United Kingdom · Compliance Quality Health Safety · Principal/Manager (12-16 years)

Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandPrincipal/Manager (12-16 years)
  • Direct reports5-8 reports
  • Reports toDirector, EHS Systems & Predictive Analytics
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Head of Safety Data Science · EHS Analytics Lead · Senior Manager, Compliance Intelligence · Predictive Risk Manager

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1What this role really is

This role isn't just about crunching numbers; it's about leading a team that fundamentally changes how we think about safety and compliance. You'll be building out our predictive capabilities, moving us from reacting to incidents to actively preventing them. Think of it as being the conductor of an orchestra, ensuring all the data instruments play in harmony to give us a clear, forward-looking picture of risk. You're not just managing people; you're managing a shift in mindset, helping the business see around corners.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Intelex / Cority / Enablon (EHS & GRC Platforms)Strategic/Architect

You'll lead the strategic design and integration of these platforms, ensuring they capture the necessary data for predictive analytics and support enterprise-wide data models. You'll also oversee your team's use of these platforms for data extraction and reporting.

Power BI / Tableau (Data Visualization)Strategic/Architect

You'll govern the enterprise BI environment for EHS, setting visualisation standards and strategy. You'll ensure your team builds clear, impactful dashboards that operational leaders can easily understand and use for decision-making.

SQL (PostgreSQL / MS SQL Server)Advanced

While your team will write the complex queries, you'll need to be able to review their work, understand database schemas, and guide them on data extraction strategies. You'll also be involved in governing data access and security policies.

You'll set the technical direction for your team's data science work in Python, mentoring them on advanced modelling techniques, code quality, and deployment best practices. You won't be coding daily, but you'll need to understand the underlying principles and review complex scripts.

Alteryx / FME (Data Prep & ETL)Strategic/Architect

You'll architect the end-to-end data pipeline strategy, from source systems to analytical platforms, ensuring your team has access to clean, integrated data. You'll oversee the development of complex workflows for data blending and cleaning.

ServiceNow GRC / Archer (Enterprise GRC)Strategic/Architect

You'll own the GRC module strategy for EHS, ensuring that predictive risk findings are integrated into the enterprise risk register and control framework. This means linking your team's analytical outputs to broader organisational risk management.

Diligent / BoardVantage (Board Reporting)Advanced

You'll guide your team in preparing data and charts for inclusion in board-level risk reports. You'll also be involved in crafting the narrative and potentially presenting predictive risk insights directly to the Board's Risk Committee.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Project PrioritisationFollows assigned tasks; no independent prioritisation.Prioritises own tasks within project scope; escalates conflicts to manager.Prioritises workstreams within a project; recommends changes to project manager.
Technical Methodology & ToolingUses specified tools and methodologies.Selects appropriate methods/tools from an approved list for routine tasks.Designs and implements new technical methodologies within project scope; recommends new tools to leadership.
Team Hiring & PerformanceNo hiring authority; receives performance feedback.No hiring authority; contributes to peer feedback.Interviews and provides feedback for junior roles; mentors new hires.
Budget AllocationNo budget authority.No budget authority.Manages project-specific expenses up to £5K.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Team Model Deployment Rate
Percentage of developed predictive models that are successfully deployed into production and actively used by operational teams.
Target · 80% of models deployed annually

Your team develops 10 new predictive models in a year; 8 of them are integrated into daily operations or decision-making processes.

Risk Reduction Contribution
Measurable reduction in specific risk indicators (e.g., near-misses, high-potential incidents) in areas targeted by your team's predictive insights.
Target · 5-10% reduction in targeted incident types

Following your team's analysis and recommendations, a specific plant sees a 7% drop in 'struck-by' incidents over six months.

Operational Efficiency Gain
Time or cost savings achieved by operational teams through proactive interventions identified by your team's analytics.
Target · Documented £50K-£100K annual savings

Your team's model identifies a maintenance pattern leading to equipment failure, allowing proactive repairs that save £75K in downtime and repair costs.

Team Productivity & Quality
Overall output and quality of work from your direct reports, including project completion rates and peer review feedback.
Target · 90% project completion on time; average 4/5 peer review score

Your team consistently delivers projects within agreed timelines, and their models are robust with minimal post-deployment issues.

