🚨 Principal Analyst (Hospitals Analytics) | Shape the Future of Healthcare Insight 🚨
📍 Remote-first UK | Quarterly Away Days & Monthly Team Meetings
💷 £55,172 (£61,028 for candidates living within the M25)
🏥 Permanent
Do you enjoy leading high-performing analytical teams, influencing strategy, and using data to improve healthcare outcomes on a national scale?
We're recruiting a Principal Analyst to lead a large analytics function focused on hospital services across England. This is a genuinely purpose-driven opportunity where your work will directly support the assessment and improvement of services including maternity, surgery, cancer care, neonatal services, and wider hospital performance.
Leading a team of Senior Analysts, Analysts and Associate Analysts, you'll be responsible for delivering analytical content that informs inspection activity and helps healthcare leaders understand quality, performance, and patient outcomes across the NHS and wider care sector.
What you'll be doing:
🔹 Leading a multi-disciplinary analytics team, setting direction and ensuring high-quality delivery across a large and complex portfolio
🔹 Working closely with national clinical leads, senior stakeholders, and subject matter experts to translate healthcare challenges into actionable insight
🔹 Overseeing the ingestion, transformation, management and delivery of large-scale healthcare datasets
🔹 Driving the development of self-service data products and analytical pipelines that empower stakeholders to access and use data effectively
🔹 Managing competing priorities across multiple national programmes covering areas such as maternity, surgery, cancer care and wider hospital services
🔹 Championing best practice in analytics, data governance, visualisation and storytelling
We're particularly interested in leaders who bring:
✅ Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
✅ Experience leading and developing analytical teams
✅ Excellent stakeholder management skills and strategic awareness
✅ Strong technical understanding of SQL, Power BI and Excel
✅ Experience working within Azure environments preferable
✅ Exposure to Microsoft Fabric (useful but not essential)
✅ The ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
Experience working with healthcare, clinical, patient, regulatory or public sector data would be highly beneficial, although we're open to exceptional analytics leaders from other complex data environments.
Why join?
✔ Flexible and remote-first working
✔ Condensed hours considered (including 4-day working patterns)
✔ Flexible start and finish times
✔ Travel expenses paid for team meetings and away days
✔ The opportunity to influence healthcare quality and outcomes at a national level
If you're looking for a role where leadership, analytics and purpose come together, we'd love to hear from you.
