Performance Analyst

Beighton; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 34,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Generous holiday entitlement

Flexible working opportunities

Job summary

Sheffield City Council is building its Customer Experience Capability to improve how residents experience services and how colleagues are supported. This role leads analytical work across customer journeys and services, delivering dashboards and actionable insights to drive improvements.

You will work with managers and technical specialists to turn data into practical recommendations, supervise others, and help establish a growing Customer Intelligence function.

Qualifications

• Background in performance, data or business intelligence in public sector setting.
• Experience designing and improving performance measures, reports and dashboards.
• Translate data into concise, non-technical briefings.
• Work with managers and teams to develop analytical responses.
• Use evidence to shape decisions and challenge assumptions.
• Maintain data accuracy, documentation and quality assurance.
• Track benefits and improvements.
• Supervise or manage the work and development of others.

Responsibilities

• Develop dashboards and reporting products giving managers a clear view of performance.
• Investigate patterns in demand, outcomes, service variation and avoidable contact.
• Identify emerging pressures, performance risks and opportunities for improvement.
• Assess whether service, digital, journey and knowledge improvements deliver benefits.
• Improve the quality, consistency and reliability of performance information.
• Present complex findings as clear conclusions, options and actions.
• Collaborate with colleagues across services, supported by evidence.
• Supervise, support and develop colleagues.

Skills

Dashboard design

Data analysis

Performance reporting

Stakeholder engagement

Supervising staff

Evidence-based decisions

Job description

The job requirements are detailed below. Where applicable the skills, qualifications and memberships required for this job have also been included.

Sheffield City Council is building its Customer Experience Capability, a team focused on improving how residents experience council services and how colleagues are supported to deliver them.

The team brings together customer journeys, insight, workforce development, equalities, engagement and communications. Its purpose is to help the Council work in a more joined-up and customer-focused way, using feedback, data, digital tools, and practical improvement methods to make services easier to access and better to use.

Help us turn customer data into better services

We are looking for an experienced Performance Analyst to join our developing Customer Intelligence function.

This is an opportunity to take a leading role in helping the Council understand how customers contact us, how effectively services respond and where changes could deliver better outcomes. You will bring together information from different customer and operational systems, identify what lies behind changes in performance and make practical recommendations that support improvement.

Your work will cover key customer contact points, including the Core Customer Hub and other front-door services. You will help colleagues move beyond reporting activity and volumes towards a clearer understanding of customer outcomes, emerging risks, avoidable contact and the measurable impact of service changes.

What you will be doing

You will lead analytical work across a range of customer journeys, contact channels and operational services, including:

• Developing dashboards and reporting products that give managers a clear and balanced view of performance
• Investigating patterns in demand, customer outcomes, service variation and repeat or avoidable contact
• Identifying emerging pressures, performance risks and opportunities for improvement
• Assessing whether service, digital, journey and knowledge improvements are producing the intended benefits
• Improving the quality, consistency and reliability of customer performance information
• Presenting complex findings as clear conclusions, options and recommended actions
• Working and advising colleagues at all levels from a range of services, supported by evidence
• Supervising, supporting and developing colleagues

What we are looking for

You will have a strong background in performance, data or business intelligence work, ideally gained within a complex operational, customer-facing or public service setting.

You should be able to demonstrate experience of:

• Designing and improving performance measures, reports and dashboards
• Examining data to identify trends, risks, causes of demand and opportunities for service improvement
• Turning detailed analysis into concise, accessible briefings for people without a technical background
• Working with managers, operational teams and technical specialists to define questions and develop useful analytical responses
• Using evidence to shape decisions and challenge assumptions constructively
• Maintaining high standards of data accuracy, documentation and quality assurance
• Tracking of benefits and improvements
• Supporting, supervising or managing the work and development of others

This role offers the opportunity to help shape a growing Customer Intelligence function and influence how customer evidence is used across the Council. You will work with colleagues from a wide range of services, helping them understand performance, spot problems earlier and make changes that improve the customer experience.

The post operates on a hybrid basis with an expectation to work from the office for a minimum of 40% of the contracted hours to facilitate networking, planned collaboration, meetings and service events.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Guaranteed Interview scheme, applicants who are disabled, care leavers, or armed forces veterans will be guaranteed an interview if they meet the essential criteria and indicate their eligibility on the application form. Sometimes, if lots of people apply, we might not be able to interview everyone who qualifies for the Guarantee. In these cases, we’ll interview the candidates who best meet the essential criteria for the job.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.

Equality of pay is extremely important to us. All roles at Sheffield City Council are going through an evaluation process which may result in changes to some pay arrangements from 2026. Read about the new job evaluation process to be introduced at Sheffield City Council.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all individuals, ensuring a safe and supportive environment for everyoneand where appropriate to the role the successful applicant will be required to undertake relevant safeguarding checks.