Data Delivery Team Leader

Overall Purpose

Valpak Limited is the UK’s leading provider of environmental compliance and data management services in the UK and internationally. Through working with major retailers and brand holders Valpak has developed a vast database known as Environmental Product Information Centre (EPIC) that holds one of the UK’s largest product and packaging data sets.

The Data Delivery Team Leader will lead a team to ensure EPIC data is accurate and can be used to support Valpak and our clients with trend analysis and insight into packaging and products put on to the market. The Data Delivery Team Leader will work to identify trends, improve accuracy and utilise the data to improve knowledge within the sector.

Key accountabilities

Manage supplier engagement, data processing, data quality, operational data administrators and India Liaison teams:

• Manage the teams to ensure they are working efficiently and collaboratively.
• Ensure teams work closely and provide feedback to each other, to adjust, improve and evaluate the processes being used

Lead a team

• Motivate the team to achieve productivity and efficiencies
• Utilise resource to ensure data accuracy and deliver reporting
• Foster a culture of continuous improvement

Ensure data integrity and maximise use of the database

• Investigate new ways of error reporting
• Educate the broader department to ensure accurate data is entered as part of operational processes
• Work with Consulting to deliver project data e.g. Packflow
• Support sector reporting e.g. benchmarking/forecasting

Ensure EPIC and reporting capabilities are fit for current and future business needs

• Work alongside Systems Team and Application Support Manager to identify EPIC/data improvements
• Ensure EPIC data capability is fit for business need
• Ensure the enrichment team follows business processes and supports the operational teams in their submission and customer requests

Expand scope of database

• Identify new data collection opportunities e.g. nutritional information, barcodes, polymer etc.
• Work cross functionally to increase use of EPIC data beyond compliance
• Work with Valpak’s Economist and the Consulting department to investigate sectors to find product or packaging trends
• Develop internal and customer reports to present data in easily consumable way to show key insights from the data

Be a subject matter expert in the database and how it interacts with other systems( i.e. Supplier Data Hub and Product Data Hub)

• Work with the development team and technical lead. To collaboratively design the system.
• Be able to translate the regulations into Database and Supplier Data Hub

Requirements

• Advanced Excel skills
• Experience of manipulating and reporting on large data sets
• Strong analytical skills
• Great attention to detail
• Some management experience is desirable
• Educated to degree level or equivalent

Benefits

• Hybrid working available, happy to talk flexible working
• Up to 10% bonus
• Enhanced holiday scheme (option to buy/sell up to 10 days) and long service awards
• Critical illness, Life assurance & disability income protection
• Option to join private medical insurance, subsidised gym membership, and bike to work scheme
• Contributory pension scheme
• Wellbeing initiatives and support including Wellbeing App access
• MyPerks discounts platform

We reserve the right to bring forward the closing date of our job vacancies if we receive a suitable number of high-quality applications from which to make a shortlist. We recommend that you apply for our roles as soon as possible rather than wait until the published closing date