Head of Data Engineering & Governance

About this role

About THG

We are THG, a global ecommerce group on a mission to be the global online leader in beauty and sports nutrition.

Our portfolio of leading retailers and brands such as LOOKFANTASTIC, Myprotein, ESPA, Perricone MD, and Cult Beauty form our two core businesses: THG Beauty and THG Nutrition.

From Manchester to New York, we’re powered by a team of over 2500 people who work together, lead by example, and think BIG.

With us, you’ll go further, faster. What are you waiting for?

Location: Icon 1, WA15 0AF

About Central Functions

Central Functions is formed of the teams and people that serve the entire business. These people are integral to the smooth running of the business; ensuring everyone is paid on time, that materials are sourced and arrive promptly, that we meet our legal obligations and that our health, safety, and security is safeguarded.

Why be the Head of Data Engineering and Governance at THG?

THG is building a world-class data function to power one of the UK's largest e-commerce businesses. As Head of Engineering & Governance, you will own the quality, availability and structure of the data that enables every business-facing team across our Beauty and Nutrition divisions.

This is not a systems infrastructure role. You are not managing foundational platform plumbing — that sits with our technology partner, Ingenuity. Your remit is the layer above that: how data is structured, governed, made available and used across the business. You will set the direction for how THG gets the most from its data ecosystem, ensuring that analytics teams, data scientists, and business leaders can trust and act on the data they see.

You will lead three distinct functions: Engineering (how we build, structure and maintain our data domains), Governance (how we ensure quality, consistency and trust), and Reporting (how we present business performance data consistently across PLC). You will work closely with Ingenuity, who provide the foundational platform and first-layer pipelines, to set requirements and standards that flow through from ingestion to insight.

We are at an early stage of this journey. Our data foundations need significant work — we have talented analysts who have been doing engineering work without the structure or tools to do it well, governance that is essentially non-existent, and reporting that has grown organically without consistency. You will shape and deliver the roadmap that fixes this.

What you'll do:

Strategic Direction

• Set the vision and roadmap for data engineering, governance and reporting across THG PLC

• Define how data domains (Customer, Commercial, Operations) should be structured, stored and made available for analytics, data science and AI use cases

• Own the relationship with Ingenuity on platform and data matters — setting requirements, managing dependencies and ensuring PLC needs are reflected in the Ingen roadmap

• Evaluate where THG should use Ingen…