Stakeholder Trust & Adoption
How well operational leaders and other key stakeholders trust and actually use the insights your team provides.
  • Operational teams proactively seek your team's input on new initiatives
  • your insights are regularly cited in leadership meetings
  • positive feedback in annual stakeholder surveys regarding the clarity and actionability of your team's outputs.
Team Development & Mentorship
Your ability to grow and develop your team members, fostering their technical skills and career progression.
  • Successful internal promotions within your team
  • analysts taking on more complex projects independently
  • positive feedback from direct reports on your coaching and support
  • a clear succession plan for key roles within your team.
Strategic Alignment & Innovation
How well your team's work aligns with broader business objectives and how effectively you introduce new analytical techniques or data sources.
  • Your team's projects are directly linked to company-wide safety or quality goals
  • successful pilot programmes for new predictive methodologies (e.g., using IoT data for real-time risk)
  • regular contributions to the broader EHS analytics strategy.
Data Governance & Quality Improvement
Your leadership in improving the underlying data quality and governance processes that feed your team's models.
  • Documented improvements in data completeness or accuracy from key source systems
  • successful implementation of new data validation routines
  • active participation in cross-functional data governance committees, driving change.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Making a Tangible Impact

You'll get a real buzz from seeing your team's analysis lead to a reduction in incidents or a measurable improvement in safety culture. It's about preventing harm, not just reporting on it.

Your team's predictive model flags a high-risk area, leading to a targeted intervention that prevents a serious injury. That's a direct win.

Building & Developing a High-Performing Team

You'll enjoy coaching your analysts, helping them grow their skills, and seeing them take ownership of complex projects. There's satisfaction in seeing your team thrive.

Mentoring a junior analyst who then successfully leads their first end-to-end predictive project, delivering significant insights.

Solving Complex, Real-World Problems

The challenge of taking messy, disparate data and turning it into clear, actionable predictions for critical business functions like safety and quality is what gets you up in the morning.

Successfully integrating IoT sensor data with HR records and maintenance logs to predict equipment failure risks, a problem that seemed impossible to solve before.

What frustrates people
  • The constant struggle with data quality and availability across disparate systems.
  • Cultural resistance to data-driven decision-making, especially from long-serving managers.
  • The difficulty in demonstrating the financial return on investment for preventative safety measures.
  • Seeing critical risks identified by your team not being actioned due to resource constraints or competing priorities.
  • The 'black swan' event that your model couldn't possibly have foreseen, leading to questions about the entire programme's credibility.
What this role does not give you
  • A perfectly clean, ready-to-use data lake.
  • An environment where every single insight your team generates is immediately acted upon.
  • A purely technical individual contributor role; you'll be leading and managing, not just coding.
  • A predictable, unchanging set of problems; the challenges are always evolving.

6Who you work with

This role is pretty central to our risk management strategy. Your team's work directly informs critical operational decisions, helping to reduce our total recordable incident rate, minimise quality defects, and ensure we're always on the right side of the law. Get it right, and we're a safer, more efficient business. Get it wrong, and we could face serious incidents, hefty fines, and significant reputational damage. You're essentially building the early warning system for the entire organisation.

Inside the business
  • EHS Leadership Team
  • Operations Directors and Plant Managers
  • Quality Assurance Heads
  • Legal & Regulatory Affairs
  • HR Leadership (for workforce data insights)
  • IT & Data Engineering
Outside the business
  • External auditors and regulators (indirectly, through reporting)
  • Industry bodies and safety forums
  • Technology vendors (for EHS and analytics platforms)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven experience (at least 3-5 years) in leading and managing a data science or analytics team, including performance management and career development.
  • Demonstrable expertise in designing, building, and deploying complex predictive models using Python (or R) and SQL in a real-world business context.
  • Strong understanding of statistical methods, machine learning algorithms, and experimental design (A/B testing).
  • Extensive experience with data visualisation tools (Power BI, Tableau) and presenting complex data to non-technical audiences.
  • Deep knowledge of EHS, Quality, or Risk Management principles and frameworks, ideally within a regulated industry.
  • A track record of successfully influencing senior stakeholders and driving the adoption of data-driven insights.
  • Experience with large, messy datasets and a pragmatic approach to data cleaning and integration.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Real-time Analytics & IoT Integration

The ability to process and analyse data in real-time from IoT sensors (e.g., equipment monitors, wearable safety devices) will allow for truly proactive risk interventions. This moves us beyond daily or weekly updates to immediate alerts, preventing incidents as they unfold. Your team will need to master streaming data architectures.

Stream Processing Frameworks (e.g., Apache Kafka, Flink) · Edge Computing for Anomaly Detection · Time-Series Forecasting Models · Data Latency & Throughput Optimisation

  • This month: Research current industry applications of IoT in EHS, looking at case studies.
  • Next quarter: Identify a pilot project within the organisation where real-time sensor data could provide significant safety insights.
  • Within 6 months: Guide your team in exploring and prototyping a real-time anomaly detection model using a small dataset.
  • Within 12 months: Develop a roadmap for integrating key IoT data streams into your predictive analytics platform, including necessary infrastructure changes.

Quick win: Start a small proof-of-concept project with your team using publicly available IoT datasets to get familiar with stream processing concepts and tools.

