Data Delivery Manager

CompanyWomen in Data®

LocationSouthampton, England, United Kingdom

Posted At1/15/2026

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Database administrators and web content technicians

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£41,700 (£21.38 per hour)

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Description

About the Role

Permanent

Up to £80,000 + Pension + PMI + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working

Southampton, Store Support Office

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Data Delivery Manager and you’ll be a big part of this.

Role Purpose: Business decisions made using data are only as good as the data itself, and customers’ expectations on how we use their data continue to grow and evolve. We’re looking for a Data Delivery Manager to deliver on our ambition to bring together data into trusted, accessible and actionable data products that fuel our business strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Owner of all data demand into B&Q data squad & Kingfisher Data teams, ensuring a single, agreed view on key deliverables to drive highest impact and key business strategies.

Build strong partnerships with leaders across multiple business functions to consult on key challenges, influence priorities, and identify where data can drive performance and efficiency

Collaborate across Data & Analytics and key business domains, to support in the development of clear data briefs with clear measures for impact and success criteria.

Lead the shift towards product-oriented, reusable data assets, ensuring existing solutions are scaled and repurposed where appropriate to avoid duplication, accelerate delivery, and drive long-term business value.

Develop & own the Data Demand Roadmap and oversee the delivery of data products across workstreams.

Identify & manage team interdependencies and ensure the roadmap is regularly reviewed and agreed to prioritise resource on the highest value deliverables

Lead the B&Q Data Squad (Data Designers, Data Engineers), managing the workflow and priorities across the squad and support in bringing together broader skillset to deliver on time and to budget.

Act as an escalation point for issues and risks that could impact agreed scope, schedule, costs or quality

Establish close work relationships with peers within Kingfisher, adopting common work practices & delivery tooling, and identifying cross functional demand to mitigate duplication and optimize resource aligned to B&Q

Embed Data Demand forums & establish practices to both collate & triage data requirements and to engage & communicate progress across key stakeholders

Champion the value of our Data Platform, Data Products and team and showcase impact in driving business strategies with senior leadership

Manage the lifecycle of our data assets and products through Product kitemarking, ensuring continued review during deliver to continued use to retirement, working closely with Governance & operations to make sure deliveries are compliant and customer centric

Embed the use of B&Q & Kingfisher data management tooling to drive efficiency in how we build and deliver our programmes of work through the Data Squad

Work with B&Q Tech & Finance Business partners to ensure effective budget planning, financial management and reporting of the overall programme or portfolio

Encourage & facilitate continuous improvement within delivery teams, whilst ensuring a level of consistency in delivery best practices adopted across workstreams

Required Skills and Experience

Proven track record of leading business change initiatives in a complex global organisation and significant experience in delivery of enterprise level Data, BI or Product solutions in relevant industries

Experience of creating high performing data squads, through matrixed management

Expert at project and programme delivery methods (incl. Agile, Waterfall and Hybrid), with significant experience in leading and communicating status, impact, etc of data programmes of work

Experience in building strong, collaborative relationships across all levels of the organisation

Highly organised and structured in approach, equally adepts at identifying opportunities as risks and mitigation strategies to ensure consistent, high quality deliveries

Good working knowledge of Data Platforms and use of Data within organisations, and understanding of governance and compliance requirements including knowledge of budgeting and financial management

Strong appreciation of process design and implementation and how to embed these within a new team/function

Strategic thinker with the ability to implement strategies through pragmatic and realistic roadmaps and actions plans

What's in it for me?

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities.

You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more!

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.

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