About Inchcape Shipping Services
At Inchcape, our vision is to have a connected world, in which our customers trade successfully and make better decisions in every port, everywhere. We use technology and our global network to help our partners connect to a smoother, smarter ocean.
Inchcape combines its worldwide infrastructure with local expertise through our global network of over 250 proprietary offices, across 70 countries and a team of more than 3,000 committed professionals. Our diverse global customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors as well as naval, government and intergovernmental organizations.
We have an ambitious growth model and a career here is certainly going to be a rewarding one that will allow you to bring your skills & experience. We embrace change and are open to new thinking and pushing for positive change in our industry.
Main Purpose of Job
The Data Team Lead will be responsible for managing the data extraction, cleanse and quality of key data used within the organisation. This role will lead a team of data resources, who are responsible for capturing data from various sources of information (often unstructured/flat files) into a structured excel data set.
Key Accountabilities
- Lead and mentor a team of data resources involved in data capture, cleansing, and enrichment of information captured from various sources.
- Perform quality assurance activities to ensure the data output provided by the team is accurate without any errors; this is essential as the data involved is financial operational data, often received in unstructured format like pdf/word files.
- Capturing of best practices/lessons and ensuring these are adhered to by the team to ensure robust data quality. Ensuring close collaboration and knowledge sharing within the team. Applying disciplinary actions for data handling violations.
- Resource allocation and advance planning of work to meet critical deadlines.
- Managing stakeholders to obtain/clarify information and ultimately receive sign-off.
- Working with IT team to upload data into a central Master Data system.
- Presenting regular updates to Management team, on progress, blockers and quality adherence.
- Manage the creation and maintenance of a centralized repository for supporting evidence in SharePoint. Ensure clear traceability of data received, to data cleansed, to data signed-off, to data submitted for loading into the system.
Essential:
- Bachelor's degree.
- Strong team management and coaching skills.
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to document and present status update on data capture, data cleanse, and data review activities.
- Resilient to pressure in managing multiple tasks and context switching.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively across different teams.
- Experience of capturing and cleansing high volume operational/finance data, in a collaborative environment working with multiple team members and stakeholders.
- Advanced Excel skills required to perform data capture, cleanse and reporting e.g. VLOOKUP's, formulas, pivots, table, and filtering.
Desirable:
- Experience in the logistics/shipping industry.
- Experience in Data used within Finance/Accounts Payable.
Plus much more!
Why Inchcape Shipping Services
We believe in building a diverse andhigh-performing workforce that works together to provide our customers with the exceptional service they deserve. To reach the highest standards, we depend on our people, their welfare, training, and expertise. We realize the value of our staff and know that your unique experiences, skills, and passions will help you to build a rich and rewarding career in our dynamic industry.
Our values are at the centre of everything we do, and the successful candidatewill be expected to demonstrate and fully adopt these:
Global Perspective-We connect the world and see the bigger picture.
The Power of People -we rely on the strength of local agent knowledge and relationships.
Progress-we adopt new thinking and push for positive change in our industry.
Inchcape is an Equal Opportunities Employer - equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. Working in a diverse society, we recognise that our customers, colleagues, and contractors are central to our success.
Additional Information:
Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work documentation, depending upon your geographical location.
To protect the interests of all parties, Inchcape will not accept unsolicited or speculative resumes from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any fees associated with them.
