Senior Data Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Senior Data Analyst
Company: Anglo Technical Recruitment
Job description: Job description
This contract with our central government client is for a Senior Data Analyst for 3 months with a potential for extension. The role is hybrid working and located in London or Leeds. The pay rate is £227.44 per day Umbrella / £167.79 PAYE.
Job Description:
The key job specifics and responsibilities include:
– Improving quality and outcomes
- To develop and deliver excellent analytical tools and information, processes and procedures within the Organisation
- To develop and deliver excellent planning tools and robust planning information, processes and procedures within the Organisation
- To support the Commercial team to be recognised as a centre of excellence to support Directorates in the provision of Commercial services across the Organisation
- To liaise with Business Partner, Procurement and SRM teams to develop risks, issues, assumptions and dependencies logs
- To work collaboratively across the business and the Improvement matrix, including integrating the National Director’s portfolio.
– Enabling patient and public involvement
- To act as a champion for patients and their interests and involve the public and patients in the policy development and decision-making of the business and improvement.
- To ensure all public and patient contact with the office is of the highest professional standard.
- To embed patient and public involvement within the business and improvement Improvement at all levels of decision making.
– Promoting equality and reducing inequalities
- To uphold organisational policies and principles on the promotion of equality.
- To create an inclusive working environment where diversity is valued, everyone can contribute, and everyday action ensure they meet their duty to uphold and promote equality.
– Partnership and cross boundary working
- To support the Commercial Teams in development of forecast and planning pipeline information
- To support the Commercial Teams with development of category plans and analysis as appropriate
- To support the Assurance & Reporting Manager or Project Leads in the development, provision and support of Programme Management plans, Risk and Issues Logs, Stakeholder Management
- To work in partnership with others and as part of cross directorate teams to deliver successful outcomes
- To coordinate activities of other officers in the awareness of the business agenda with specific reference to communication of directorate and corporate activities
- To facilitate effective liaison with people at all levels, including senior staff at the Department of Health, Government Departments, MPs, senior staff in the business and partner organisations
– Leadership for transformational change
- To model a collaborative and influencing style of working, negotiating with others to achieve the best outcomes. Embedding this approach across the Directorate.
– Developing an excellent organisation
- To ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of all staff within the department.
- To ensure compliance with all confidentiality and governance requirements within the department.
- To adhere to the Managers Code of Conduct and any other relevant professional codes of conduct at all times.
Key functional responsibilities:
- To produce Commercial wide project and activity dashboard reports
- To prepare weekly, monthly and annual returns for the onward submission
- To be a specialist point of contact for producing reports from the Organisations e-Procurement System and lead on the creation of push reports to enhance the efficiency of the Commercial Team.
- To lead on data collection and data inputting.
- To lead on enhancing data quality in the Originations e-Procurement systems.
- To provide spend data analysis for a number of categories as requested
- To support with developing cost breakdown templates, cost breakdown analysis, quotation analysis as required
- Provide support with completing Freedom of Information Returns (FOI)
Key accountabilities:
– Project Management
- Contribute to performance improvement, taking a lead for identified areas.
- Provide coordination of and participate in relevant working groups and provide project advice, expertise and support where requested.
- Provide relevant and timely specialist advice and guidance on own portfolio.
- Work with members of the Team to investigate the causes of any variance from plan and proactively contribute to the implementation of solutions.
- Management of a risk and issues tracking mechanism and the resolution and escalation processes.
– Financial and Physical Resources
- Provide regular reporting on the targeting of resources and monitoring their implementation from a value for money perspective.
- Provide oversight and monitoring of all aspects of team budgets or manage budgets as required.
- Ensure project expenditure is monitored accordingly.
– People Management
- Provide reports on training, development and recruitment activity across the Team as required.
- Manage staff, undertaking appraisals, and managing any employee relations issues.
– Information Management
- Devise and provide improvements to current management information, analysing, reporting and suggesting procedures to enhance decision making processes.
- Ensure timely and accurate detailed information analysis and reporting to management on agreed areas of work.
– Research and Development
- Contribute to the development of key performance indicators.
- Delegate aspects of research and development activities, collating information, analysing and reporting findings.
– Planning and Organisation
- Contribute to the strategic planning of team projects, identifying interdependencies, and potential impacts on wider organisation, resource requirements and building in contingency and adjustments as necessary.
- Contribute to short, medium and long-term business plans.
– Policy and Service Development
- Develop policies and procedures in own work function with an impact on the wider organisation, as required.
- Contribute to the development of an integrated approach to service management.
Key Working Relationships:
- The post holder will be required to maintain constructive relationships with a broad range of stakeholders.
- Participate in relevant working groups/projects, services and initiatives to provide, information and analytical advice and expertise.
- Develop and implement data collection systems that will provide accurate and timely data.
- Present information and issues, explaining highly complex issues, to a wide range of stakeholders.
Requirements
Qualifications:
– Working towards recognition as a procurement professional
– Educated to Post-graduate degree level in relevant subject or equivalent level qualification or evidence of significant experience of working at a similar level in specialist area.
Knowledge and Experience:
– Expert knowledge of leading practice Analytical systems, tools, principles, processes and practices including implementation and development
– Proven knowledge of developing Analytical tools, principles, processes and practices within a Strategic Procurement function
– Understanding of Public Sector, ideally in Health or Procurement
– Good stakeholder engagement skills across Organisation.
– Experience of managing a team.
– Experience of successfully operating in a politically sensitive environment.
– Evidence of continued professional development.
– Experience of drafting briefing papers and correspondence at senior management team level.
– Experience of setting up and implementing internal processes and procedures.
Skills Capabilities and Aptitudes:
– Expert level MS Excel,
– Good MS word and MS powerpoint
– Experience of specific analytical tools eg Power BI
– Excellent analytical capability
– Clear communicator with excellent written and presentation skills; capable of constructing and delivering clear ideas and concepts concisely and accurately to a diverse and varied range of audiences consisting of internal and external stakeholders.
– Ability to prepare and produce concise yet insightful communications for dissemination to senior stakeholders and a broad range of stakeholders as required.
– Ability to analyse very complex issues where material is conflicting and drawn from multiple sources.
– Demonstrated capability to act upon incomplete information, using experience to make inferences and decision making.
– Numerate and able to understand complex financial issues combined with deep analytical skills.
– Demonstrated capabilities to manage own workload and make informed decisions in the absence of required information, working to tight and often changing timescales.
Values and Behaviours:
– Commitment to and focused on quality, promotes high standards in all they do.
– Able to make a connection between their work and the benefit to patients and the public.
– Consistently thinks about how their work can help and support clinicians and frontline staff deliver better outcomes for patients.
– Values diversity and difference operates with integrity and openness.
– Works well with others, is positive and helpful, listens, involves, respects and learns from the contribution of others.
– Consistently looks to improve what they do, look for successful tried and tested ways of working, and also seeks out innovation.
– Actively develops themselves and supports others to do the same.
– Understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships.
– An ability to maintain confidentiality and trust.
– Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change
Expected salary: £227.44 per day
Location: London
