Lead Data Analyst

Salient Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous parental leave

Internal mobility and career develop

Job summary

Salient Group seeks a Lead Data Analyst for its Commercial Strategy & Advanced Analytics team in Sydney. The role blends senior leadership influence with hands-on data ownership in a hybrid work environment.

You will work directly with senior leadership to drive revenue growth, optimize commercial outcomes, and develop predictive analytics capabilities that support strategic decisions. You will engage across Sales, Marketing and Operations, using SQL and Power BI to build data products and

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on SQL skills and ability to query complex datasets.
• Excellent data storytelling and presentation to influence senior stakeholders.
• Solid commercial sense with proven analytics delivering measurable business outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Own a commercial analytics domain and partner with business leaders to identify opportunities.
• Proactively engage with the business to understand challenges and deliver data-driven insights.
• Use SQL and Power BI to develop data products and actionable insights.
• Translate complex data into clear recommendations that influence decisions at all levels.
• Explore predictive analytics and forecasting to support commercial decisions.

Skills

SQL

Data storytelling

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Lead Data Analyst, Commercial Strategy & Advanced Analytics

Location: Sydney, NSW

Working Arrangement: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Are you a Senior Data Analyst or Data Analytics Manager who loves solving complex business problems but doesn't want to move away from being hands-on?

Have you reached a point in your career where you're being pushed towards people management, but what you really enjoy is getting into the data, identifying opportunities and building solutions that genuinely make a difference?

We're partnering with a global leader who's mission is to improve and save people's lives, to find an exceptional Lead Data Analyst to join its growing Data & Analytics function.

This is an opportunity to combine the strategic influence of a senior leader with the technical ownership of a hands-on analyst, working in a business where your work can positively impact people's lives.

Why This Opportunity Is Different

This isn't a traditional reporting or dashboard-focused analytics role.

The Data & Analytics team operates at the heart of the business, working directly with the President, Vice Presidents and senior leadership to influence major commercial and strategic decisions.

Over the past three years, the team's data products have contributed approximately $millions in annual savings, and they're now expanding their focus into revenue growth, commercial optimisation and predictive analytics.

You'll join a highly engaged, collaborative team where people genuinely care about the work they're doing and the impact it has.

What makes this particularly interesting is the healthcare mission. From improving the efficiency of medical technology distribution to exploring opportunities alongside R&D teams, the work you do can ultimately contribute to better outcomes for patients and healthcare professionals.

What You'll Be Doing

You'll take ownership of a commercial analytics domain, partnering closely with business leaders to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions and develop data-driven solutions.

Rather than waiting for stakeholders to tell you what reports they need, you'll proactively engage with the business to understand their challenges and identify where analytics can deliver measurable value.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Work directly with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain and senior leadership to identify commercial opportunities and shape strategic initiatives.
• Use SQL, Power BI and analytical techniques to investigate complex problems, develop data products and deliver actionable insights.
• Identify opportunities to improve revenue, reduce operational costs, increase efficiency and enhance business performance.
• Translate complex data and technical concepts into clear, compelling recommendations that influence stakeholders at every level.
• Explore predictive analytics, forecasting and more sophisticated analytical approaches to support commercial decision-making.
• Take initiatives from problem identification and stakeholder discovery through to solution development, implementation and measuring outcomes.
• Build trusted relationships across the business, understanding how teams operate and designing solutions that genuinely improve their day-to-day work.
• Stress-test assumptions, challenge existing processes and confidently present alternative approaches supported by data.

Projects You'll Get Exposure To

The team is building a strategic analytics roadmap across the business, with a growing emphasis on Sales and Marketing.

Contributing to initiatives that develop analytical capabilities across the business, including internal education, innovation and collaboration with other regional teams.

What We're Looking For

We're particularly interested in individuals who combine strong technical foundations with commercial acumen and exceptional communication skills.

• Evidence of being pro-active and challenging existing processes and made changes.
• Evidence of improving the business through the data you have analysed or presented that has tangible impact.
• Strong hands-on SQL skills, with the ability to query, manipulate and investigate complex datasets.
• Experience with Power BI or comparable business intelligence and visualisation tools.
• Strong commercial understanding, with examples of analytics delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Experience partnering with senior stakeholders and influencing business decisions.
• Excellent communication, presentation and data storytelling skills.
• Ability to independently manage analytical initiatives from discovery through to delivery.

Highly Desirable

• Experience in Sales, Marketing, pricing, revenue or commercial analytics.
• Familiarity with Data Science concepts, predictive analytics and forecasting.
• Experience working for a business that helps improves people's lives or is a tech for good business.

Who Will Thrive Here?

• We're looking for someone who is naturally curious, commercially minded and genuinely enjoys understanding how businesses work.
• Someone who would rather spend their time solving problems, influencing strategy and building solutions than managing a large team.
• You'll be comfortable walking into a distribution centre to understand operational challenges, sitting with Sales teams to discover what slows them down, and presenting your recommendations to the President or Vice President.
• You'll know when to challenge stakeholders, when to listen and how to build the trust needed to influence meaningful change.
• Above all, you'll be someone who doesn't wait to be given a problem.
• You go looking for opportunities to make things better.

Why Join?

• Genuine support, of course there is an expectation to show initiaitve at the start, but you will be supported at the start to feel welcomed and eased into the business.
• Top scores for employee engagement in this specific team in relation to the wider business.
• A hands-on leader who you will love working with, he goes above and beyond for his team.
• Internal mobility, tonnes of career development and opportunity internally once you join.
• Generous parental leave allocation.

Interested?

We're particularly keen to speak with analysts who can demonstrate how they've proactively identified opportunities and delivered measurable commercial value.

When reaching out, we'd love to hear about the analytical project you're most proud of.

What was the problem? How did you identify it? What did you build? And most importantly, what changed for the business?

If you're a commercially minded analyst who wants to remain hands-on while influencing major strategic decisions and contributing to a meaningful healthcare mission, we'd love to hear from you.