Health Analytics Lead

British Heart Foundation; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Benefits package

Job summary

British Heart Foundation is recruiting a Health Analytics Lead to shape how data informs decisions across the UK. You will lead population health analytics, transform complex evidence into clear insights, and support strategic priorities within the Health Insights team.

Based in London with hybrid working, you will manage a small team of analysts, drive data governance, and deliver public-facing outputs while collaborating with policy and media teams to maximise impact on cardiovascular health.

Qualifications

• A degree in a quantitative field such as medical statistics, epidemiology, health services research, biomedical research, or equivalent experience (postgraduate qualification desirable).
• Strong experience in a senior analytical role, ideally within a health-related environment, with expertise in population health, epidemiology, or healthcare analytics.
• Proven experience working with large, complex datasets, using a range of data manipulation, analysis, and visualisation tools.
• Strong experience delivering high-quality, public-facing analysis and translating complex statistical and scientific evidence into clear, accessible insights for varied audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and engage both technical and non-technical audiences, including in external or media settings.
• Experience developing dashboards, models, and reporting tools to support decision‑making and promote data‑driven practices.
• Experience line managing or developing analysts, maintaining high analytical standards and supporting capability growth.
• You’ll bring strong technical expertise in tools such as R or Python, SQL, and visualisation platforms such as Power BI or Tableau, alongside advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• You’ll be highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines, with strong analytical thinking and attention to detail. A collaborative and proactive approach is essential, as is the confidence to challenge thinking and champion an evidence‑based culture.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of high-quality population health and healthcare analytics, ensuring robust, evidence-based insights inform strategic priorities, policy development and organisational decision-making.
• Translate complex statistical and scientific evidence into clear, compelling insights that influence decisions and drive meaningful action.
• Lead analytical activity across large, complex datasets, including data extraction, preparation, modelling, and visualisation, producing impactful public-facing outputs such as reports and technical explainers.
• Communicate insights to a wide range of audiences, including senior stakeholders, policy teams, and the media.
• Deliver a core health intelligence service to the Medical Directorate and wider organisation, manage the statistics sign-off process, respond to complex queries, and support reporting approaches.
• Line manage and develop analysts, fostering a high-performing team while championing best practice in data management, reproducibility, and statistical governance.

Skills

Leadership & people management

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical thinking

Communication

Education

Degree in quantitative field

Tools

R

Python

SQL

Power BI

Job description

The opportunity

As a Health Analytics Lead, you'll play a key role in shaping how data and evidence are used to inform understanding, influence decision-making, and drive action on cardiovascular disease across the UK. Working within the Health Insights team in the Medical Directorate, you'll ensure the British Heart Foundation (BHF) remains intelligence-led across its operations.

This is a senior analytical role where you'll lead the delivery of high-quality population health and healthcare analytics, ensuring robust, evidence-based insights inform strategic priorities, policy development and organisational decision-making. You'll translate complex statistical and scientific evidence into clear, compelling insights that influence decisions and drive meaningful action.

You'll lead analytical activity across large, complex datasets, including data extraction, preparation, modelling, and visualisation, producing impactful public-facing outputs such as reports and technical explainers. You'll effectively communicate insights to a wide range of audiences, including senior stakeholders, policy teams, and the media.

You'll deliver a core health intelligence service to the Medical Directorate and wider organisation, manage the statistics sign-off process, respond to complex queries, and support the development of knowledge management and reporting approaches. Working collaboratively across teams, including data science, you'll maximise the value of data and analytics across BHF.

As a leader, you'll line manage and develop analysts, fostering a high-performing team while championing best practice in data management, reproducibility, and statistical governance.

About you

As our ideal candidate, you'll have:

• A degree in a quantitative field such as medical statistics, epidemiology, health services research, biomedical research, or equivalent experience (postgraduate qualification desirable).
• Strong experience in a senior analytical role, ideally within a health-related environment, with expertise in population health, epidemiology, or healthcare analytics.
• Proven experience working with large, complex datasets, using a range of data manipulation, analysis, and visualisation tools.
• Strong experience delivering high-quality, public-facing analysis and translating complex statistical and scientific evidence into clear, accessible insights for varied audiences.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders and engage both technical and non-technical audiences, including in external or media settings.
• Experience developing dashboards, models, and reporting tools to support decision‑making and promote data‑driven practices.
• Experience line managing or developing analysts, maintaining high analytical standards and supporting capability growth.
• You’ll bring strong technical expertise in tools such as R or Python, SQL, and visualisation platforms such as Power BI or Tableau, alongside advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel and PowerPoint.
• You’ll be highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and deliver to tight deadlines, with strong analytical thinking and attention to detail. A collaborative and proactive approach is essential, as is the confidence to challenge thinking and champion an evidence‑based culture.

If you're a driven analytics expert looking to make a meaningful impact in the fight against heart and circulatory disease, we'd love to hear from you.

Working arrangements

This is a hybrid role, where your work will be split between your home and at least one day per week, on average, in our London Office. This may vary from time to time, so you will need to work in a flexible way to unlock your best work for our cause.

Belonging at BHF

By embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive environment, we strengthen our ability to achieve our mission of saving and improving lives, ensuring our work reflects and serves the needs of every community across the UK.

To hear from our people, check out Belonging at BHF.

Our people are at the heart of everything we do. By funding research across six decades, we've helped keep millions of hearts beating and millions of families together. We're investing in ground‑breaking research that will get us closer than ever to a world where everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Benefits and development

At BHF, we offer a comprehensive range of benefits designed to support our colleagues' wellbeing and professional growth.

To find out more about our benefits you can download the Benefits document at the bottom of this page or check out our Benefits and Development pages.

Need more help balancing your work and home life? Talk to us about what flexibility is available at the application or interview stage.

Interview process

The interview process may take place in‑person or virtually via MS Teams.