular sessions on the subject to drive engagement
• Define  methods of measuring the compliance of data with best practice
• Take an iterative approach to rolling out change; starting small, delivering quickly, evaluating the process, and finding ways to refine and improve.

You’ll be a successful Data Governance and Standards Lead at OVO if you…

• Are comfortable in the world of data governance and stewardship Whether it’s engaging with a team of analysts to drive data governance or working with others across OVO to align data sets to answer single problems, you’ll be at the forefront for our team.

Passionate about data and getting things done right for our customers. Proactively searching and discovering new opportunities to improve the quality, observability and connectivity of our data, creatively thinking of ways to support our insight.Love solving complex data problems and making a difference through collaboration. Bringing the right skills together to create stable dataflows. Applying the appropriate tools and methods to reach the best outcome and deliver the highest value impact for our customers and business.Are keen to develop your own skills and ways of working. We want to help enhance your skills whilst working here, and you’ll have time to do this. We also run community engagement events, mentoring/coaching and there are ample opportunities for peer to peer and self led learning based around our career frameworks.

You won’t like this role if you…

• Not previously worked in a data governance or stewardship role
• Not comfortable with ambiguity and fast pace change
• Are not open to new ways of working, adapting and merging of multiple methodologies
• Are not constantly thinking about ways to improve or challenge the status quo
• Are not passionate about contributing to our fight towards zero carbon living
• Are not able to work in a cross-functional team to understand a problem and get consensus on what needs to be done

Elevator pitch

In the words of the team, you should leave your current role for this one because….

“If you always wanted to be in a role where you support the whole company to understand performance through reporting and insight whilst being able to explore your own curiosity to improve for customers - this is the place to come!”

Let’s talk about what’s in it for you

We’ll pay you between £  depending on your specific skills and experience. If your expectations are a little different, have a chat with us!

We keep our pay ranges broad on purpose to give us, and you, flexibility to match your experience to our zero carbon mission.

You’ll be eligible for an on-target bonus of 15%. We have one OVO bonus plan that focuses on the collective performance of our people to deliver our Plan Zero goal. 

We also offer plenty of green benefits and progressive policies to help you feel like you belong at OVO…and there’s flex pay.  It’s an extra 9% of your salary on top of your core pay to use as you like. You can take it as cash, add to your pension, or choose to spend it on a huge range of flex benefits. Here’s a taster of what’s on offer: 

For starters, you’ll get 34 days of holiday (including bank holidays). For your healthWith benefits like a healthcare cash plan or private medical insurance depending on your career level, critical illness cover, life assurance, health assessments, and moreFor your wellbeingWith gym membership, gadget, travel and cyber insurance, workplace ISA, will writing services, DNA testing, dental insurance, and more For your lifestyle With extra holiday buying, discount dining, culture cards, tech loans, and supporting your favourite charities with give-as-you-earn donationsFor your home  Get up to £300 off any OVO Energy plan (when you pay by Direct Debit), plus personal carbon offsetting and great discounts on smart thermostats and EV chargersFor your commute Nab a great deal on ultra-low emission car leasing, plus our cycle to work scheme and public transport season ticket loans Want to hear about our full range of flexible benefits and progressive people policies? Our People Team can tell you everything you need to know.

For your Belonging

To find better ways to support our people, we need to listen to each other’s experiences and find ways to build a truly inclusive and diverse workplace. As part of this, we have 8 Belonging Networks at OVO. Led by our people, for our people - so when you join OVO, you can play a part - big or small - with any of the Networks. It's up to you.

Oh, and one last thing...

We’d be thrilled if you tick off all our boxes yet we also believe it’s just as important we tick off all of yours. And if you think you have most of what we’re looking for but not every single thing, go ahead and hit apply. We’d still love to hear from you!

If you have any additional requirements, there’s a space to let us know on the application form; we want to make the process as easy and comfortable for you as possible..