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Purpose 

To build and lead a trusted Group Business Intelligence function that turns complex data into 

clear, commercially actionable insight, enabling confident growth, enrolment, retention, and 

investment decisions across the organisation. 

Providing clear, actionable insight across the full parent lifecycle, improved ROI and 

efficiency of marketing and admissions investment, robust forecasting accuracy and capacity 

planning, robust evidence base for M&A decisions and post-acquisition value creation 

This role exists to seamlessly connect strategy to execution, ensuring marketing, 

admissions, M&A, and technology operate from the same evidence base and are aligned on 

outcomes 

The role holder must be commercially minded with a strong focus on growth, value creation, 

and ROI. Be outcome-focused, prioritising filled seats, retained families, and sustainable 

growth; 

• Strong systems thinker, able to understand interdependencies across brand, demand, 

operations, and experience 

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and evolving data environments 

• Calm under seasonal, enrolment, and executive pressure 

• Highly collaborative across marketing, admissions, finance, strategy, and technology 

• Grounded with strong judgment around sensitive family and child data 

• Pragmatic change leader capable of building standards in low data-maturity 

environments 

Key Responsibilities 

• Translating complex analysis and enterprise growth strategy into clear, measurable 

insight priorities and actions 

• Building and leading high-performing BI and analytics teams 

• Influencing local countries BI or FP&A BI and FP&A function in a matrix organisation 

• Operating as a strategic partner to marketing, admissions, finance, strategy, and 

technology leaders 

• Influencing senior stakeholders and boards, through data driven story telling 

• Designing insight cadences aligned to operational and seasonal rhythms 

BI Delivery & Enablement 

• Delivery of reliable, robust key BI data for executive, board, and operational dashboards 

• Defining enterprise-wide metrics, standards, and data definitions 

• Partnering with technology to deliver scalable, reliable data pipelines 

• Enabling self-service analytics while maintaining governance and quality 

Growth, Enrolment & Retention 

• Ensure full-funnel and cohort analysis across enrolment and retention 

• Produce intake forecasting and scenario modelling by school, year level, and programme 

• Design early-warning systems for attrition, disengagement, and yield risk 

Experience 

• Senior leadership experience in business intelligence, analytics, or growth intelligence 

roles – working flexibly with a range of difference data source and BI systems to achieve 

objectives 

• Proven track record building and scaling BI or analytics functions from fragmented data 

environments 

• Proven track record of linking market intelligence data with internal data 

• Hands-on experience with CRM, enrolment systems, marketing analytics platforms, and 

BI tools 

• Demonstrated impact improving enrolment growth, retention, and marketing ROI 

• Experience supporting executive and board-level decision-making with data 

• Experience of developing a BI road map and securing support and engagement from 

senior leadership teams, including in an international environment 

• Exposure to M&A analytics, portfolio performance management and investment 

modelling