Senior Data Analyst

Southern Water; Brighton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the water and waste industry seeks a Senior Data Analyst to develop analytics solutions that drive business enhancements. The role involves collaborating with various teams, mentoring junior analysts, and leveraging tools like Power BI and Alteryx to influence change through data. This position offers a hybrid work model with a focus on professional development and benefits like a pension scheme and performance-related bonuses.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Health cash plan cover

Free annual flu jab

Pension contributions up to 11%

Employee assistance program

Company and performance-related bonus

Life assurance equal to 4x salary

Cycle to work scheme

Discounts with over 800 retailers

Qualifications

• Experience in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics or related roles.
• Strong knowledge of analytical tools and techniques.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and deploy data and analytics products.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor junior analysts.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand analytics needs.

Skills

Critical thinking

Dynamic problem solving

Data storytelling

Analytical skills

Tools

Power BI

Alteryx

Python

R

Job description

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Location: Falmer (Brighton) – Hybrid - occasional office visits

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: 37 hours

Are you ready to make a difference in the water & waste industry?

The Senior Data Analyst partners with business units across Water, Waste, and Customer functions to develop analytics products that uncover insights, identify trends and anomalies, and highlight opportunities for improvement. By applying advanced data and analytical methods, you will help answer critical business questions and drive strategic and operational enhancements.

You will require a understanding of the business domains supported, allowing the team to proactively identify high-impact analytics opportunities. In addition to delivering analytical solutions, you will work closely with the wider team function to support business engagement, co-design solutions, manage delivery, and ensure alignment with data governance standards.

As a senior member of the team, you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior analysts—promoting best practices in data preparation, analysis, and communication. Proficiency in tools such as Power BI, Alteryx, and R/Python is essential, along with strong skills in statistical modelling.

Effective communication and data storytelling are critical to engaging stakeholders, influencing decisions, and driving change. You will also be involved in working collaboratively with other teams—such as Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Platform & Operations, and Data Science—to ensure alignment, share knowledge, and deliver joined-up data solutions that add value across the organisation.

Responsibilities to include:

• Working alongside key stakeholders to understand strategic goals and analytics needs to shape work
• Design ,Develop and deploy data and analytics products to support business outcomes
• Technical Leadership of Data Analyst to guide their work
• Continuous personal and department wide development and improvement

Skills and experience needed:

• Curious – interested in asking questions about what, how or why
• Organised and capable of managing competing priorities
• Passionate about influencing change through data
• Able to design and develop complex, end to end analytics products with Stakeholders and teams
• Drive strategic change by influencing business processes through intelligent decision support, leveraging data storytelling to present compelling, insight-driven narratives.
• Critical thinking
• Dynamic problem solving
• Proactive approach to learning and exploring new technologies

Technical:

• Experience working in Business Intelligence, Data Analytics or related roles,
• Demonstrable experience in driving data informed decisions
• Understanding of Agile practices in a development environment
• Experience in data and analytics technologies such as Alteryx, Power BI or similar such as Tableau and other modern visualisation platforms
• Experience in coding and querying languages such as Python or R
• Strong grasp of statistical methods, hypothesis testing, regression and forecasting
• Experimental design and causal inference

What Do We Offer?

• 25 days annual leave+ Bank Holidays.
• Health cash plan cover (with options to upgrade for family coverage).
• Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
• Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
• An employee assistance program.
• A network of sports and social clubs.
• Company and performance-related bonus.
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary.
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service).
• Health Cash Plan.
• Two paid volunteering days a year.
• Occupational health service.
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers.
• Digital GP service.
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.
• Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options.
• Cycle to work scheme.

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.

All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.