Generative AI for Compliance & Risk Synthesis

Beyond simple summarisation, Generative AI (GenAI) will evolve to synthesise complex compliance documents, cross-reference them with internal policies, and even draft risk assessments based on contextual data. This will dramatically reduce the manual effort in compliance interpretation and risk reporting, shifting your team's focus to validation and strategic oversight.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) Architectures · Prompt Engineering for Complex Tasks · Hallucination Detection & Mitigation · Fine-tuning LLMs with Domain-Specific Data

  • This month: Encourage your team to experiment with GenAI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) for drafting summaries of internal reports.
  • Next quarter: Identify one specific, repetitive compliance reporting task that could be significantly automated with GenAI.
  • Within 6 months: Oversee a pilot project to implement a RAG-based solution for a specific compliance research or reporting need.
  • Within 12 months: Develop a strategy for scaling GenAI applications across your team's workflow, focusing on efficiency and accuracy gains.

Quick win: Have your team use GenAI to draft the first pass of meeting minutes or internal project updates. It's a low-risk way to get familiar with the tools and see immediate time savings.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry conferences (e.g., AI in EHS, Data Science Leadership summits) to stay abreast of trends and network.
  • Participating in online courses or bootcamps on advanced machine learning, ethical AI, or cloud-based data platforms.
  • Contributing to relevant professional communities or forums, sharing insights and learning from peers.
  • Mentoring junior professionals, both within and outside your team, to hone your leadership and coaching skills.
  • Taking on stretch assignments that broaden your exposure to different business units or strategic challenges.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Ethical AI & Bias Detection in Predictive Models

As our predictive models become more sophisticated and influence critical safety decisions, ensuring they are fair, unbiased, and transparent is paramount. Regulators and society are increasingly scrutinising AI ethics, and a biased model could lead to unfair treatment or missed risks. This isn't just a technical challenge; it's a moral and reputational one.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Ethical AI & Bias Detection in Predictive Models

As our predictive models become more sophisticated and influence critical safety decisions, ensuring they are fair, unbiased, and transparent is paramount. Regulators and society are increasingly scrutinising AI ethics, and a biased model could lead to unfair treatment or missed risks. This isn't just a technical challenge; it's a moral and reputational one.

  • Algorithmic Fairness Metrics
  • Explainable AI (XAI) Techniques
  • Data Bias Identification
  • Privacy-Preserving AI

Advanced Change Management for AI Adoption

Deploying predictive models isn't just a technical task; it's a change management challenge. Operational teams often resist new technologies, especially when they challenge traditional ways of working or 'gut feel'. As AI becomes more prevalent, your ability to lead and manage this change effectively will be crucial for the success and adoption of your team's outputs.

  • ADKAR Model for Change Management
  • Stakeholder Mapping & Engagement
  • User-Centred Design for Analytics
  • Building Trust in AI

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Predictive Hazard Analysis (PHA) & Risk Modelling
  • Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) Principles
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC) for EHS
  • Data Governance & Quality Management
  • A/B Testing & Causal Inference

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Predictive Safety & Compliance Analyst (L3)

    3-5 years

    Skills to master

    • You'd have mastered building and deploying complex predictive models, consistently leading projects, and informally mentoring junior analysts. You'd also have a strong track record of influencing stakeholders with your insights.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivers high-quality, impactful analytical projects end-to-end.
    • Sought out by peers for technical guidance and problem-solving.
    • Proactively identifies new analytical opportunities and champions their pursuit.
    • Demonstrates strong communication skills with non-technical audiences.
  2. 2

    Lead Predictive Safety Strategist (L4)

    2-4 years

    Skills to master

    • You'd be the technical architect for our predictive safety solutions, tackling the most complex problems and defining the analytical roadmap. You'd have a strong influence on strategic direction and might have managed a few project-based teams.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Architects robust, scalable analytical solutions for complex business problems.
    • Recognised as the go-to technical expert for predictive analytics within EHS.
    • Successfully influences senior leadership on technical strategy and investment.
    • Effectively mentors and develops multiple junior analysts.
  3. 3

    Manager from another Analytics/Data Science Function

    N/A (direct entry)

    Skills to master

    • You'd bring proven experience managing a data science or analytics team in another domain. The key here would be quickly getting up to speed on the specific nuances of Compliance, Quality, Health, and Safety regulations and operational contexts.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Demonstrates strong transferable leadership and team management skills.
    • Proven track record of delivering impactful analytical solutions in a different industry.
    • Quickly grasps complex new domain knowledge and applies analytical thinking.
    • Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a career where you can genuinely make a difference. You'll be at the forefront of a critical, emerging field, leading a talented team, and shaping the future of safety and compliance. If you're ready to lead, innovate, and drive real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

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The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

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Applied to your work in Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics

