Lead Data and Analytics Woolworths Group India is partnering exclusively with Zinnov Group to recruit for this position.

About the role
As the Data and Analytics Lead, your contribution is centred on overseeing the timely and accurate delivery of reporting analytics requests and analytics projects while driving continuous capability development across your team. Operating as an empowering People Manager, you guide a squad of analysts to convert raw corporate data into structured reports, visual dashboards, actionable insights and agentic solutions. By removing operational roadblocks, managing stakeholder expectations, and instilling rigorous quality assurance controls, you empower your team to deliver high-impact analytics that support data-driven decision-making across functional business units. In this role, you navigate a fast-paced, agile operating environment characterised by multiple competing priorities and client-facing stakeholder demands. Based in Bangalore with operational coverage across 8am-5pm (earlier hours as needed), you collaborate daily with onshore and offshore People Data and Insights teams, Group data consumers, Information Management squads, Group Technology teams, Platform teams, and Group Data Management teams. Utilising Google Cloud Platform, SQL scripting, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, and Google Suite, you balance workload allocation, foster an inclusive team environment, and streamline delivery workflows to enhance operational throughput and deliver commercial value. What you’ll do
• Analytics Project Delivery & Workload Allocation: Plan, organise, and allocate analytics tasks across team members, managing project schedules to ensure reporting deliverables are met accurately and on time.
• Interactive Dashboard Build Oversight: Guide the design and construction of user-friendly interactive dashboards, ensuring published reporting layouts are intuitive, performant, and highly adopted across the Group.
• Data Modelling Oversight: Direct the execution of data engineering workstreams, ensuring offshore engineers implement sound data modelling principles and build clean, scalable solutions in line with design briefs and established coding standards.
• Operational Insights Verification & Quality Assurance: Review completed trend analyses and diagnostic reports to ensure they accurately pinpoint operational issues and provide clear commercial value for business stakeholders.
• Data Quality Supervision & Profiling Governance: Supervise routine data profiling, data cleansing, and validation checks to safeguard metrics accuracy and maintain zero critical errors across live team dashboards.




• Capability Building & Performance Coaching: Support analyst and engineering capability development through continuous performance coaching, skill-building initiatives, and constructive feedback grounded in psychological safety.
• Stakeholder Management & Expectation Alignment: Manage stakeholder expectations proactively across the People Data and Insights team, Group data consumers, clarifying analytical requirements and communicating project delivery timelines clearly.
• Agile Block Removal & Workflow Optimisation: Identify and remove operational roadblocks within a fast-paced Agile operating rhythm using Jira and Confluence, refining team delivery workflows to increase throughput.
• Cross-Functional & Offshore Team Leadership: Lead and coordinate daily technical workflows between onshore and offshore teams, fostering inclusive team leadership and cultural alignment across functional units. What you’ll bring
• Analytics Team Leadership & People Management: Proven professional experience leading data analytics teams, managing technical workloads, and fostering capability development within high-performing reporting functions.
• Workflow & Resource Planning Expertise: Substantial track record planning analytics deliverables, managing project schedules, and balancing analyst task allocations across competing operational priorities.
• BI Dashboard Oversight & Quality Assurance: Strong technical background supervising interactive dashboard builds, data modelling, data profiling routines, and validation checks to enforce metric accuracy.
• Stakeholder Collaboration & Cross-Functional Alignment: Established capability engaging diverse business stakeholders, managing operational expectations, and aligning onshore and offshore delivery squads. Inclusive Leadership & Resource Planning (People Leader Skills)
• Inclusive Team Leadership: Ability to build and sustain a high-performing, inclusive team environment grounded in psychological safety.
• Workload & Resource Planning (Team): Ability to plan and allocate team resources and workload to meet operational deadlines. Analytics Management & Governance (Technical)
• Dashboard & Reporting: Ability to design, develop,



and maintain reports and interactive dashboards that communicate key metrics and insights to stakeholders.
• Data Policy Compliance: Ability to monitor and enforce corporate data governance rules, access controls, and security standards across systems. Strategic Thinking & Cultural Intelligence (Adaptive & Leadership)
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to look beyond immediate tasks to identify long-term risks, opportunities, and big-picture connections.
• Cultural Intelligence: Ability to adapt effectively across diverse cultural contexts and global perspectives. What you’ll experience
• Be a part of Australia’s largest retailer
• 20 days annual leave
• A flexible approach to work
• Premium insurance coverage for you and your dependants Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and Current Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential. We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process. Your Personal Data By submitting your application, you acknowledge and consent to Zinnov Management Consulting Private Limited and its subsidiaries (Zinnov) and/or Woolworths Group Limited and its subsidiaries (Woolworths Group) collecting, processing and disclosing your personal information, including any sensitive personal information provided by you, for the purposes of managing the recruitment process, assessing your suitability for employment, communicating with you regarding your application, and, where appropriate, considering you for future employment opportunities, to the extent relevant. If your application is successful, Zinnov and/ or Woolworths Group will also use your personal information, including sensitive personal information, for managing your ongoing working relationship. Your personal information will be handled, in accordance with applicable privacy laws. To learn more about how we collect, use, disclose and safeguard your personal information, including your privacy rights, please refer to the Zinnov Privacy Policy and Woolworths Group Team Member Privacy Notice.

📌 Lead Data and Analytics (Bengaluru)
🏢 Woolworths Group International
📍 Bengaluru