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# Digital and Data Manager

- **Company:** Surrey County Council
- **Location:** Byfleet, UK
- **Salary:** £48,698.0 - £52,864.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Business Analytics Applications, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Database Storage Structures, Power BI, Tableau (Software)
- **Published:** September 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://jobsthamesvalley.co.uk/jobs/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2984954512-2

## About the Role

* Proven leadership experience in digital or data roles
 * Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills - especially with non-technical leadership - including acting as a strategic advisor to senior leadership
 * Strong understanding of data architecture and data governance, including database structures and API logic
 * Expertise in analytical tools (e.g. Power BI, Tableau)
 * Strong project management skills
 * Experience in process improvement and identification of opportunities
 * Experience of owning relationships with key suppliers and owning service improvement

To apply, we request that you submit a CV and you will be asked the following 3 questions:

 1. Tell us about a time in which you influenced senior leadership to use data in a more insightful manner. How did you balance best practice implementation with stakeholder relationships?
 2. Please describe your previous experience supporting an organisation to improve efficiency through making better use of digital capabilities. How did you identify opportunities, and how have you encouraged buy-in across all levels of seniority and technical experience?
 3. Give an example of how you have previously worked with external suppliers to improve service delivery. What techniques did you use to balance collaboration with contractual requirements, and what was the impact?

## Description

Operating with professional independence and autonomy, you will lead digital and data improvements for SPT, ensuring we deliver secure, compliant, and innovative services for members, employers, and stakeholders. You will codify, modernise, and provide strategic challenge to current systems and processes in order to improve operational efficiency, and customer outcomes. You will investigate business problems and opportunities, and specify required changes to processes, information, and technology.

You will provide strategic leadership in the data space, driving best practice to harness data to drive better decision-making, and to enable SPT to deliver its strategic objectives. This will include ownership of operational reporting and analytics, as well as championing a data-driven culture and acting as a trusted advisor on the usage of data. Furthermore, you will support with driving improvements from our suppliers, and make recommendations as to investments in digital and data tools and platforms.

In this role you will have line management responsibility for a Resources Officer who works across Digital and Data as well as Resources and Performance.


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