About the role
The Reporting & Analytics Data Partner acts as a trusted partner to People and business stakeholders, translating complex business questions into meaningful reporting, insights, and analytical solutions.
The role is responsible for delivering trusted and actionable people data products, supporting evidence-based decision making, and ensuring reporting services are aligned to strategic business priorities. Through strong stakeholder partnership, analytical expertise, and effective data governance, the role enables greater understanding of workforce trends, organisational performance, and colleague outcomes.
The Reporting & Analytics Data Partner supports the development of data-driven decision making across the organisation by improving data literacy, increasing adoption of reporting and self-service solutions, and helping stakeholders derive meaningful actions from insight.
This role combines stakeholder engagement, reporting expertise, analytical thinking, and service ownership to ensure reporting products are scalable, consistent, well-governed, and capable of meeting evolving business needs.
You will be responsible for
People Reporting & Insight Service Ownership-
Owning the end-to-end performance of reporting, analytics, and insight services across assigned business domains.
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Managing demand, priorities, and delivery within a clearly defined and outcome-focused service model.
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Ensuring reporting products remain relevant, scalable, user-focused, and aligned to business priorities.
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Driving continuous improvement of reporting services, dashboards, and analytical outputs.
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Monitoring adoption, effectiveness, and stakeholder satisfaction to ensure reporting services deliver value.
Strategic People Insight & Decision Support
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Delivering insightful analysis across a broad range of people topics, including workforce composition, organisational effectiveness, colleague experience, resourcing, reward, wellbeing, performance, capability, and diversity and inclusion.
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Identifying trends, risks, opportunities, and emerging workforce issues through the interpretation of people data.
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Supporting strategic decision making through evidence-based insight and analysis.
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Providing forward-looking, scenario-based, and business-focused analysis to inform workforce and organisational planning.
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Communicating complex findings in a clear and actionable way, tailored to different audiences.
Stakeholder Partnership & Consultancy
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Acting as a trusted reporting and analytics partner to People teams and business stakeholders.
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Building a strong understanding of business priorities, challenges, and strategic objectives.
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Translating business needs into reporting, analytical, and data product requirements.
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Supporting stakeholders to interpret data and use insight effectively in decision making.
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Influencing reporting priorities and helping shape the people data agenda through proactive engagement.
Data Products, Standards & Reporting Frameworks
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Owning and supporting the development of trusted reporting products, dashboards, scorecards, and analytical solutions.
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Ensuring reporting services are built using agreed business definitions, metrics, and standards.
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Aligning outputs to enterprise workforce data models, KPI frameworks, and governance requirements.
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Promoting the adoption and reuse of scalable reporting products and analytical approaches.
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Supporting the continuous evolution of reporting services through standardisation and best practice.
Advanced Analytics, Automation & AI
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Leveraging automation, AI-enabled capabilities, and analytical techniques to improve efficiency, accessibility, and insight generation.
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Identifying opportunities to reduce manual effort and enhance reporting processes.
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Supporting the application of predictive, diagnostic, and scenario-based analytics where appropriate.
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Contributing to the development of innovative analytical approaches that improve business understanding and decision making.
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Working with analytics, technology, and data teams to embed modern tools and methods into reporting services.
Data Quality, Governance & Assurance
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Ensuring reporting outputs meet agreed standards for quality, accuracy, consistency, compliance, and transparency.
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Applying appropriate validation, quality controls, and assurance processes across reporting products.
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Supporting implementation of people data governance standards and best practices.
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Working collaboratively with Data Governance, Technology, and operational teams to resolve data quality issues.
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Maintaining stakeholder confidence and trust in reporting products through robust governance and clear methodologies.
Collaboration Across the People Data Ecosystem
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Working closely with reporting, analytics, governance, technology, and operational teams to deliver integrated solutions.
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Ensuring consistency of metrics, definitions, methodologies, and insight across reporting services.
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Sharing best practice, innovation, and knowledge across the wider people data and analytics community.
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Contributing to the development of enterprise-wide people reporting, analytics, and data strategies.
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Supporting a culture of collaboration, continuous improvement, and data-driven decision making.
Essential
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Experience delivering reporting, analytics, and insight services in a complex stakeholder environment.
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Experience owning end-to-end reporting products and analytical solutions.
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Strong experience translating business requirements into dashboards, reports, and insights.
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Experience applying data quality, governance, and assurance controls.
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Demonstrated ability to influence decision making through insight and analysis.
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Experience supporting strategic workforce, organisational, or business planning through data and reporting.
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Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts clearly.
Desirable
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Experience working with workforce, HR, or people data.
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Experience improving reporting processes through automation and standardisation.
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Experience applying AI, predictive analytics, or advanced analytical techniques.
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Experience coaching colleagues or leading analytical workstreams.
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Knowledge of workforce planning, organisational effectiveness, or people analytics methodologies.
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- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
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