Senior People Data Analyst

Howden Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Flexible hours

Reasonable adjustments

Job summary

Howden Group continues to expand its People Analytics capabilities in a senior leadership role. You will drive the data strategy for the People Analytics function, lead a team of analysts, and partner with HR and business stakeholders to deliver robust data products and insights.

The role combines hands-on analytics with team leadership across complex HR datasets, driving governance, quality, and scalable solutions for executive audiences.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a data analytics or BI role with prior mentoring/management of a technical team.
• Strong technical skills across SQL, Python, Power BI, Excel or similar.
• Experience delivering in a project-based or consultancy-style delivery model.
• Excellent communication skills with non-technical stakeholders.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data quality and governance.
• Comfortable balancing hands-on delivery with team leadership responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead, manage and develop the People Analytics team.
• Oversee development and maintenance of analytical products and dashboards.
• QA outputs before HR-side delivery to ensure high standards.
• Translate requirements into scalable technical solutions and governance.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Data governance

Tools

SQL

Python

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Senior People Analytics Analyst

Howden Group Holdings | People Analytics

Role Summary

The Senior People Analytics Analyst will lead the data side of the People Analytics function. Working in close partnership with the HR-side Analytics team - who act as business analysts - this role is responsible for translating people analytics requirements into robust, high-quality data products, tools and insight. Operating in a consultancy-style model, this role will own that delivery end-to-end: leading and developing a team of data specialists, maintaining quality and governance standards, and ensuring outputs are accurate, scalable and fit for a senior stakeholder audience. This is a hands‑on leadership role suited to someone who is equally comfortable setting technical direction and rolling up their sleeves to work with complex datasets. It offers broad exposure to HR, Finance and Data/Technology stakeholders across the Howden Group, and the opportunity to shape a growing function during a period of significant organisational change.

The main roles and responsibilities are:

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, manage and develop a team of data analysts/specialists within the People Analytics team
• Set clear objectives, provide regular feedback and create development opportunities that build technical capability within the team
• Foster a collaborative, high-quality delivery culture, with a strong focus on accuracy, efficiency and continuous improvement
• Act as the senior technical authority within the team, providing guidance on approaches, methods and tools

Technical Delivery & Hands-On Analytics

• Oversee and contribute to the development and maintenance of core analytical products, including the People Dashboard, DE& I Dashboard and more
• Lead the team in working with large, complex and often inconsistent HR datasets
• Review and QA team outputs before they reach HR-side colleagues or business stakeholders, ensuring a consistently high standard
• Contribute directly to complex or high-priority pieces of analytical work, including ad-hoc deep-dives on topics such as attrition, workforce trends and DE& I
• Translate stakeholder and HR-BA requirements into scalable, maintainable technical solutions

Stakeholder & HR-Side Partnership

• Act as the primary point of contact between the data team and HR-side analytics colleagues, ensuring requirements are well understood before development begins
• Participate in scoping and prioritisation conversations, pushing back where requirements are unclear or technically unfeasible and proposing alternatives
• Communicate technical constraints, timelines and delivery risks clearly to non-technical counterparts
• Engage directly with senior HR and business stakeholders where required, presenting data outputs and insight with clarity and confidence

Strategy, Tooling & Governance

• Define and evolve the technical standards, tools and frameworks used by the data team
• Own data governance on the analytics side: maintaining master data principles, ensuring data integrity, confidentiality and security across all datasets
• Develop and document standard operating procedures for data handling, pipeline management and archiving
• Identify opportunities to improve the team's tooling, processes and ways of working in line with the broader HR and technology roadmap
• Work closely with HRIS, Finance and IT teams to ensure strong data collaboration and quality across source systems

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in a data analytics, people analytics or business intelligence role, with prior experience managing or mentoring a technical team
• Strong technical skills across relevant tools and languages (e.g. SQL, Python, Power BI, Excel or similar)
• Experience operating in a project-based or consultancy-style delivery model, working from briefs or requirements defined by others
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage effectively with both technical colleagues and non-technical HR or business stakeholders
• High attention to detail and a strong commitment to data quality and governance
• Comfortable balancing hands‑on delivery with team leadership responsibilities

What do we offer in return?

A career that you define. At Howden, we value diversity – there is no one Howden type. Instead, we’re looking for individuals who share the same values as us: Our successes have all come from someone brave enough to try something new We support each other in the small everyday moments and the bigger challenges We are determined to make a positive difference at work and beyond

Reasonable adjustments

• software
• IT
• office setups
• flexible hours*
• hybrid working*

Permanent Howden began in 1994, as just three people and a dog. Now there are 23,000 of us, and we're a leading global insurance group, managing $37bn of premiums for our clients. Our largest shareholder group is us – the people who work in the business – supported by three long-term, minority growth-equity partners who share our vision to build a business to last, one that will never be sold. The owner's mindset is something that's embedded in our culture; our people readily take ownership of their decisions, their actions, and their outputs. They’re invested in every sense. And we all know that by working together to drive the business forward, everyone will benefit from the extraordinary results we can achieve.