Senior Commercial Intelligence Analyst

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Senior Commercial Intelligence Analyst

Are you looking to develop your career in Commercial Intelligence?

Then National Highways has the role for you

This role can be based in the South Region, including Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Basingstoke or Guildford.

As a Senior Commercial Intelligence Analyst, reporting to the Commercial Manager of the South Commercial Reporting Team, you will be responsible for:

- Gathering and interpreting stakeholder reporting requirements
- Transforming data into meaningful insights to meet stakeholder reporting requirements, accomplished through report design and development using BI tools
- Interpreting data, supporting the creation of information and intelligence, and recommending how the use of cost intelligence can improve performance and investment decisions.
- Providing advice and support to the team and stakeholders in developing National Highways capability as an informed and intelligent commercial client
- Providing support in evaluating and reporting the cost base and cost drivers on programmes within National Highways.

What you’ll be leading on
- Supporting the design and implementation of robust processes and systems for reporting solutions.
- Collecting and managing data and ensuring that it is relevant, timely and accurate.
- Supporting assurance on cost intelligence, ensuring that the quality of reporting withstands scrutiny internally and externally.
- Identifying and reporting opportunities for delivering increased and sustainable value for money, efficiency, and delivery of key performance indicators.
- Maintaining robust processes for efficiency generation, delivery, assurance governance and reporting.
- Supporting Senior Managers, and resolution of ad-hoc reporting requirements. Managing, developing and motivating line reports as appropriate, and ensuring that they comply with all relevant health and safety policy and processes.

To be successful:

- Commercial and financial management understanding
- Economic analysis understanding
- Process and system development experience
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Good Excel and data management capability
- Familiar with Power BI report design and development
- Experience using SQL Server Management Studio and T-SQL
- Support the development of reporting cost intelligence within National Highways
- Detailed understanding of NH cost base and cost drivers
- Understanding of relevant key performance indicators, and factors affecting unit cost drivers and movement.

**About Us** Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to dobetter and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it - then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

An informal blended working approach has been adopted for many of our roles across National Highways. We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package
- Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
- Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
- Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
- Flexible hours and blended working between base location/home
- Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
- Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
- A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
- Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are
- Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
- Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
- Community friendly - offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year plus an extra 3 days to support the national Covid effort
- Right to work check
- 3 year employment history references
- DBS criminal record check
- Social media and adverse journalism check
- Driving licence check (if applicable)
- Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)

And finally

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