Strategic Insights Assistant

Lloyds Banking Group; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading banking institution in Bristol is seeking a Strategic Insights Assistant to drive workplace strategies through data-driven insights. You'll gather and analyze data on real estate efficiency and develop reports for senior leadership. The ideal candidate has strong analytical skills, experience in data modeling, and the ability to collaborate across teams. This full-time position offers a hybrid working pattern and a comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits

Generous pension contribution of up to 15%

Annual performance-related bonus

Share schemes including free shares

Discounted shopping benefits

24 days’ holiday on top of bank holidays

Wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis and reporting.
• Ability to translate complex data into user-friendly narratives.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Collect, analyse, and interpret data related to property performance.
• Develop dashboards that provide actionable insights for strategic planning.
• Support scenario planning for property consolidation and expansion.

Skills

Data Literacy

Business and Commercial Insight

Collaboration

Critical Thinking

Values & Behaviours

Technical

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Job description

• JOB TITLE: Strategic Insights Assistant
• SALARY: £29,460
• LOCATION(S): Bristol
• HOURS: Full time
• WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites.

About this opportunity

As a Strategic Insights Assistant in the Future Workplace team, you'll play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our workplace strategy through data-driven insights. This position involves gathering, evaluating, and deciphering information about real estate efficiency, occupancy patterns, and space usage to guide key decisions and improve workplace efficiency.

Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and models for senior leadership, guiding property investments and workplace strategies. By tracking important metrics such as occupancy levels, workstation expenses, and spatial utilization, you can pinpoint various opportunities to improve operational efficiency and employee happiness.

In this role, you'll be supporting the Strategic Insights Team in the delivery of strategic insights that inform property and occupancy decisions across the organisation. This includes leveraging data analytics, space utilisation metrics, and business intelligence tools to support portfolio optimisation, workplace planning, and executive decision-making.

Collaborating with the Workplace, Human Resources, Financial, and Technology teams, you'll guarantee that occupancy insights are in sync with workforce planning and business goals. You'll also coordinate scenarios and predictions to forecast forthcoming spatial requirements, assisting in consolidation, expansion, and adaptable work setups.

This position demands adept skills in translating intricate data into engaging stories for non-technical audiences, guaranteeing that valuable insights steer impactful decisions. Maintain and improve data models, ensure data integrity in IWMS, CAFM, and HR systems, and integrate new tech for better analytics. Staying ahead of industry benchmarks and emerging analytics practices will be key to driving continuous improvement and innovation in workplace analytics.

Day to day you'll:

• Collect, analyse, and interpret data related to property performance, occupancy trends, and space utilisation.
• Develop dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights for strategic planning and operational efficiency.
• Monitor KPIs such as occupancy rates, cost per workstation, and space efficiency.
• Support scenario planning for property consolidation, expansion, and hybrid working strategies, conducting forecast and trend analysis to anticipate future space needs and workforce patterns, and providing evidence-based recommendations to support investment decisions and workplace transformation.
• Partner with Workplace, HR, Finance, and Tech teams to align occupancy insights with workforce and business strategies.
• Translate complex data into clear narratives for non-technical stakeholders to enable the findings and recommendations to be presented to senior leadership and governance boards.
• Maintain and enhance data models and tools used for occupancy and property analytics, ensuring data integrity across systems.
• Support the integration of new technologies and data sources to improve insight capabilities, identify opportunities to improve data collection, reporting processes, and analytical methodologies.
• Stay informed on industry benchmarks, workplace trends, and emerging analytics practices.

Why Lloyds Banking Group

If you think all banks are the same, you'd be wrong. We're an innovative, fast-changing business that is shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that empowers its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.

What you’ll need

• Data Literacy: Capable of designing, developing and applying data and analytics experience in day‑to‑day role to drive effective decision making. Driving the team to become data‑driven and use data in their day‑to‑day roles.
• Business and Commercial Insight: Experience at applying knowledge to monitor changes to business and marketplace and understand the impact on the Group or own area of work. Translates understanding of business impacts into practical actions.
• Collaboration: Adept at building professional relationships and networks with people in or outside the team as part of day‑to‑day work. Understands differences between people and seeks opportunities to work collaboratively across boundaries (e.g., with different teams, business areas, cultures etc.).
• Critical Thinking: Capable of interpreting information in an objective manner (even when it is limited) using technical or industry‑specific knowledge or experience and deductive reasoning. Generates and contributes ideas to support in the formulation of judgements and solutions.
• Values & Behaviours: Is future focussed, able to communicate positions that align with the overall Group Strategy. Finds solutions, not problems. An early adopter of change and drives transformation at pace with a growth mindset. Works with integrity and promotes a collaborative and inclusive environment.
• Technical: Strong analytical skills with experience in data modelling, reporting, and visualisation tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We’re passionate about giving you the opportunities to learn and continue to develop your career to achieve your potential whilst enjoying this dynamic and exciting role.

Benefits package

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance‑related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
• 24 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

(Please note our roles can generate a considerable amount of interest and can close early so don’t miss out on this opportunity to apply today.)