Senior Data and Insight Specialist

About the Role

As a Senior Data and Insight Specialist, you will play a key part in transforming raw data into meaningful insight that supports strategic workforce planning and organisational decision making. Working closely with the Data & Insight Team Manager and Strategic People Partners, you will extract, manipulate, and interpret data from multiple systems-including SAP, IBC and other management information systems-to develop high quality reporting and analytics.

A significant element of the role will involve designing and delivering intuitive front end Power BI dashboards, ensuring information is clear, coherent, and tells a compelling story. You will work with large and complex datasets, apply advanced Excel skills, and ideally utilise DAX to optimise data models. Experience with SQL queries would be a strong advantage. Your analysis will help shape solutions, identify root causes, and support continuous improvement across the Council.

You are an analytical thinker with a passion for turning data into actionable insight. You have strong technical skills in data manipulation, modelling, and visualisation, with experience using Power BI to create accessible, user focused dashboards. You are confident working with multiple data sources, comfortable using Excel to a high standard, and ideally familiar with DAX and/or SQL.

You can communicate complex information in a clear and engaging way, supporting colleagues at all levels to understand and use data effectively. You are curious, proactive, and solutions focused-able to anticipate issues, recommend improvements, and influence positive change. You enjoy collaborative working, can manage competing priorities, and take pride and accountability in delivering high quality work that supports evidence based decisions.

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Data and Insight