Senior Information Manager | NHS England

NHS England; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A national health service organization in the UK is seeking a Senior Information Manager for the North Region, responsible for managing analytics and leading the business intelligence team. This role requires excellent leadership and analytical skills, with experience in people management, to support and influence stakeholders effectively. The successful candidate will work collaboratively to enhance healthcare services and ensure high-quality analytics delivery. The position is open until December 11, 2025.

Qualifications

• Experience in people management and leadership within a matrix management model.
• Competent in using various analytical techniques to enhance decision-making.
• Ability to communicate effectively and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage the provision of analytics to stakeholders.
• Lead the North integrated BI team to deliver professional analytics services.
• Ensure stakeholders utilize self-serve platforms to maximize data and intelligence value.

Skills

People management

Analytical tools

Communication skills

Numerical analysis

Stakeholder management

Tools

R

Python

Job description

Senior Information Manager – North Region (Band 8a)

Directorate: Commissioning – North Region
Base: Liverpool / Newcastle / Rotherham (with regional travel)

The postholder will manage the provision of analytics to stakeholders and support the delivery of the North integrated BI team responsibilities. The postholder has responsibility for the specification, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data and intelligence. Providing line management for the team and to co‑ordinating the team workload and priorities ensuring delivery of a professional, high quality and high performing analytics services that supports North Stakeholders.

The Senior Information Manager will be responsible for a group of stakeholders based on a sub‑regional footprint. They will also lead on the delivery of BI services for specific programme of care groups and/or clinical networks. The post holder will work as part of the North integrated BI team, taking a lead for managing the successful delivery of the service, managing the team priorities and workloads from scoping through to successful completion.

Our work supports the NHS to deliver high quality services for patients and best value for taxpayers. Our staff bring expertise across hundreds of specialisms — including clinical, operational, commissioning, technology, data science, cyber security, software engineering, education, and commercial — enabling us to design and deliver high‑quality NHS services. We lead the NHS in England by:

• Enabling local systems and providers to improve the health of their people and patients and reduce health inequalities
• Making the NHS a great place to work, where our people can make a difference and achieve their potential
• Working collaboratively to ensure our healthcare workforce has the right knowledge, skills, values and behaviours to deliver accessible, compassionate care
• Optimising the use of digital technology, research, and innovation
• Delivering value for money

Earlier this year, the Government announced that NHS England will gradually merge with the Department of Health and Social Care, leading to full integration. The aim is to create a smaller, more strategic centre that reduces duplication and eliminates waste.

If successful at interview, we will initiate an Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR). This retrieves key data from your current or previous NHS employer to support onboarding, including competency status, Continuous Service Dates (CSD), and annual leave entitlement. You may opt out at any stage of the recruitment process.

The post holder will:

• Have experience in people management and leadership, working in a matrix management model
• Support the team to move from routine churn to a more considered understanding of what the data can offer and the story it is telling.
• Take a more clinical focus with the data, to inform quality of care and service delivery conversations underpinned by multiple data set utilisation where appropriate.
• Have a working understanding of different analytical tools and techniques such as R, Python etc.
• Work with stakeholders to ensure they can utilise the NCDR (or equivalent) self‑serve platform, to ensure they are getting value add from the data and intelligence provided. Taking a proactive approach, adding narrative to outputs and creating additional outputs as required to ensure all needs are being met.
• Support the delivery of national analytical networks and associated requirements.
• Be highly numerate and use a variety of analytical techniques to provide high quality, timely analysis and intelligence relating to direct commissioned service areas at a national levelli>
• Have an understanding of commissioning for value / variation based data analysis.
• Be adaptable when finding analytical solutions to problems, to analyse and triangulate data and intelligence in innovative ways and present findings clearly to a range of audiences.
• Be able to utilise a variety of data sources to build a coherent analysis relating to a given service areas – informed by a variety stakeholders including clinicians, service specialists, commissioners and finance managers.
• Effectively utilise variation based analysis.
• Have excellent communication skills and be able to influence people with different perspectives to get the most out of stakeholder relationships.
• Support teams within the direct commissioned services directorate to ensure that the portfolio of tasks/projects is planned, managed and delivered effectively, be calm under pressure and able to juggle competing priorities and tight deadlines.
• Be a key member of the team. Be proactive, have a positive outlook and take a flexible approach to work.

You can find further details about the role, including key responsibilities and accountabilities, alongside the organisational structure and person specification in the attached Job Description and other supporting documents.

Secondments

Applicants from within the NHS will be offered on a secondment basis only, agreement should be obtained from their employer prior to submitting the application.

This advert closes on Thursday 11 Dec 2025