Head of Analytics & Market Intelligence

Synthomer is a leading supplier of high-performance, highly specialised polymers and ingredients that play vital roles in key sectors such as coatings, construction, adhesives, and health and protection – growing markets that serve billions of end users worldwide. Headquartered in London, UK and publicly listed there since 1971, we employ c.3,900 employees across our 5 innovation centres of excellence and more than 29 manufacturing sites across Europe, North America and Asia. Around 20% of our sales volumes are from new and patent protected products.

At our innovation centres of excellence in the UK, Germany, China, Malaysia and Ohio, USA we collaborate closely with our customers to develop new products and enhance existing ones tailored to their needs, with an increasing range of sustainability benefits. Since 2021, we have been proud holders of the London Stock Exchange Green Economy Mark, which recognises green technology businesses making a significant contribution to a more sustainable, low-carbon economy.

Main Accountabilities:

• Design, build and drive overall Analytics strategy, methodology, and roadmap for the processes, systems, tools, and capabilities required to execute and maintain core data assets.
• Team Leadership & Hiring: Lead the recruitment and setup of a high-performing data analytics team, ensuring the right mix of skills, experience, and capabilities. Mentor and guide team members to ensure continuous development and high performance.
• Data Exploration & Insights Generation: Drive the exploration of large datasets to uncover patterns, trends, and actionable insights that will influence business strategies and decisions.
• Data Manipulation: Oversee the development of complex queries, e.g., SQL, for data extraction, cleaning, and transformation. Ensure best practices are adhered to when querying and working with data.
• Visualization & Reporting: Lead the creation of impactful visualizations and dashboards using tools like Power BI, Tableau, or others to communicate insights effectively to stakeholders at all levels of the organization to support key decision making.
• Stakeholder Coordination: Collaborate closely with local markets and business leaders to understand their needs and identify data opportunities that drive business growth and operational efficiencies. Work with cross-functional teams including data analysts, data engineers/scientists and business stakeholders to define, develop and execute data strategies that align with business objectives.
• Strategic Insights & Recommendations: Provide strategic recommendations based on data insights (internal and external, e.g., ICIS, Platt etc) that influence key decisions across the organization. Be a trusted advisor to senior leadership and business stakeholders.
• Develop and implement plans for business/market intelligence activities to identify trends that can help departments, managers, and executives make business decisions, i.e., modernise and improve the data-related processes and business in the Corporation.
• Team Management: Oversee day-to-day operations of the analytics team, ensuring high levels of collaboration, accountability, and performance.
• Lead data stewardship and master data governance for procurement.
• Develop data science capabilities and coordinate cross-functional analytics initiatives.
• Promote a data-driven culture and support staff training in data systems.
• Maintain and analyze the Procurement Spend Map for value opportunities.
• Monitor procurement compliance by analyzing commercial deals against market benchmarks and enforcing decision-making frameworks.
• Perform additional relevant tasks as assigned.

🌍 Global Benefits Overview

• 💰 Competitive, market-aligned compensation

• 🎯 Discretionary global bonus scheme

• 📈 Discretionary Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – for senior positions

• 🚗 Company car or car allowance – varies by region and role

• 🩺 Healthcare – tailored to regional locations

• 👶 Parental leave and family support – maternity, paternity, adoption (aligned with regional policies)

• 🏡 Working options – flexibility where it matters, based on role and business needs

• 📚 Learning & development opportunities – training, online platforms, buddy/mentorship programs, Internal Synthomer University with L&D offers

• 💙 Wellbeing support – employee assistance program (EAP), mental health resources, wellbeing initiatives

• 🌱 Retirement / pension contributions – plans vary by country

• 🤝 Culture of Inclusion – where everyone can thrive

• 🏆 Performance culture, global reward & recognition programmes