Director of Business Intelligence & Analytics

1. Lead the UK Business Intelligence & Analytics capability, providing direction, coaching and performance management to three BI Managers, the Operations and Delivery Lead and setting the standards for a team of BI Engineers from Associate to Senior level.
2. Embed and sustain the UK BI operating model, establishing a single demand intake, transparent prioritisation, capacity planning, release governance and published service levels, and holding the line on the model once landed to eliminate duplicate build and shadow reporting.
3. Own the UK BI product estate end to end, ensuring a single version of the truth through certified data products, agreed metric definitions, clear data ownership, and consistent engineering standards for modelling, testing, documentation and release.
4. Build and grow the Data Science and Advanced Analytics capability, defining its target operating model, funding case and delivery method, and establishing a value-prioritised use case pipeline supported by proportionate model governance, validation, monitoring and ethical review.
5. Act as the senior BI and analytics voice to the UK Executive, capability leaders and contract directors, converting business problems into analytical work and analytical output into decisions, and challenging demand that is poorly framed or low value.
6. Support growth by providing credible data, insight and analytics content for bids, rebids and mobilisations, and ensure all client-facing and contractual reporting obligations are met accurately and on time.
7. Own the BI element of the UK data platform roadmap in partnership with Technology, together with data quality, security and information governance, third party and tooling relationships, and the capability’s cost base and vendor commercials. Internal

• Senior Director Performance & Finance

• UK Executives

• Capability Operational Directors and senior leaders

• Substantial experience leading business intelligence, analytics or data functions at scale in a complex, multi-contract or multi-site environment, including leadership of managers

• Demonstrable track record of designing and embedding an operating model for a data function, not solely operating an established one

• Experience building or materially scaling a data science or advanced analytics capability, including making and defending the business and funding case

• Credibility with executive-level stakeholders, with the presence to challenge and the judgement to prioritise ruthlessly

• Commercial literacy, including cost-to-serve, contract economics and the justification of analytics investment

• Strong grounding in modern cloud data platforms and BI toolsets, ideally Microsoft Azure/Fabric and Power BI, sufficient to set architecture direction and hold technical leaders to account

• Working knowledge of data science methods and model lifecycle management sufficient to govern delivery and assess feasibility credibly

• Sound understanding of data governance, data quality, security and UK GDPR obligations in a client and regulator facing setting

• Degree or professional qualification in a numerate, data or technology discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience

Desirable

• Experience in public sector, outsourced services or regulated delivery environments

• Experience in employment, health, skills or wider public service delivery

• Experience supporting bids and mobilisations with analytics content and propositions

• Experience of workforce management, planning or optimisation analytics

Maximus Competencies

• Embraces Respect

• Partners Effectively

• Creates Innovative Solutions

• Focuses on the Customer

• Demonstrates Compassion

• Takes Responsibility & Acts with Integrity

Individual Competencies

• Leadership & People Development - Inspires, develops and holds to account a high-performing technical team

• Strategic Thinking - Sets clear direction for the capability and connects it to the wider operating model

• Commercial Insight - Understands the drivers of contract profitability and where analytics creates value

• Business Partnering - Builds trusted relationships with operational, commercial and functional leaders

• Analytical Thinking - Applies rigour and evidence to problem definition and decision support

• Change Leadership - Champions adoption of new processes, standards and tooling, and sustains them

• Accountability & Integrity - Takes ownership of delivery, data quality and outcomes

Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for interview. Your Guaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. * Where reasonable, MAXIMUS will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.

Minimum Salary £ 0.00 Maximum Salary £ 110,000.00 *

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