People Analytics & Insights Analyst

As a People Analytics & Insight Analyst, you'll play an impactful role in helping us make informed, people-centred decisions. You'll gather, analyse, and report on the metrics that underpin our HR activity, ensuring we have accurate, reliable, and actionable insights that strengthen our recruitment strategies, enhance employee engagement, and support retention across the organisation. You'll use tools such as Workday and Power BI to provide high-quality analysis and deliver key projects in collaboration with colleagues and stakeholders across HR and the wider organisation.

Maintaining a curated suite of Workday reports with strong data integrity will be central to your work, enabling teams across the charity to adopt a self-service approach and confidently access reliable people data. This role offers the opportunity to help enhance reporting capabilities, streamline processes, strengthen governance, and elevate the impact of HR and people insights-helping us make data-driven decisions that support both our mission and our people.

If you're a Data Analyst with experience working with complex datasets and creating meaningful insights using Power BI in a large organisation, we'd love for you to join our mission.

What will I be doing?

Data Analysis, Reporting & Insights:

• Collecting, validating, and consolidating people data from multiple sources to simplify access to accurate HR information.
• Building, maintaining, and optimising Workday reports and Power BI dashboards, ensuring a consistent and reliable people metrics.
• Conducting trend analysis and generating insights, highlighting opportunities, risks, and performance drivers across the employee lifecycle.
• Producing regular and ad hoc management information (including Executive Board packs and KPI reports).
• Translating complex data into clear visualisations, narratives, and recommendations for HR leaders and senior stakeholders to drive impact and influence.
• Supporting the People Analytics & Insights Manager to provide actionable insights and data-driven recommendations to HR leaders to enhance recruitment strategies, employee engagement, and retention efforts.

Data Quality, Governance & Compliance:

• Performing data integrity checks, data cleansing, and regular data audits to improve accuracy and consistency.
• Collaborating with HR and Systems teams to resolve data issues and embed best practices and data standards.
• Ensuring full compliance with data privacy, information governance, and GDPR requirements.
• Contributing to enhanced reporting governance, ensuring alignment of definitions, metrics, and reporting approaches.
• Collaborating with the Data Security team to ensure adherence to data privacy regulations and compliance, and maintain strict confidentiality of employee data.

Predictive Analytics:

• Applying analytical methods and advanced statistical techniques to identify workforce trends (including turnover drivers, recruitment performance, and engagement indicators).
• Building predictive models to forecast employee attrition, support workforce planning, and inform strategic HR decisions.
• Blending internal and external data to support forward-looking insight and scenario planning.

Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration:

• Building collaborative relationships across HR, Finance, Technology, and organisational leaders to understand data needs and deliver high-value insights.
• Collaborating with other team members to improve reporting and analysis governance, improve efficiency, and provide a joined-up view of insights.
• Presenting findings in a clear, compelling way, tailoring messages to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Supporting capability building across HR by enabling stakeholders to self-serve through Workday and Power BI dashboards.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation:

• Maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of people analytics best practices, visualisation, data modelling, and emerging HR technologies.
• Identifying opportunities to streamline reporting processes and enhance insight delivery.
• Contributing to the development of a source agnostic, integrated approach to people data and analytics.
• Championing equality, diversity, and inclusion in all analytics and decision-making processes.
• Actively contributing to the objectives of the People Analytics & Reporting team and the wider mission of Cancer Research UK.

• Experienced Data Analyst who has manipulated, validated, and consolidated complex datasets from multiple sources in large organisations.

• We welcome applicants from a range of industries. Experience working with HR/ people data and Workday reporting would be beneficial, but is not essential.

• Advanced analytical and reporting skills, with proven experience using Excel, Power BI, and SQL tools to interpret data, identify trends, drive insights, and support decision-making.
• Relevant experience in presenting findings using PowerPoint and data visualisation tools, effectively using outputs to make actionable recommendations.
• Has built credible, collaborative, and engaging stakeholder relationships with strong interpersonal and influencing skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills with a successful track record of clearly translating complex data into meaningful insights for stakeholders in a way that engages and builds their knowledge.
• Curious and proactive problem-solver with a continuous improvement mindset for driving innovation and enhancing data reporting, while championing best practices and strong data governance.
• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities and deadlines, while maintaining strong attention to detail.
• Demonstrates curiosity and a proactive approach to learning, taking ownership of personal development and performance.
• Ideally, available to start on one month's notice or less (however, we welcome applicants with longer notice periods who meet the above criteria).

Our organisation values are designed to guide all that we do.

Bold: Act with ambition, courage and determination

Credible: Act with rigour and professionalism, We're looking for people who can believe in and embody these organisation values and can use them to drive forward progress against our mission to beat cancer.

At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer. We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That's why we're looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you. The HR department plays an essential role in engaging and inspiring Cancer Research UK's people by delivering operational transformation, robust governance, and a high-quality employee experience as part of our Sustain Strategy and HR Operations Plan. This enables us to be an inclusive, sustainable, and agile organisation across a diverse workforce of hundreds of shops, 2,500+ office staff, and 4 scientific research institutes (laboratories).