Strategic Analytics Lead

Strategic Analytics Lead

Reporting to: Head of Financial Strategy & Business Intelligence

Dept/Pillar: Analytics 

Hours: 37 (full-time)

Grade/Salary: From £53,983

Contract Type: Permanent

Vetting Level: NPPV 3 & SC

Overview of the role (What can I expect, why does it exist?)

As a key member of the Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence team, you will play a vital role in supporting strategic decision-making across BlueLight Commercial. Leveraging your expertise in data management, analytics and business intelligence, you will transform complex data into actionable insights that drive value across blue light services and effectively communicate these insights to stakeholders.

As an Strategic Analytics Lead, you will champion the use of data, emerging technologies and analytical best practice to support informed decision-making, monitor performance and track the delivery of strategic initiatives. Working closely with commercial and business stakeholders, you will help deliver better outcomes and greater value through:

• Developing trusted data assets through strong data governance, quality controls and standardisation.

• Coordinating and analysing complex datasets from multiple internal and external sources to generate meaningful business insights.

• Delivering reporting, dashboards, performance measures and balanced scorecards that support strategic and operational decision-making.

• Providing commercial and market intelligence through the analysis of spend, demand, suppliers, inflation, benchmarking and performance data.

• Driving innovation, continuous improvement, automation and the adoption of AI and emerging technologies to enhance organisational effectiveness and value delivery.

My team and the BlueLight team 

You will be part of a growing Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence team within the wider Commercial function. This role is integral to BlueLight Commercial, supporting the achievement of our strategic objectives through the delivery of real-time, valuable insights that enable informed, high-level decision-making.

We are passionate about creating a high-performing team culture where collaboration, support and continuous improvement are at the heart of everything we do. We are committed to optimising technology to plan, manage and deliver work in a visible, collaborative and efficient way.

As a fully remote and agile organisation, we offer an exciting and flexible working environment where innovation and teamwork thrive.

My responsibilities and accountabilities

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of the organisation's data architecture, ensuring data assets are structured, accessible and scalable to support current and future business needs.

• Establish, maintain and continuously improve data standards and quality controls, driving greater standardisation, consistency and trust in organisational data.

• Contribute to the development and maintenance of efficient processes for aggregating, integrating and managing data from multiple internal and external sources, including structured and unstructured datasets.

• Analyse organisational and customer data to identify data quality issues, inconsistencies, duplication and opportunities for improvement.

• Apply data profiling, cleansing, validation, transformation and reconciliation techniques to ensure data is accurate, complete and fit for business use.

• Develop and enhance reporting, dashboards and performance metrics that provide timely, reliable and actionable insights to stakeholders.

• Translate complex data from multiple sources into clear insights, recommendations and business intelligence.

• Analyse spend, demand, supplier, specification and operational data to support commercial strategy, planning and decision-making at local, regional and national levels.

• Integrate market intelligence, supplier information, inflation indicators and external benchmarking data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and strategic insights across commercial categories and services.

• Apply analytical techniques, including trend analysis, forecasting, benchmarking, variance analysis, scenario modelling and performance analysis to support strategic decision-making.

• Support specialist Commercial teams through the development and management of datasets, analytics and supplier intelligence, enabling effective category management and supplier strategies.

• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to understand business requirements, maximise the value of data and support governance forums and decision-making processes.

• Support the adoption of automation, emerging technologies and AI solutions to improve efficiency, data quality, insight generation and decision-making.

• Contribute to the continuous development of the Data, Analytics and Business Intelligence function through innovation, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement.

Qualifications & Accreditations

You are someone who has attained:

• A strong academic record ideally in an analysis focused degree or economics, finance or Business Studies.

• Microsoft Power BI, Fabric or Data Analytics certification (desirable)

Experience & Knowledge

You are someone who has:

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to deliver multiple /parallel projects.

• Advanced analytical skills, including trend analysis, forecasting, benchmarking and insight generation.

• Proven experience developing dashboards, reports and performance metrics using Business Intelligence tools.

• Proven ability to manage and reconcile data from disparate systems, ensuring accuracy, consistency and data quality.

• Strong understanding of data integration, data modelling and the management of structured and unstructured datasets.

• Ability to collate, integrate and interpret data from multiple internal and external sources, including market intelligence, supplier information and benchmarking data.

• Experience with Microsoft Fabric, Power Query and modern cloud-based analytics platforms.

• Knowledge of automation and AI-driven analytics solutions.

• Commercial / procurement experience gained within the public sector or large private sector organisation (desirable).

• Strong commercial acumen and in depth understanding of the commercial lifecycle (desirable).

• Business process modelling (lean six sigma or equivalent) (desirable)

Skills

You are someone who is:

• Good verbal and written communication skills to ensure analytical insights are understood and used.

• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to translate complex data into actionable recommendations.

• Demonstrable experience in developing balanced scorecards.

• Excellent professional IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite including visualisation tools such as Power BI.

Personal Qualities

You are:

• Analytically minded with the ability to assimilate and apply new techniques and knowledge quickly to deliver insights and solve problems.

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

• A dedication to teamwork and collaboration.

• Desire to learn and develop

Our Values

Our values guide our behaviour. They inform how we act, the decisions we make and how we collaborate with each other and the organisations we work with. They were shaped by our team, purposefully designed to ‘inter-connect’. They remind us of ‘how to be’ in all we do and strive to achieve as a diverse and agile company.

• Be the best

• Be responsible

• Be a team

• Be open

• Be the difference

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We foster a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where our people can be themselves. We value every idea and perspective towards helping us to evolve and innovate.

What We Offer - Total Rewards Package

• Starting salary £53893 p.a. (DOE dependent on experience)

• Quality equipment for successful remote working, laptop, mobile phone, monitor, chair & desk and a Welcome ‘kit box’

• 12% employer pension contribution

• Support for your development for your Role and future career development (a framework to achieve this)

• Pension salary sacrifice scheme

• Life insurance 4 x salary

• 28 days annual leave (rising on service) plus paid bank holiday leave

• Birthday Leave (1 x extra day per year to be used in birthday month)

• Occupational sick pay

• Wellness – free vouchers for eye test and flu jab

• Employee Assistance Programme for health and wellbeing

• 1 x annual professional subscription

• Learning Management System – access to free training & e-learning (more than 80,000 learning resources)

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 30 September 2026

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS: To be confirmed

*Please let us know confidentially if you require any adjustments in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience, this can be prior to applying or when you apply.

“The legal bit”

The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including medical screening and vetting (carried out externally NPPV3 & SC* ) due to the nature of our business this is important. As standard you will need to satisfy:

• Employment eligibility check (right to work in the UK)

• Residency qualification (meaning you must have a 5 year 'checkable history' in the UK, ideally you have been and you are a resident in England or Wales for the last 5 years).

• Employment references (last 3 years or educational / personal reference where applicable)

*NPPV3: Vetting process | Warwickshire Police

This level of vetting grants the applicant to have unsupervised, unrestricted access to police premises and systems and could include those working in areas where the police roles have been identified as designated posts. NPPV3 allows access to classified police material or information up to SECRET and occasional access to TOP SECRET

Clearance at SC level, sits alongside NPPV3 allows applicants access to a higher level of secure information and systems.