Commercial Data & Insight Manager

Enginuity; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading charity in skills development for engineering is seeking a Commercial Data and Insight Manager. This role involves managing and analyzing data assets to support strategic goals, delivering insights that inform decision-making, and enhancing data quality. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in data analytics and management, proficiency with tools like SQL and Power BI, and excellent communication skills. The position is remote-based with occasional national travel and offers a competitive salary plus comprehensive benefits.

Benefits

25 days paid holiday plus bank holidays

Defined contribution pension

Life assurance

Healthcare Cash Plan

Employee Assistance Programme

Paid time off to volunteer

Qualifications

• Strong background in data quality and analytics.
• Experience in financial or commercial environments.
• Ability to think strategically and communicate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Deliver strategic data analysis and insight for decision-making.
• Enhance dashboards and performance measurement frameworks.
• Lead analysis of income, market trends, and organisational performance.

Skills

Data analysis

Data management

Statistical analysis

Problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or related

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

Commercial Data and Insight Manager

Permanent, Full time: 35 hours per week

Salary: £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits

Home based in England, Scotland or Wales with occasional national travel

About the role

The Commercial Data & Insight Manager manages and analyses EAL’s data assets to support strategic and operational goals. This role covers the full data lifecycle, including forecasting, market analysis, and scenario modelling. The manager works with senior leadership to align financial plans and drive performance. They ensure data quality, compliance, and continuous improvement. By turning complex data into actionable insights, the Manager influences decisions and promotes data-driven innovation.

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be responsible for delivering strategic data analysis and insight that shapes both operational and long‑term decision-making. This includes leading analysis of income, volumes, market trends, and organisational performance, as well as developing advanced analytics, forecasting, and scenario modelling to anticipate risks and opportunities. You’ll translate complex data into clear, compelling narratives for senior leaders and cross‑functional teams, helping them understand impacts and make informed decisions in response to regulatory, market and business change.

You’ll also own and continuously enhance dashboards, reporting, KPIs, and performance measurement frameworks that support planning, budgeting, and performance management. Acting as a strategic partner to leadership, Finance, and business units, you’ll ensure data quality, governance, and integrity while co‑creating data‑driven solutions. In parallel, you’ll build data capability across the organisation by providing guidance, developing skills, and promoting best practices to embed a strong, data‑driven culture.

What we’re looking for

We’re looking for an experienced data and analytics professional with a strong background in awarding organisations or End Point Assessment Organisations, ideally in a senior or lead analyst role within a financial or commercial environment. You’ll bring experience across data quality, analytics, data management, or financial accounting, with advanced capability in data analysis, cleansing, transformation, and validation. Strong technical skills are essential, including experience with analytics and data management tools such as SQL, Power BI, or Tableau, alongside proficiency in financial modelling, accounting, predictive modelling, statistical analysis, or machine learning. You’ll also have a solid understanding of data governance, privacy, ethical data use, risk assessment, and data quality frameworks, supported by familiarity with relevant industry standards and regulations.

Equally important is your ability to think strategically and communicate effectively. You’ll be able to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights and KPIs for senior stakeholders, aligning analysis with business strategy, operations, and long‑term goals. With strong analytical and problem‑solving skills, you’ll spot patterns, trends, and anomalies, manage multiple priorities, and deliver high‑quality outputs to deadlines. You’ll be a confident collaborator with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, a strong customer focus, and a commitment to continuous learning. Helping to drive data quality improvements, influence decision‑making, and embed best practice across the organisation.

Other skills which would be desirable however not needed to apply for the role

A degree level qualification or equivalent in a relevant field such as Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Management, and/or financial accounting discipline would be desirable. As well as relevant certifications in data management, data quality, analytics, or risk management (e.g., CDMP, CISA, Risk Management Certification).

Working for EAL/Enginuity Group

We offer a supportive work environment and a comprehensive benefits package.

Equity, diversity and inclusion are integral to everything we do, and we are committed to being an inclusive workplace where all colleagues feel valued and able to be themselves. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and experiences.

Many of our team work flexibly, and we would be happy to discuss how flexible working could work for you and the business. If you are shortlisted for interview, please let us know so we can explore this together.

We also welcome discussions about any reasonable adjustments that may support you throughout the recruitment process.

Remote/home based working at Enginuity

Your working hours will be 35 per week, working 9am until 5pm with a 1 hour lunch.

As a home‑based employee you will fulfil your job responsibilities from home. Interactions with work and colleagues will be from a virtual environment. Depending on your role you will be required to either have some occasional travel or UK national travel. This travel will be required to allow you to fulfil different parts of your role and to meet colleagues on a quarterly basis. Other meetings that might require you to travel are events such as all colleague away days, training, and project work. Please review the advert to gain this insight to how much travel is expected. Also, ask at interview stage to confirm the frequency of travel and distance.

The company will provide you with the IT equipment required to carry out your role but it is a requirement that you provide all the necessary facilities for working from home; including broadband, home office, desk and chair.

Our benefits include:

• Competitive externally benchmarked salaries
• A defined contribution pension (4.5% employer/employee contribution).
• 25 days paid holiday (increasing after 1 years’ service to 26 days and 2 years to 27 days), plus bank holidays.
• 3 additional paid days for company shutdown over Christmas and New Year
• A holiday buy scheme - option to buy up 5 days extra days holiday per year
• Life assurance of 2x your salary
• A Healthcare Cash Plan so you can claim back the costs of everyday health care such as dental, optical and physiotherapy. Plus, a virtual 24 hour GP service.
• Paid membership of a Professional Body to support your continuous development.
• An Employee Assistance Programme offering free confidential advice and support
• Wellbeing programmes, access to a free wellbeing website and wellbeing app
• Paid time off to volunteer in your local community or to support wider charitable causes
• A comprehensive discounts and benefits scheme, with discounts at many high street and online retailers
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, shared parental, adoption and dependant leave
• Access to training and development opportunities

About Us

The Enginuity Group exists to find new ways to close skills gaps in UK engineering and manufacturing in order to create a more productive sector at the forefront of designing, making and maintaining the solutions to society’s greatest challenges. Enginuity is a charity that has created a ‘common language’ for engineering and manufacturing occupation and skills data, to help employers have the right skills at the right time to adapt faster to change.

We use this unique approach to sector data, alongside our deep understanding of the skills needs of UK engineering and manufacturing businesses, to:

• support engineering and manufacturing employers in discovering new sources of skills;
• provide insights and recommendations on the skills that are increasingly in demand so businesses, sectors and government can plan ahead;
• and alongside EAL, the Enginuity Group’s specialist Awarding Organisation, End Point Assessment Organisation and skills partner for industry, connect organisations to ensure technical education is fit for purpose and keeps pace with changing industry needs, new technologies and the net‑zero transition.

Further Information

If you have any questions, a request for further information, or would like to request this information in an alternative format, our Recruitment Team will be happy to help. Email us at [e-mail].

As part of our commitment to diversity, equality, and inclusion, you’ll receive our Equal Opportunities Survey. We’d greatly appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to complete it - it helps us monitor and improve our recruitment practices.

We’re unable support UK relocation or to sponsor a visa for this role.

Depending on the volume of applications, the closing date for this position may be extended or brought forward.