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Head of Strategic Programmes
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The world's leading trend forecaster, WGSN, has been on a trajectory of growth over the past few years with significant new launches and expansion into new countries and regions. To ensure that growth continues, a brand-new team has been created to oversee strategy and development and we have an exciting new Head of Strategic Programmes role within this team that will suit an ambitious, passionate and organized individual looking for their next step. This role will have high levels of senior management visibility and is likely to be a pipeline for exceptional talent within the business. As Head of Strategic Programmes your key responsibilities will include: * Oversee the governance, planning, delivery, implementation and tracking of agreed strategic projects and ensure all agreed project deliverables are met * Support the Executive on six-month and year-out planning, making recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative research * Oversee the insight delivery programme for WGSN providing recommendations to key stakeholders across business functions with the support of WGSN's Insight Analyst * Support delivery of strategic and transformation projects on an ad-hoc basis as required, e.g. new product launches, new initiatives, organisational structure Your experience * Strong leadership and influencing skills; interacting with C-Suite stake-holders and leading/developing teams; highly personable. * Extensive project management experience, including the ability to manage diverse and varied teams at both a high level and with more hands-on delivery where necessary * Ability to demonstrate previous experience of developing an analytical approach to address a business issue and where analytical outcomes have driven improvements with financial impact * Extensive experience in strategy, planning, operations, marketing or insights functions * Strong degree from a top university (or equivalent qualification) * Willingness to speak up on difficult issues and comfortable asking challenging questions * Ability to work on multiple projects and manage priorities * Excellent written and verbal communication abilities * High degree of numeracy and ability to use data to tell stories and communicate recommendations impactfully * Strong business acumen and a customer-led viewpoint * Result oriented mindset, strong problem-solving skills, creativity and decisiveness * A passion for trends; experience within B2B media, digital / data, design, consumer products and retail businesses (including Fashion, Interiors, Beauty, Food & Beverage) is desirable * Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; any additional commercial experience with data tools and languages for data manipulation and visualisation (e.g. SQL, Python, Tableau) is a bonus What we offer Our benefits package incorporates what we're passionate about - unlocking your future, overall well-being and sustainability - whilst giving you control over your benefits. * 25 days of holiday per year - with the option to buy or sell between 1-5 days * Great learning and development opportunities * Bonus, Pension, Private Medical and Dental Insurance plans * Life Assurance; Income Protection and Critical Illness covers * Option to opt into the Ascential Shares Scheme * Volunteering opportunities * Season ticket loans In addition, we offer flexible benefit packages that include Childcare Vouchers; Cycle to Work; Retail Vouchers; Gourmet Card; Gym Flex; Gadget Insurance, Health Assessments and Will Writing. We also place great importance on health, lifestyle and wellbeing consistently, in which you will have the options to fuel up on free fruit, attend yoga sessions, join our running club, or perhaps taking up on a lunchtime massages. About WGSN. Weoffer insights and inspiration from around the globe. We help our customers stay ahead and informed through trend forecasting and data science. We believe inspiration comes from the monumental and the mundane. If you're passionate about fashion and lifestyle this is a great place to be, giving you the opportunity to work with the world's most creative trend experts, designers, editors, account managers, marketers, product developers, customer service experts and much more in a meritocratic, high performance company. WGSN is an Ascential brand.Ascential is a specialist, global, information company that helps the world's most ambitious businesses win in the digital economy. Want more info? Find out more on what our people say: Ascential YouTube Channel If we inspire you, why not join and inspire us?