People Insight Partner

Aster Group UK; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aster Group is seeking a talented People Insight Partner to lead our people analytics capability. You will connect People teams with central data specialists, ensuring accurate, insightful workforce data that drives action across the business.

You'll champion Power BI adoption, transform complex data into clear narratives, and deliver governance and reporting aligned to business priorities. This hybrid role requires occasional travel within the operating region.

Qualifications

• Experience in people analytics, workforce planning, or BI.
• Strong Power BI dashboard development and storytelling.
• Excellent analytical, communication and stakeholder skills.
• Experience with HR systems and GDPR knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Lead the development of people insight and analytics across Aster.
• Champion the adoption and effective use of Power BI within the People function.
• Transform complex workforce data into clear narratives for decision-making.
• Deliver insight into workforce trends, risks, opportunities and performance.
• Support workforce planning, organisational design and transformation initiatives.
• Drive governance, data quality and consistent reporting definitions.
• Deliver statutory reporting including gender pay gap and external submissions.
• Merge internal data with external benchmarking for context and recommendations.
• Coach colleagues to become confident users of workforce data and self-service reporting.

Skills

Power BI

Data analytics

Workforce planning

Excel

Tools

Power BI Desktop

Job description

Location: Flexible - able to travel within our operating region

Hours: 37 hours per week

At Aster, we're transforming how we use people data to drive better decisions, improve colleague experiences and support our ambitious organisational goals. We're looking for a talented People Insight Partner to lead our people analytics capability, bringing workforce data to life through compelling insight, meaningful storytelling and innovative reporting solutions.

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who is passionate about using data to make a difference. You'll be the trusted expert connecting our People teams, leaders and central data specialists, ensuring workforce data is accurate, insightful and drives action across the business.

What You'll Be Doing

As our People Insight Partner, you'll be the voice of the People data domain within Aster's hub-and-spoke data operating model. You'll champion the use of data across the People function, helping colleagues and leaders move beyond reporting to understand the story behind the numbers.

Working closely with Business Intelligence, Data Governance and IT colleagues, you'll help shape and continuously improve our people reporting landscape, ensuring data is trusted, well-governed and aligned to business priorities.

You'll:

• Lead the development of people insight and analytics across Aster.
• Champion the adoption and effective use of Power BI within the People function.
• Transform complex workforce data into clear, engaging narratives that support strategic and operational decision-making.
• Deliver meaningful insight into workforce trends, risks, opportunities and performance.
• Support workforce planning, organisational design and transformation initiatives through modelling and forecasting.
• Drive confidence in people data through robust governance, quality standards and consistent reporting definitions.
• Deliver statutory and regulatory reporting, including Gender Pay Gap and other external submissions.
• Combine internal people data with external market intelligence and benchmarking to provide valuable context and recommendations.
• Coach and support colleagues to become confident users of workforce data and self-service reporting tools.

About You

You’ll be an experienced analytics professional who combines technical expertise with strong communication and influencing skills. You enjoy translating business questions into actionable insight and are passionate about helping organisations make smarter decisions through data.

We're looking for someone who has:

• Experience in people analytics, workforce planning, business intelligence, statistics or a related field.
• Strong Power BI expertise, including dashboard development, data visualisation and insight storytelling.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify trends and make evidence-based recommendations.
• Experience working with HR systems and people data.
• A strong understanding of data governance, data quality and reporting standards.
• Experience collaborating with both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Advanced Excel and data manipulation skills.
• Knowledge of GDPR and UK employment data reporting requirements.
• The confidence to challenge, influence and build credible relationships at all levels.
• Excellent report-writing and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate complex information in a simple and engaging way.

This is a hybrid role, enabling you to base yourself from home if you wish. Travel will be required from time to time so being happy to travel within our operating region is a must.

Our operating region includes Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall and London.

What’s in it for me

We invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:

• Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needs
• A focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash plan
• We invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworks
• Defined Contribution Pension and attached life assurance
• Volunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give back
• Savings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots more
• Enhanced leave
• We celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiatives

We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.

All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.