Senior Data Manager

Organisation: London Sport
Salary: £45,900 per annum
Location: 2 plus days per week in our central London office
Contract type: Permanent (Full time)
Closing date: 19 October 2025
Interview date: 4 November 2025
Job Description: The Role
Find out more about this role at our online candidate information session on Monday 6th October at 12pm. A recording of the webinar will be available on our YouTube channel after the session. See the recruitment pack for full details.

This role can be done on a full time (35 hrs per week) or part time (0.8 FTE) basis.

The Senior Data Manager sits within our Insight & Impact (I&I) Directorate. The Directorate brings together research, data, evaluation and storytelling so decisions are evidence-led, and the impact of our work is clear to partners, funders and communities. 

Within I&I, the Insight & Data team provides trusted data, analytics and platforms that power programme delivery, place-based priorities and our Pan-London Research & Data Hub. 

You’ll report to the Head of Insight & Data, and work alongside the Data & Analytics Lead and the Product Manager. You will coordinate with colleagues in the wider I&I Directorate (including Impact and Insight teams) and partners across and beyond the sport and physical activity sector. 

Responsible for the delivery and engagement elements of the London Sport data strategy, including; strategic themes, Research & Data Hub, Place and Organisation Excellence. You will work closely with the Data and Analytics lead who oversees and implements the technical aspects of delivering the strategy.

What you’ll do:

You will own the quarterly plan and delivery cadence, coordinating stakeholders across themes, places, internal reporting, and the Pan-London Research & Data Hub, to release trusted data products on time and to the Data and Analytics Lead’s governance standards.
You will drive adoption through communications, training, and usage tracking; understanding how our activities are valued by our stakeholders. 
Create a roadmap for data collection and analysis that contributes most to London Sport Outcomes. Work with I&I colleagues to horizon scan, forecast, and develop innovative new data led approaches to support our strategy.
Manage delivery of the data development roadmap and prioritised backlog across multiple data workstreams. 
Lead stakeholder engagement across internal teams and external partners
Operate the Research & Data Hub: plan releases, communications, training, and track usage analytics to grow adoption. 
Ensure releases meet governance requirements (data quality checks, metadata/lineage, RBAC, retention) defined and signed off by the Data and Analytics Lead. 
Uncover new opportunities to use data for priority places, underserved communities, and our universal offer. 
Support commercialisation opportunities in line with our diversification of income strategy. 
Provide inputs to budget forecasts and coordinate vendors logistics (data budget is owned/approved by the Data and Analytics Lead). 
Report progress via KPIs. 

Who you are:

Significant experience delivering data/analytics projects or multi-stream programmes end-to-end. 
Strong project/program management: agile/iterative delivery, estimation, dependency management, KPI management. 
A confident and impactful communicator and presenter. You can sell the insights gathered through our data to colleagues, partners, and stakeholders to influence and advocate for change and collaboration around shared vision.
Proven stakeholder management and change/adoption leadership. 
Experience setting RACI and Definition of Ready/Done, embedding governance gates in delivery. 
Experience operating a data/BI product (analytics hub/portal/report suite) with adoption metrics. 
Strong data literacy for planning and adoption (interpret BI usage metrics, understand data definitions and quality checks, and partner effectively with the Data and Analytics Lead). 
You can demonstrate an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion in relation to London.
A knowledge of how to work with funders, local authorities, policy makers, charities and/or non-profit purpose driven organisations.
Experience in public/charity/sport or broader social-impact settings. 

Timeline:
Deadline for applications: EoD on Sunday 19th October
How to apply: To Apply: To apply for this role please visit: https://careers.londonsport.org/job/773003 If you have any questions about the role or London Sport, please email hr@londonsport.org.