Strategy & Market Insights Analyst

We're looking for a Strategy & Market Insights Analyst (SMIA) to join our growing team. In this role, you'll help Alliance Medical Ltd (AML) make evidence-based decisions by analysing market trends, competitor activity, policy changes, and internal performance across the NHS and wider healthcare landscape.

You'll turn complex information into clear insights that shape our strategic planning, business development, and commercial priorities. This is an excellent opportunity to build strategic and commercial expertise within a healthcare organisation dedicated to improving patient services.

Please be aware that this is a hybrid role, with an expectation to attend our Head Office Hub on Warwick.

What You'll Do

Market Intelligence

• Track developments in the UK healthcare sector, including diagnostic imaging, NHS commissioning, and national policy.
• Conduct competitor analysis and environmental scanning.
• Maintain an up-to-date repository of market intelligence.
• Produce concise insight reports for senior leaders.

Data Analysis & Insight

• Analyse data from multiple sources to identify trends, opportunities, and challenges.
• Develop and manage FOI requests to support market understanding.
• Build dashboards and performance reports using tools such as Excel, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Support opportunity assessments, tender preparation, and bid submissions.
• Translate complex datasets into actionable recommendations.
• Coach colleagues on how to use data effectively.
• Ensure accuracy and consistency across all reporting.

Strategic & Project Support

• Support delivery of the organisation's strategic plan.
• Contribute to business cases, strategic options, and tender responses.
• Coordinate inputs across clinical, commercial, finance, and operational teams.
• Track progress of strategic initiatives and contribute to leadership reporting.
• Help foster a culture of insight-driven decision-making.

Communication & Stakeholder Engagement

• Produce high-quality reports and presentations.
• Communicate insights clearly and confidently.
• Work collaboratively across teams to ensure insights are used in decision-making.
• Represent the Strategy and Commercial Development function in internal and occasional external meetings.

• Strong analytical skills, with experience gathering, interpreting, and presenting complex quantitative and qualitative data.
• Experience using analytical and visualisation tools (e.g., Excel, Power BI, Tableau).
• Ability to synthesise complex information into clear, actionable insights.
• Experience conducting market research, competitor analysis, or environmental scanning.
• Strong written communication skills, with the ability to prepare reports, presentations, and briefing materials for senior stakeholders.
• Ability to work across departments and coordinate inputs from multiple stakeholders.
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple workstreams and deliver to deadlines.
• Strong interpersonal and stakeholder-management skills, with confidence working with colleagues at all levels.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Previous experience in healthcare, NHS policy, commissioning, or diagnostic services.
• Experience developing or contributing to business cases, tenders, or strategic plans.
• Knowledge of performance reporting, KPIs, or business intelligence tools.
• Experience producing Freedom of Information (FOI) requests or analysing FOI datasets.
• Experience training or coaching colleagues in data literacy or insight usage.

Alliance Medical are Europe's leading independent provider of imaging services.

We combine service excellence and innovative imaging technologies to improve patient care and support NHS and independent organisations with their ongoing imaging requirements. Our approach has delivered consistent company growth for more than 30 years.

We operate a robust pre-employment screening process for all roles which includes proof of professional registration and qualifications, DBS checking and occupational health assessments.

We live by our company values to ensure the highest level of patient care:

Our Values

Leaders, managers, and supervisors have a particular responsibility to be role models in terms of how they demonstrate these values themselves and how they engage their teams to work in this way.

Collaboration:

We work together and in partnership for all our patients. We respect expertise and combine it to achieve more.

Excellence:

We never compromise. We strive to deliver the very best in everything we do to ensure the highest quality of care. We treat our patients and each other with compassion, dignity and respect.

Learning:

Knowledge and understanding comes from learning. At Alliance Medical we are committed to ensuring that each and every one of us keeps on learning and that we continuously look for improved ways of working.

Efficiency:

Efficiency in healthcare means more patients get better care. We constantly seek new ways to use the scarce resource of healthcare more intelligently so that more people can live longer, fuller lives.

Openness:

We act with transparency and honesty in everything we do, where staff are encouraged to speak up to ensure a safe and secure environment for our patients.