Lead Analyst

Anglian Water Services; Peterborough; Hybrid; GBP 44,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading water services company is seeking a Lead Analyst to manage a team that maximizes value from data across various processes. The successful candidate will champion continuous improvement and build effective relationships with stakeholders. Key responsibilities include providing line management to data analysts, improving data systems, and delivering analytical insights to strengthen performance. This role offers a competitive salary, flexible working hours, and attractive benefits, including a pension scheme, private healthcare, and generous holiday allowance.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Private healthcare

Annual bonus scheme

Volunteer opportunities

26 days holiday plus Bank Holidays

Life cover and personal accident cover

Flexible benefits

Paid time off for illness

Free parking at all locations

Family-friendly policies

Qualifications

• Strong maths and IT skills are required.
• Experience with relevant data types and multi-disciplinary teams is essential.
• Promotes innovation and best practices in analytics.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Data Analyst team to maximize data value.
• Support Reporting and Analytics Manager in building relationships with regulators.
• Maintain product metadata and advocate for improvements.
• Explore ways to enhance reporting efficiency.
• Build data visualizations for effective decision making.

Skills

Logical thinking

Analytical skills

Effective communication

Influencing skills

Coaching skills

Data translation into insights

Education

Degree or equivalent

Job description

Lead Analyst

Circa £43,755 dependent on skills and experience
Permanent, full time (37 hours) with flexibility for part time
Huntingdon / Peterborough

Make every drop of your potential count, join our team!

The Q uality Environment and Assurance Lead Analyst will lead our Data Analyst team to maximise value through our systems, processes and data across the Directorate . You will ensure that your team uphold the highest standards of impartiality, while unlocking greater value from our data to inform decision-making and strengthen performance.

In this role, you will cultivate a collaborative and inclusive team culture, championing continuous improvement in both our practices and our systems. Through clear development pathways and empowering leadership, you will motivate the team to deliver excellence and innovation.

You will you support the Reporting and Analytics Manager to build trusted relationships with regulators, continually enhance our data systems, and drive forward improvements in our systems, processes and reporting. By leading the team to extract meaningful insights and maximise the impact of our data, you will help ensure our scientific and regulatory teams operate at full capacity, maintaining impartiality, resilience, and consistently high-quality service delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Line management and coaching to our Data Analysts and Associate Analyst.
• Continually exploring and building the team's ability to add value by translating data into insights.
• Maintain product metadata and advocate for improvements.
• Seeking opportunities to continually improve the efficiency of our reporting and analytics products and c oordinate delivery and maintenance of analytics products.
• Build and support data visualisations for effective decision making alongside streamlining our regulatory reporting requirements.

As a valued employee you’ll be entitled to:

• A competitive pension scheme where we double-match your contributions up to 6%
• Private healthcare for your peace of mind
• An annual bonus scheme
• The opportunity to volunteer in your local community
• 2 6 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), increasing with service, with the option to swap Christmas and Easter for religious holidays
• Life cover (8x your salary) and personal accident cover (up to 5x your salary)
• Flexible benefits to support your well-being and lifestyle
• Paid time off for illness, both physical and mental
• Free parking at all office locations, sites, and leisure parks
• Excellent family-friendly policies, including 26 weeks of full pay for maternity/adoption leave and 4 weeks of paternity/partner pay, with the opportunity for shared parental leave

What does it take to be successful?

• Degree or equivalent; strong maths and IT skills.
• Experience with relevant data types and multi-disciplinary teams.
• Logical, analytical, and effective communicator.
• Strong influencing, negotiation, and coaching skills.
• Promotes innovation, best practice, and continuous improvement.

Inclusion at Anglian Water:

Inclusion is for everyone and we are an equal opportunity employer, which means we’ll consider all suitably qualified applicants regardless of gender identity or expression, ethnic origin, nationality, religion or beliefs, age, sexual orientation, disability status or any other protected characteristic. We recruit and develop our people based on merit and their passion for creating better outcomes, and we’re committed to creating an environment where all our colleagues feel they belong.

Closing date: 5th January 2025

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