Data & analytics

Hire a data and AI lead in Greece and Cyprus

A pragmatic operator who puts data foundations before demos and backs only the use cases that pay for themselves.

Interest in AI has reached Greek and Cypriot boardrooms well ahead of the data needed to act on it. A data and AI lead closes that gap in the right order, so the numbers can be trusted before any model is asked to use them. They are usually called in when:

Nobody owns the data: each department keeps its own spreadsheets and its own version of the truth
A pilot hit the data wall: the history it needed was incomplete or wrong
Forecasts still run on instinct, though years of sales history sit in the ERP
Data has outgrown one analyst and now needs someone who runs it as a function

The data and AI leads on Hellenic Talent are elite professionals from top consultancies, Big 4 firms and senior industry data roles. Just as important is what they will not do: pilot technology for its own sake, or sell a mid-market company outcomes that only exist at enterprise scale.

What does a data and AI lead actually do?

Put the data foundations in order: sources, ownership, quality and a governance rhythm that holds
Build reporting the leadership trusts enough to retire the parallel spreadsheets
Rank the AI use cases by business value, not novelty
Deliver forecasting, pricing and automation that teams keep using after launch
Choose tools and vendors sized to the company rather than the sales pitch
Say what AI cannot do yet for the business, and revisit it as the field moves

How to choose the right data and AI lead

What to test in the first conversation, whoever you end up hiring.

Data owners by name
Gave every key data domain a named owner and a quality measure in their last role, and can explain how it held.
From clean-up to payback
Can trace one AI or analytics use case from the data clean-up to the money it saved or earned.
Knows which hire comes first
Names the data role they would hire first in your company, and why it is usually not a data scientist.