Business Intelligence & Analytics Lead


Company:	NHS Jobs
Salary:	£49,387 to £56,515 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Nottingham, NG2 3AJ
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	2 Sept 2026
Closing date:	13 Sept 2026

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Summary

Main Duties of The Role Leadership and Team Management: Act as the organisational lead for Business Intelligence and Analytics, providing professional guidance and specialist expertise across NEMS. Provide specialist advice on reporting, analytics and data management to colleagues across the organisation. Lead and develop the Business Intelligence & Analytics Team, ensuring the delivery of high-quality reporting, analytics and data services. Manage team priorities, workload planning and performance to ensure delivery against organisational requirements. Maintain oversight of day-to-day data engineering activities and ensure developments align with business requirements. Support the Head of Digital & Performance in delivering data, reporting and analytics priorities, programmes and objectives. Establish and maintain reporting standards, definitions, documentation and quality assurance processes. Champion good data governance practices and work with teams across NEMS to improve data quality and consistency. Work collaboratively with Information Governance colleagues to ensure the appropriate and compliant use of organisational data. Support the development of technical and analytical capability across the Business Intelligence & Analytics Team. Ensure appropriate documentation, standard operating procedures and knowledge transfer arrangements are maintained across the Business Intelligence & Analytics function. Prioritise reporting and analytical resources to ensure delivery against organisational objectives and timescales. Lead recruitment, appraisal, performance management and personal development activities across the Business Intelligence & Analytics Team Business Intelligence, Analytics & Data Management: Lead the design, development and ongoing improvement of reports, dashboards and analytical products used across NEMS services. Oversee production and quality assurance of routine and ad hoc reporting outputs. Analyse operational, clinical and contractual performance data, identifying trends, risks and opportunities that support informed decision making. Develop reporting that brings together activity, performance, workforce, quality and clinical outcome data, enabling NEMS to understand the relationship between operational performance and quality of care, rather than reviewing measures in isolation. Ensure robust data quality processes are in place and support continuous improvement of organisational data quality. Support the development and maintenance of organisational data standards, definitions and reporting documentation to improve consistency and confidence in organisational reporting. Identify and deliver opportunities to automate reporting, validation and analytical processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual effort. Evaluate emerging analytics, automation and artificial intelligence technologies, supporting their safe and appropriate adoption in line with organisational governance, information governance and clinical safety requirements. Work closely with operational, clinical and corporate teams to understand reporting requirements and provide insight that supports service delivery and performance improvement. Work with service leads and operational managers to improve data quality, reporting consistency and use of data to support service improvement. Build effective relationships with commissioners, system partners and other external stakeholders. Present complex information and analysis to a wide range of technical and non-technical audiences. Provide analysis and performance information that supports service redesign, quality improvement and operational decision making. Support organisational planning, workforce planning and service development through robust data analysis and reporting.

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