Senior Manager, Performance and Insights

LifeArc; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

LifeArc is seeking a passionate Senior Manager for Performance and Insights to drive organisational performance through analysis and reporting. This pivotal role involves collaborating with senior leadership to align performance metrics and insights aimed at improving outcomes in rare diseases and global health.

Benefits

Pension scheme with up to 12% employer contributions

Private health insurance

31 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Flexible benefits tailored to individual needs

Qualifications

• Experience applying behavioural insights to improve performance.
• Life Sciences/health care industry experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain performance reporting frameworks.
• Provide insights to support strategic decision making.
• Promote data-driven decision making across the organisation.

Skills

Analytical skills

Communication

Problem-solving

Stakeholder engagement

Data-driven decision making

Education

Degree/master's level qualification

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

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Job Title: Senior Manager, Performance and InsightsLocation: 3 days in the London office, 2 days working from homeJob Type: Permanent

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Are you passionate about making life science life changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.

About the role:

LifeArc is on a significant journey to drive greater impact for those experiencing rare diseases, and in the global health space. Our newly established Strategic Planning and Performance function plays a key role in shaping our renewed strategies and supporting plans to deliver on our mission, providing vital insights and monitoring of performance.

We're excited to offer a new opportunity for a data- driven Senior Manager, Performance and Insights to join our team. In this pivotal role, you'll work closely with the Director of Strategic Planning and Performance, and the Senior Manager, Strategic Planning to drive organisational performance through robust monitoring, insightful analysis, and strategic support to the CEO, Executive Team and Senior Leadership Team.

This role supports the strategic alignment of our performance frameworks, reporting mechanisms and insights to deliver LifeArc's vision and strategic priorities.

About you:

Key responsibilities will include:

• Establishing, implementing and maintaining efficient performance reporting and monitoring frameworks and supporting systems and processes across the organisation
• Preparing and delivering on key performance metrics to senior stakeholders, and reporting to external parties including the Charities Commission
• Providing actionable insights relevant to LifeArc to support strategic decision making including the use of behavioural, financial and economic information
• Driving continuous performance improvement through actionable insights
• Supporting ad-hoc strategic decision making through quantitative support in the form of modelling and analytics
• Promoting a culture of data driven decision making and insights.
• Supporting the timely monitoring of organisational performance both in terms of operational and impact, as well as reporting to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Working with other teams, including risk, technology, finance, IT, PMO and data science, including specifically the Strategic Evaluation and Impact Lead, to oversee and the collection, analysis and delivery of robust and trusted information
• Leading on the development and communication of timely key strategic reporting including KPIs and against key annual measures internally
• Leading on the development and communication of timely key compliance reporting to external parties, including regulators, including, but not limited to the Annual Report and Sustainability Report, ESG, working in partnership with other supporting teams including communications, and risk
• Ensuring coherence and consistency in reporting between science, advisory and operational functions
• Supporting LifeArc to drive decision making through actionable insights.
• Driving continuous performance improvement
• Be a trusted advisor in the provision of strategic analytics and information.

Education & experience required:

• Degree/master's level qualification or equivalent
• Background in economics, behavioural economics, or a related discipline.
• Experience applying behavioural insights to improve organisational performance or decision-making.
• Life Sciences/health care industry experience preferred

Skills & abilities:

• Proven experience in performance management within a similar organisational environment.
• Strong understanding of KPI frameworks, regulatory reporting, and data governance and experience in developing and successfully implementing these.
• Advanced analytical skills with experience in scenario modelling and forecasting.
• Proficiency in BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) and data visualisation.
• Experience of successfully collaborating, working with and managing teams within a matrix model to design and deliver complex projects and strategic plans.
• Experience driving data led performance improvement projects.
• Extensive experience of designing and chairing/facilitating senior stakeholder meetings and workshops.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights.
• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills.
• Ensuring adherence to organisational policies, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
• Experience in Board and reporting to senior executive and being able to distil complex information into compelling proposals.
• Experience representing organisations externally, networking and building relationships.
• Strong written communication skills.
• Proven senior capability in programme leadership and a strong track record of project delivery.

About us:

LifeArc is a not-for-profit life science organisation, leading the way for change in rare diseases in the UK and supporting promising initiatives in global health. We seek out research in areas of unmet need that has great potential, providing support to help it become breakthroughs that change lives.

What we can offer you:

Focused on finding life changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritises their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of 'putting patients at the centre of everything we do'.

We are dedicated to creating a diverse, flexible, equitable and happy work environment so our colleagues can thrive as their truest selves. We act with courage, curiosity, care & commitment to deliver quality & excellence for our patients and each other Join us, and you'll be given the scope to develop your professional skills and experience in a safe, supportive and challenging environment

Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.

We all have potential. At LifeArc, you'll discover what you can really do with it.