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How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
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One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
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You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Team Model Deployment RatePercentage of developed predictive models that are successfully deployed into production and actively used by operational teams.Your team develops 10 new predictive models in a year; 8 of them are integrated into daily operations or decision-making processes.80% of models deployed annually
  • Risk Reduction ContributionMeasurable reduction in specific risk indicators (e.g., near-misses, high-potential incidents) in areas targeted by your team's predictive insights.Following your team's analysis and recommendations, a specific plant sees a 7% drop in 'struck-by' incidents over six months.5-10% reduction in targeted incident types
  • Operational Efficiency GainTime or cost savings achieved by operational teams through proactive interventions identified by your team's analytics.Your team's model identifies a maintenance pattern leading to equipment failure, allowing proactive repairs that save £75K in downtime and repair costs.Documented £50K-£100K annual savings
  • Team Productivity & QualityOverall output and quality of work from your direct reports, including project completion rates and peer review feedback.Your team consistently delivers projects within agreed timelines, and their models are robust with minimal post-deployment issues.90% project completion on time; average 4/5 peer review score
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

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Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics to Director, EHS Systems & Predictive Analytics (L6), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Director, EHS Systems & Predictive Analytics (L6)→ your design
Where this takes you

This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad for a career where you can genuinely make a difference. You'll be at the forefront of a critical, emerging field, leading a talented team, and shaping the future of safety and compliance. If you're ready to lead, innovate, and drive real impact, we'd love to hear from you.

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Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics
  • Predictive Hazard Analysis (PHA) & Risk Modelling
  • Human and Organisational Performance (HOP) Principles
  • Statistical Process Control (SPC) for EHS
  • Data Governance & Quality Management
  • A/B Testing & Causal Inference
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14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. One level up, from Manager to Director.

    • Enterprise EHS Platform Governance: Owning the strategic direction and integration of major EHS/GRC platforms across the business unit.
    • Advanced Risk Portfolio Management: Managing the overall risk profile for a business unit, using predictive insights to inform capital allocation.
    • Vendor & Partner Management: Strategic selection and management of key technology and consulting partners.
    • M&A Due Diligence (EHS Analytics): Contributing EHS analytics expertise to potential mergers and acquisitions.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

As a Manager, your time is precious, and so is your team's. Imagine if your analysts could spend less time on the tedious, repetitive stuff and more time on high-value, strategic thinking. That's exactly what AI can do for your Predictive Safety & Analytics team. We're not talking about replacing people; we're talking about empowering them.

In the world of Compliance, Quality, Health, and Safety, AI isn't just a buzzword – it's a game-changer. For your team, it means automating the grunt work, accelerating insights, and freeing up your brightest minds to tackle the truly complex problems. You'll be leading the charge in adopting these tools, ensuring your team is at the forefront of predictive risk management.

Automated Hazard Recognition

Your team can use NLP models to automatically read, classify, and tag hazards from thousands of daily safety observations and near-miss reports. This means less manual review for your analysts and faster identification of emerging risks. You'll oversee the integration and validation of these systems.

Accelerated Root Cause Analysis

Leverage machine learning to quickly analyse incident data against dozens of operational variables (like overtime, equipment age, weather) to surface non-obvious correlations. This helps your team pinpoint potential root causes for investigation much faster, reducing investigation time by 30-40% for complex incidents. You'll guide your team in interpreting these AI-generated insights.

AI-Powered Regulatory Research

Imagine using a GenAI assistant to ingest a new, 500-page environmental regulation, get a summary of key changes, and cross-reference it against the company's existing control library. This instantly identifies compliance gaps, saving your team (and Legal) 15-20 hours per quarter on manual review. You'll set the strategy for how your team uses these tools for compliance intelligence.

Draft Safety Communications Instantly

Your team can use AI to generate a first draft of a Safety Alert or Toolbox Talk based on structured data from a recent incident report. This ensures consistent, clear communication of critical safety information, saving 2-3 hours per week on communication workflows. You'll ensure these drafts meet our quality and brand standards.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics?

Common routes in include Senior Predictive Safety & Compliance Analyst (L3) (3-5 years), Lead Predictive Safety Strategist (L4) (2-4 years) and Manager from another Analytics/Data Science Function (N/A (direct entry)). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics progress to?

This role can lead on to Director, EHS Systems & Predictive Analytics (L6) (3-5 years), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics?

Increasingly, Ethical AI & Bias Detection in Predictive Models and Advanced Change Management for AI Adoption. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

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And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

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Your path, personalised

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Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Manager, Predictive Safety & Analytics: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Compliance Quality Health Safety

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain in this role – leading an analytics team, driving predictive insights, and navigating complex regulatory environments – are highly transferable. You could move into similar leadership roles in other highly regulated industries like Finance, Healthcare, or Pharmaceuticals, or even into broader operational excellence or risk management functions in any large organisation. The ability to use data to prevent problems is universally valued.

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