Analytics Product and Programme Manager

Dsfs Ltd; Kirkby-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 56,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited is recruiting for a Senior Data/Analytics Product Lead to drive EM-ACE, turning complex problems into prioritised use cases and maintaining the backlog and roadmap. You will coordinate multidisciplinary delivery, unblock risks and ensure products demonstrate value and learnings across EMAP.

The role requires a senior data professional with knowledge of analytics delivery, product management, benefits realisation and governance in a healthcare

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent senior experience in analytics, data science, digital product delivery, transformation, improvement or operational management.
• Formal training/certification in agile, product management, service design, user research, improvement, benefits realisation or evaluation.
• Significant experience leading delivery of analytics, data science, data products, digital products or intelligence-led transformation in a complex organisation.
• Experience in NHS/healthcare analytics, FDP/Foundry, BI, data science, population health, operational improvement or cross-organisational data collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Lead iterative delivery using product thinking, user stories, prioritised backlogs, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives and feedback loops.
• Connect senior stakeholders, operational users, data scientists, data engineers, analysts, information governance teams and FDP partners so delivery keeps moving.
• Demonstrate value through early usable outputs, adoption evidence, benefit measures, learning loops and a strong business case for scale and sustainability.

Skills

Agile leadership

Product management

Data analytics

Stakeholder management

Backlog management

Education

Masters level qualification or equivalent

Agile/product management certification

Tools

FDP/Foundry

Job description

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Site Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Town Nottinghamshire Salary £55,519 - £63,224 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

The post holder will lead agile, product-led delivery for EM-ACE, ensuring that advanced analytics and data science work is focused on high-value problems, delivered iteratively, adopted by users and evaluated for measurable benefit. This is not a traditional waterfall project management role.
The role requires a senior data professional or transformation leader with strong understanding of analytics/data science delivery, product management, benefits realisation, stakeholder influence and practical organisational delivery.
The post holder will turn complex operational problems into prioritised use cases, maintain the EM-ACE backlog and roadmap, coordinate multidisciplinary delivery, unblock risks and dependencies, and ensure that products demonstrate value, reusability and learning across EMAP.

Main duties of the job

• • Lead the EM-ACE product and delivery operating rhythm: discovery, prioritisation, sprint planning,
  demos, retrospectives, decision logs and benefits tracking.
• • Ensure work focuses on small numbers of high-impact, reusable use cases rather than fixed-scope
  project plans that produce late or theoretical outputs.
• • Connect senior stakeholders, operational users, data scientists, data engineers, analysts, information
  governance teams and FDP partners so that delivery keeps moving.
• • Demonstrate value through early usable outputs, adoption evidence, benefit measures, learning loops
  and a strong month 8 business case for scale and sustainability.

Working for our organisation

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Ltd. (DSFS) is a subsidiary company that’s 100% owned by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

DSFS has just over 900 staff across Soft and Hard Facilities Services, and our corporate services including, ICT, Patient Records, Switchboard, Procurement, Finance and Clinical Engineering. Very much part of the ‘Chesterfield Royal family’, DSFS builds on solid NHS foundations to offer a more commercial approach that’s dynamic, flexible, and proactive.

DSFS are proud to be striving to achieve a truly diverse and inclusive flexible workforce by valuing and welcoming everyone’s abilities, uniqueness, and individuality. All our colleagues have the right to and should be able to feel 100% themselves at work; we believe that all our people add to and should improve our culture and not just fit in with it. By embracing our diverse backgrounds and differences our culture becomes richer and makes us stronger together.

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please read the attached job description that includes further information on the main responsibilities and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Masters level qualification or equivalent senior experience in analytics, data science, digital product delivery, transformation, improvement, operational management or a related field. Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Formal training/certification in agile, product management, service design, user research, improvement, benefits realisation or evaluation. • Professional registration/membership through AphA, BCS, APM, Agile Business Consortium, Product community or similar.
• Significant experience leading delivery of analytics, data science, data products, digital products or intelligence-led transformation in a complex organisation.
• Experience in NHS/healthcare analytics, FDP/Foundry, BI, data science, population health, operational improvement or cross-organisational data collaboration.

Agile and product capability

• Proven ability to lead iterative delivery using product thinking, user stories, prioritised backlogs, sprint planning, demos, retrospectives and feedback loops.
• Experience as product manager, delivery manager, agile lead, service owner or similar for data/analytics/digital products.

Benefits and value

• Experience defining benefits, baselines, adoption metrics, outcome measures, balancing measures and evaluation approaches for change or analytical products.
• Experience producing business cases, value cases, benefit realisation reports, economic evaluations or investment cases.
• Able to build trust, negotiate priorities, handle contentious issues and influence senior clinical, operational, analytical and digital stakeholders.
• Experience working with executives, system partners, regional collaboratives, suppliers or national teams.

Planning and organisation

• Exceptional organisational skills, with evidence of managing complex dependencies, risks, actions, decisions and concurrent workstreams at pace.
• Experience turning around stuck delivery, creating order from ambiguity, or leading delivery in fast moving environments with incomplete information.

Analytical literacy

• Strong understanding of how analytics and data science products are developed, assured, adopted and evaluated, including limitations and risks.
• Hands‑on analytical/coding experience, or prior management of analysts/data scientists/data engineers.

Governance, ethics and IG

• Understanding of information governance, data protection, ethical data use, equality impact, clinical/operational safety and safe deployment of analytical products.
• Experience coordinating DPIAs, data sharing, model governance, equality impact assessment or operational safety review. .

Leadership style and personal attributes

• Highly proactive, practical, resilient and delivery focused. Able to get things done through influence, clarity, relationships and disciplined follow‑through. Evidence of building a high‑trust, learning‑oriented delivery culture across professional or organisational boundaries.
• Evidence of building a high‑trust, learning‑oriented delivery culture across professional or organisational boundaries.

Flexible Working

VISA's and Immigration system

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services Limited currently do not offer a Certificate of Sponsorship, any applications which require sponsorship will not be considered at this point in time.

When DSFS Ltd are able to offer sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK), applicants will be required to provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Derbyshire Support and Facilities Services (‘DSFS’) is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

This post will require a submission for Disclosure to be made to check for any unspent criminal convictions.