People & Culture Data Analyst

Hilton Foods; Huntingdon; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading food processing company in the United Kingdom is looking for a professional to enable data-driven decision-making across the People & Culture function. This role is key in delivering high-quality insights, enhancing organizational performance, and shaping workforce strategies. Key accountabilities include developing dashboards, supporting workforce planning, validating data, and collaborating with business partners to provide analytical solutions. Excellent analytical skills and experience with data governance are essential.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain, and automate dashboards and reports on key metrics.
• Support workforce planning and people strategy initiatives.
• Collaborate with business partners to provide analytical solutions.
• Clean and structure data from multiple sources into insights.
• Monitor data quality and drive improvements in governance.
• Deliver deep-dive analyses for executive decision-making.
• Work with IT/Data teams to influence reporting architecture.

Job description

To enable data-driven decision-making across the People & Culture function by delivering high-quality people insights, reporting, and analysis. This role plays a critical part in shaping workforce strategies, improving employee experience, and enhancing organisational performance by translating data into actionable intelligence.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Develop, maintain, and automate regular dashboards and reports covering key P&C metrics (e.g., headcount, attrition, DEI, engagement, absence, and recruitment).
• Support workforce planning, organisational design, and people strategy initiatives through modelling and scenario analysis.
• Collaborate with P&C Business Partners and functional leads to understand business challenges and provide analytical solutions.
• Clean, validate, and structure data from multiple sources (HRIS, payroll, engagement tools, etc.) into unified insights.
• Monitor data quality and integrity; drive improvements in data governance and consistency across systems.
• Deliver ad hoc deep-dive analyses and visual storytelling to support decision-making at the executive and board levels.
• Work closely with IT/Data teams to influence architecture decisions impacting people data and reporting.