Data Strategy Manager

SALARY: Up to £85,000 pa dependent on experience

LOCATION: Milton Keynes, MK15 8HG

HYBRID WORKING: Our current hybrid working policy requires a minimum of 60% of working time to be based in the Milton Keynes office. Flexibility is expected to meet the needs of the business and the role.

HOURS / CONTRACT TYPE (FTC DURATION/PERM): Full Time Permanent - 35 hours per week

CLOSING DATE: 13/02/2026

Shape the future of data at VWFS. Drive strategy. Inspire culture. Deliver transformation.

We're searching for a Data Strategy Manager who's ready to take the lead in shaping, executing and managing the organisation's data strategy. This influential role sits at the heart of our transformation, ensuring data is managed and used to unlock value, accelerate innovation and support strategic decision making across the enterprise.

Working closely with the Head of Data and collaborate with functions across the business, you'll guide our vision, steer data driven change, and champion a culture where everyone has the confidence and capability to use data well.

What you'll be doing:

• Operate across both Volkswagen Financial Services (UK) Ltd. and VW Bank GmbH, complying with all applicable FCA, ECB, PRA and EOHB regulatory requirements.
• Lead the design and delivery of a comprehensive data strategy and multiyear roadmap. Ensuring strong alignment with business goals and securing stakeholder buy-in for investment, budget and headcount.
• Drive data literacy across the organisation, shaping training and engagement programmes tailored to different data personas and fostering a culture of curiosity, capability and accountability.
• Champion and strengthen data culture, assessing and enhancing skills and capabilities across the data team, analyst community and wider organisation through targeted learning pathways and external partnerships.
• Oversee demand management processes, building robust business cases for strategic investment and identifying opportunities for data monetisation, supported by clear KPIs.
• Manage a portfolio of data-driven change, including the data transformation programme and data delivery within strategic programmes and product teams.
• Ensure alignment with organisational governance, project and programme management frameworks, and all relevant controls.
• Oversee enterprise data risks, managing the Data team's risk and control self-assessment and ensuring effective tracking and mitigation.
• Lead key data forums and committees. Acting as secretariat and deputising for the Head of Data as required, ensuring alignment with VWFS UK and VWG governance structures.

A full job description is available on request.

What you'll bring:

You're a seasoned data professional with the credibility and communication skills to influence at every level. You'll combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery experience and a passion for building strong data culture.

Essential experience & skills

• Proven project and programme management experience, delivering complex data or change initiatives using both waterfall and agile methodologies.
• Broad understanding of modern data capabilities, including BI/performance reporting, analytics, data governance, information governance, data architecture, data platforms and data engineering.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trusted relationships that drive decision-making and influence outcomes.
• Experience within Financial Services or a regulated environment.
• Commercial acumen and strategic thinking with the ability to translate ideas into compelling propositions.
• Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor communications for multiple stakeholder groups (e.g. Senior Leadership, the data community and front-line teams); convey specialist concepts in simple terms through a range of techniques (e.g. diagrams, data visualisation, infographics) and present effectively to board-level.
• High proficiency with MS Office, particularly PowerPoint.

Desirable

• Experience leading data culture or data literacy initiatives.
• Qualification in data management, business analytics, or similar.
• Experience in Automotive Finance or consumer finance (B2C or B2B).
• SAFe or equivalent agile certification.
• Programme management certification (e.g., MSP).

What's in it for you?

Bonus: Discretionary 10% on-target bonus (based on personal and Group company performance)

Pension: Employer pension contribution of 9% (based on employee contribution of 3%). VWFS will pay 6% if employee chooses a 2% employee contribution.

Car schemes: Choice of Employee Car Ownership (ECO) scheme for petrol/diesel and hybrid vehicles plus car insurance and fuel card

OR

Company Car scheme for Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) plus car insurance cover for you and a partner/eligible family member.

Other benefits: From day 1 we provide income protection, life assurance (4x salary), retail discount vouchers, access to Care Concierge (a service to support carers of adults), along with other salary sacrifice options including a will writing service and cycle to work (subject to scheme restrictions).

Following successful completion of probation, you will have access to private medical insurance for you (with the option to buy additional family cover), access to our loan car scheme for up to 2 cars for your partner or eligible family members (subject to scheme restrictions) and during our annual benefit window you can purchase critical illness cover and dental cover, so you can select the benefits that matter to you.

We invest in our people and are passionate about driving development. You'll have access to LinkedIn Learning via our Degreed platform as well as a host of professional development programmes and opportunities to build your technical and soft skills so you can further develop your career. We also offer mentoring schemes and reciprocal partnerships recognising that we can all learn from each other in the flow of work.

About Us

Why join VWFS UK?

You'll have the opportunity to make a difference by helping us to achieve our mission.

Our mission is straight forward; we want to be 'The Key to Mobility'. That means we make getting from A-to-B as easy and simple for as many people as possible. To truly meet the mobility needs of people in a changing world, our offering goes beyond traditional vehicle financing. We do this by providing a range of finance and aftersales products on Volkswagen Group vehicles, as well as developing innovative mobility products designed to solve real problems and support our customers. Data is recognised as one of the key dimensions of our corporate strategy and underpins many of the strategic outcomes that we plan to achieve.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

VWFS is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. Diversity, Equity & Inclusion isn't just a statement for us, we encourage and aspire for all our colleagues to be their 100% self. If you need any reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Resourcing Team.