Business Insights Analyst - Integrated Design and Delivery

Location: London and Hybrid - 3 days (60%) - : Your base will be New Scotland Yard, but we offer blended, flexible working across London. You’ll work wherever you can deliver best - including Met sites, partner locations and from home, when appropriate

Redesign How the Met Works. Shape the Future of Policing.

London doesn’t stand still and neither should we. Do you want to be part of a team that drives the Met to adapt and respond to the ever-changing needs of policing our capital city? Do you want to be at the heart of championing business analysis and insight across large scale transformation? Are you a data analyst who can translate a corporate strategy, or vision into operational capability? Can you help us ensure that changes we make are user focused, operationally deliverable and in the interests of the public?

If you are interested, we encourage you to apply. We are currently recruiting for a Business Insights Analyst within our Integrated Design and Delivery (IDD) function, whose mission is to enhance the effectiveness of the Metropolitan Police Service. This role offers a wide variety of opportunities to contribute to making London the safest global city during a period of significant change by advancing the services provided to the public and improving support for our employees.

What You’ll Be Doing

You will join the IDD team, a team within Strategy responsible for translating both current and future strategic priorities into actionable operational capabilities. This includes delivering robust modelling and analysis to support various programmes and senior management, thereby informing investment and business design decisions.

As a Business Insights Analyst, you will serve as a key analytical resource within the Strategy function, providing specialist expertise in modelling and analysis. Your responsibilities will include challenging existing assumptions, shaping and refining problem statements, and developing analytical products that facilitate confident decision-making. Your analyses will contribute to operational effectiveness reviews across the MPS, helping to identify opportunities for greater efficiency and improved performance, as well as assessing the impact of ongoing and future changes. The insights you provide will directly support the Met’s objectives to reduce crime, build public trust, and enhance standards.

This position plays a vital role in strengthening the Met’s operational capability, ensuring strategic alignment, and building resilience against future challenges.

You will excel in situations of ambiguity, bring clarity to complex issues, and confidently use informed assumptions to develop analytical products that support transformational initiatives and high-value business decisions., * Providing technical business data analysis, including demand and resource modelling to inform decisions.

• Creating analytical outputs and visualisations to drive decision-making.
• Offering guidance and support in business analysis, covering oversight, integration, development, scenario planning, research, modelling, and forecasting.
• Ensuring modelling and analysis are integrated across portfolio and enabling functions.
• Defining problem statements and scopes through well-developed statements of work.
• Helping set and implement standards and processes for analysis.
• Collaborating with Strategy colleagues to further directorate goals., The Met is committed to being an equitable (fair and impartial) and inclusive employer for disabled people, striving to have a diverse and representative workforce at all levels. We encourage applications from people from the widest possible range of backgrounds, cultures and experiences. We particularly welcome applications from people with disabilities and long-term conditions, ethnic minority groups and women.

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Met has committed to making disability equality part of our everyday practice. We ensure that people with disabilities and those with long term conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

The Met is committed to making reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process to ensure disabled applicants can perform at their best. If you need any reasonable adjustments or changes to the application and recruitment process, we ask that you include this information within your application form. All matters will be treated in strict confidence.

Please note, if you are applying for a police officer role or to become a police community support officer (PCSO) or designated detention officer (DDO), there is a minimum requirement that you must pass a job-related fitness test (JRFT) at point of entry. This does not apply to police staff roles. Find out more about police fitness standards.

Do you have experience in Tableau?, * Demonstrated expertise in Excel, SQL, and data visualisation platforms such as Power BI or Tableau.

• Solid educational foundation in data science, statistics, mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines.
• Ability to generate statistical and analytical reports by applying suitable methodologies.
• Experience in gathering, analysing, and modelling data while adhering to best practices for data management.
• Skilled at interpreting complex datasets and selecting effective visual representations to tell detailed and impactful stories.
• Capable of outlining problem statements and crafting methodological approaches with appropriate tools for data projects.
• Proficient in understanding business KPIs and assisting with the development of performance metrics.
• Able to recommend enhancements to current processes, visualisations, and standards to promote greater efficiency.
• Active contributor to designing and delivering scalable solutions that support organisational goals and informed decision-making.

Required Languages English Reports To

The salary is broken down as £45,986 basic salary, which will increase annually until you reach the top of the scale £54,863. Plus, a location allowance of £2,009 and a non-pensionable allowance of £1,000.