Product Data Lead, Soho Home - 6 Month FTC
London
Department: Head Office
The Role...
Responsible for leading product data management and governance, ensuring data integrity and rationalisation to establish a centralised, reliable data set. This role drives process improvements and supports the business in preparing for the rollout of Power BI through structured, insight-led data practices. It owns and develops the organisation’s data foundations, ensuring they are clean, governed, scalable, and fit for purpose as the business transitions to a data lake and enhanced reporting environment. This role reports directly to the Buying & Product Development team whilst being responsible for delivering cross functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities..
- Define and own data governance framework (standards, naming conventions, hierarchies, approval processes)
- Lead large-scale data cleanse and rationalisation across product, supplier and commercial data, ensuring standardisation and completeness
- Lead end-to-end SKU creation across multiple projects, ensuring alignment with critical path timelines
- Own and enforce a single source of truth for organisational data
- Design data structures to support future data lake architecture- enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of data workflows
- Partner with tech teams on data pipelines, integrations and system readiness
- Own Power BI data model strategy (ensuring outputs are robust and scalable)
- Act as final approver / gatekeeper for data changes and integrity
- Identify risks (e.g. duplication, inconsistency, gaps) and implement controls
- Line manage the Data Coordinator
Skills & Experience required
- Experience managing large datasets and data governance frameworks
- Strong Power BI and advanced Excel skills
- Data cleansing, standardisation, and transformation experience
- Understanding of data structures, pipelines, and integrations
- Strong organisation, problem-solving, and ability to independently manage multiple deadlines within structured timelines
- Confident stakeholder management and communication skills to inform go-forward decision making and processes
- 3 + years of relevant / equivalent demonstrated experience
Desirable (Not Essential)
- Experience with wider product data, Merchandising systems, or ERP platforms
- Experience with Retail Operations, Buying, or Product Development/ Data environments
Benefits…
Soho House offers competitive compensation packages that feature global benefits and perks. Whether you’re seeking entry-level employment or a new opportunity to expand your profession, we offer training to develop the technical and managerial skills necessary to grow your career.
- Soho Friends Membership
- 50% off Food & Drink, 7 days a week
- Staff Room Rates
- Private Health and Dental Care
- Weekly Pay
- Life Assurance
- Up to 50% Staff Discount on Cowshed & Soho Home
- In Office Dog Policy on Fridays
- Season Ticket Loan
- Christmas Office Closure
- In conjunction with Soho Impact, take 2 days paid a year to support a charity of your choice.
- Free Counselling Sessions
- Cookhouse & House Tonic: Our Cookhouse & House Tonic programmes offer unique food and drink trainings, events and opportunities to inspire and educate.
- Continuous training to develop yourself personally and professionally
- Exclusive access to our benefits platform with hundreds of discounts on shopping, gym memberships, holidays, insurance and much more
- Team Events: From fitness sessions to cinema screenings and art classes, each month we hold a series of fun events which you can sign up to.