Business Intelligence Manager

International Schools Partnership; London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in education is seeking a Business Intelligence Manager to enhance data-driven insights across various functional areas. The successful candidate will be responsible for developing reports and dashboards, ensuring data integrity, and working closely with stakeholders to meet business intelligence needs. This hybrid role is based in Wimbledon, London, and requires strong skills in data analysis, with a focus on Power BI.

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal skills and confidence in stakeholder engagement.
• Proven experience in leading data-driven business intelligence initiatives.
• Ability to handle evolving data requirements effectively.

Responsibilities

• Work with teams to clarify and define data requirements.
• Conduct QA on reports to ensure data accuracy.
• Create wireframes and design business intelligence reports.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Data analysis

Business intelligence

Stakeholder management

Power BI

SQL

DevOps

Education sector experience

Job description

Description

ISP Business Intelligence Manager – Role Profile

Purpose of Role

This role is responsible for bringing group-wide performance data to life, ensuring it is fit for purpose against a backdrop of an increasing number of schools and evolving business intelligence requirements.

Specific areas covered by this role may include HR, Learning, Finance, Health & Safety, ESG, NPS and Admissions.

The role is hybrid, office located in Wimbledon, London.

ISP Principles

Begin with our children and students. Our children and students are at the heart of what we do. Simply, their success is our success. Wellbeing and safety are both essential for learners and learning. Therefore, we are consistent in identifying potential safeguarding and Health & Safety issues and acting and following up on all concerns appropriately.

Treat everyone with care and respect. We look after one another, embrace similarities and differences and promote the well-being of self and others.

Operate effectively. We focus relentlessly on the things that are most important and will make the most difference. We apply school policies and procedures and embody the shared ideas of our community.

Are financially responsible. We make financial choices carefully based on the needs of the children, students, and our schools.

Learn continuously. Getting better is what drives us. We positively engage with personal and professional development and school improvement.

ISP BI Manager Key Responsibilities

• Work closely with functional teams to ensure data requirements are clear and consistently defined and understood and the process for doing so is consistent with other data requirements.
• Identify the relevant business processes and associated data sources relevant for meeting data requirements and work with the wider BI team and Data Engineers to ensure organisational discipline around data capture.
• Perform testing (QA) on reports to validate that Centralised Insights matches Databricks and source systems.
• Create wireframes and lead the design of business intelligence reports and dashboards relevant for end users.
• Take responsibility for developing insights from analysis of the underlying data and developing the organisational capability to use intelligence and insights in decision making.
• Responsible for ensuring relevant stakeholders derive sufficient use/value out of the available intelligence (end user training).
• Ensure that KPIs (Data Points) and reports are well documented and understood by the wider business.

Skills, Qualifications and Experience

• Excellent interpersonal skills, self-motivated and confident to build relationships with a variety of stakeholders.
• Experience in leading the use of data to create business intelligence that leads to insight, decision making and action.
• Ability to manage the evolving data requirements,
• Collaborating with senior business leaders and functional / regional heads to put sufficient definition to those requirements for them to be actionable.
• Experience of using Power BI as the tool of choice for data analytics and insight,
• An understanding of SQL/database management and
• The ability to lead adoption of a Power BI reporting solution across a portfolio organisation.
• Exposure to DevOps and Databricks would be beneficial.
• Previous experience of working in the education sector would be advantageous.

ISP Commitment to Safeguarding Principles

ISP is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All post holders are subject to appropriate vetting procedures, including an online due diligence search, references and satisfactory Criminal Background Checks or equivalent covering the previous 10 years’ employment history.

ISP Commitment to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging

ISP is committed to strengthening our inclusive culture by identifying, hiring, developing, and retaining high-performing teammates regardless of gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and gender expression, age, disability status, neurodivergence, socio-economic background or other demographic characteristics. Candidates who share our vision and principles and are interested in contributing to the success of ISP through this role are strongly encouraged to apply.