Group BI & Reporting Lead

About the role

We are seeking an experienced Group BI & Reporting Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will lead the Group Reporting Engineering team and establish a Centre of Excellence for corporate and business‑critical reporting across Connells Group.

Key responsibilities

• Define and embed best practices for report engineering, semantic modelling, metric design, visual standards and release governance on the Fabric Group Data Platform.
• Own service quality, resilience and control for critical reporting products, managing incidents and data‑quality issues against agreed SLAs.
• Lead delivery of corporate and executive‑level reporting, ensuring strong data governance and strategic data storytelling.
• Own Group Reporting Designs, gold‑layer data products and semantic models.
• Promote Agile report development methodologies and ensure high‑quality reporting output.
• Support strategic projects that require tier‑1 corporate reporting and dashboard products.
• Monitor proactively, respond to escalations from IT teams and help team members transition to high‑value strategic reporting.

Required profile

• Proven people‑leadership and delivery‑leadership experience in a BI or reporting environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, able to work with senior executives and translate complex data into actionable insights.
• Experience shaping reporting strategy, data governance and metric stewardship.

Required skills

• Fabric Group Data Platform
• Semantic modelling
• Metric design
• Visual standards for reporting
• Agile report development methodologies

What we offer

• Hybrid working arrangement with at least one day per week in the Milton Keynes office.
• Competitive salary range of £65,000‑£75,000 per year.