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# Commercial Data & AI Readiness Lead

- **Company:** Currys PLC
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,917.0
- **Contract:** Temporary contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Data Auditing, Data Sharing, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** September 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.co.uk/jobs/details/5867269838

## About the Role

* Strong understanding of retail commercial operations including the roles, processes and functions of a retailer (Essential)
 * Proven experience auditing and rationalising complex, multi-source commercial data landscapes
 * Strong working knowledge of Databricks, Unity Catalog, medallion architecture and modern data pipeline approaches
 * Understanding of how to structure, catalogue and govern data so it is ready to be consumed by AI and analytics tools
 * Experience defining reporting suite specifications and dashboard requirements in a commercial or retail context
 * Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align multiple teams (Commercial, Finance, Group Data) around a shared data strategy
 * Ability to work at pace within a fixed timeframe, prioritising "no-regrets" foundational work over full-scope delivery
 * Excellent communication skills, comfortable presenting findings and recommendations to senior stakeholders for directional sign-off
 * Experience working within large-scale commercial transformation programmes is highly desirable

## Description

The Commercial function's data is currently fragmented, which limits its ability to adopt AI and slows confident, optimal decision-making. This 12 month fixed-term role exists to deliver the foundational data work that changes what auditing what exists today, then defining and specifying the priority commercial datasets so our AI squads can build them into the company's data platform (Azure Databricks).

As part of this role, you'll be responsible for:

 * Conduct a full audit of all commercial data sources currently in use across the business
 * Identify reporting gaps, inconsistencies, and duplicated or localised reporting practices
 * Engage stakeholders across Commercial, Finance, and Group Data to capture priorities and requirements
 * Agree exact, consistent data points required across the business
 * Own the definitions and arbitrate decisions through the build, unblock issues, and check each delivered dataset against its specification
 * Create a full specification for the commercial reporting suite
 * Produce high-level dashboard requirements to guide future build
 * Create a phased, actionable AI roadmap aligned to the wider Commercial Transformation programme
 * Work closely with Commercial, Finance, and Group Data teams to ensure alignment and buy-in
 * Maintain clear boundaries of scope - this role is not responsible for building data pipelines, reporting suites or deploying AI tools, but for laying the groundwork that enables them

You'll work closely with the Product Lead, the role holder will make focused, "no-regrets" progress across data auditing, dataset definition, driving reporting design and AI readiness, preparing the Commercial team to draw full value from its AI capability.