Data & Insight Manager – Lead Trusted Analytics & Decisions

Incommunities; Bradford; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 66,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Social Housing Pension Scheme with up‑

up to 10% employer contribution

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Cycle to work scheme

Mental Health First Aiders

Mindful Employer

Menopause Friendly Accreditation

Training and qualification support

Employee wellbeing discounts

Local gym membership discounts

Job summary

Incommunities in Bradford is seeking a Data and Insight Manager to lead data and insight workflows, ensuring trusted data, self-service reporting and evidence-led decision making across the organisation. You will oversee daily team activity, requirements, and governance to deliver impactful reporting and analytics.

The role requires experience in managing data demand within a complex organisation and strong collaboration with senior stakeholders to drive performance improvements and data

Qualifications

• Experience of managing data, reporting, insight or business intelligence demand in a complex organisation.
• Experience of coordinating priorities, requirements, delivery plans, risks, dependencies and stakeholder expectations.
• Previous experience of managing or developing a team, with a focus on quality, delivery and continuous improvement.
• Working with business stakeholders to define reporting, insight, data quality or performance requirements.
• Improving processes, governance or ways of working so data and insight activity is more transparent, prioritised and outcome focused.
• Working with senior colleagues and service leads to support evidence-led decision making and organisational performance improvement.
• Strong planning, coordination and prioritisation skills, with the ability to manage competing demand and maintain a clear delivery backlog.
• Strong analytical thinking, with the ability to understand data quality issues, dependencies, risks and the value of insight to services.
• Knowledge of how trusted data and insight support customer outcomes, regulatory assurance and business decision making.
• Right to work in the UK - Visa sponsorship is not available.

Responsibilities

• Own and manage the Data & Insight demand intake process, ensuring requests have clear business sponsorship, requirements, outcomes and acceptance criteria.
• Coordinate triage, prioritisation and backlog management across reporting, analysis, data quality, regulatory and transformation activity.
• Maintain visibility of work in progress, dependencies, blockers, risks and benefits through agreed reporting routes.
• Provide day-to-day management of Data & Insight team workflow, capacity planning and delivery priorities.
• Support and develop team members, encouraging consistent standards, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.
• Ensure data and reporting requests follow agreed governance, prioritisation and approval routes.
• Escalate risks, dependencies, data quality concerns, delivery conflicts and resourcing pressures through the appropriate governance forums.
• Support adoption of consistent data standards, data ownership, data dictionary activity and use of reporting and insight.
• Contribute to the development of self-service reporting, Microsoft Fabric readiness, AI governance and improved organisational data maturity.

Skills

Data management

BI demand management

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Delivery planning

Data governance

Analytical thinking

Job description

Incommunities in Bradford is seeking a Data and Insight Manager to lead data and insight workflows, ensuring trusted data, self-service reporting and evidence-led decision making across the organisation. You will oversee daily team activity, requirements, and governance to deliver impactful reporting and analytics.

The role requires experience in managing data demand within a complex organisation and strong collaboration with senior stakeholders to drive performance improvements and data