Lead Analyst

NATS is the UK’s leading air navigation service provider, handling over 2.4 million flights each year. We provide air traffic control services from two control centres and at airports around the UK. Our people are at the heart of our purpose to advance aviation and keep the skies safe.

The positive real-world impact of roles at NATS attracts many of our employees and makes this a great place to grow your career. Our Analytics team members see their analysis swiftly shape data-driven decisions across our industry to help ensure air travel becomes even safer, greener and more efficient. This Lead Analyst role is a rare opportunity to join the team at a senior level, combining leadership and technical skills to enhance and expand our capabilities and services.

This specific role will be focussed on analytical modelling for airport stakeholders, so an interest in this domain, willingness to travel on occasion, and any experience of airport planning/simulation toolsets would be beneficial.

Applicants should have a proven ability to lead, manage and deliver a portfolio of high-quality technical analysis. The successful candidate will have a proactive and can-do approach, with the curiosity to unlock the potential from complex data, translating this into insightful recommendations and solutions which can be relied on by customers. Effective teamwork and communication skills are essential attributes which will allow consideration of different technical viewpoints and to present a clear story from results.

Previous experience in successfully interpreting, shaping and delivering requirements to add demonstrable value for senior customers would be an advantage. Roles within Analytics involve a variety of analytical tools and techniques; therefore, experience of appropriate programming languages (e.g. R, Python, PySpark), databases and statistical packages, data science and Machine Learning/AI techniques would be beneficial. Sound logic and reasoning, alongside the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives, means that you will also be adept at positively challenging the status quo.

• Academic Background: Good honours degree in a numerate subject (which could be scientific or business oriented) or equivalent (e.g. other qualifications or relevant work experience).
• Knowledge and Appreciation of Air Traffic Management (ATM) operations: Desirable to have knowledge and appreciation of current and likely future UK ATM operations, in depth in at least one area.
• Quality of work and communication: Produces well documented, high-quality technical work, and actively determines when work is of a sufficient standard.
• Negotiation: An ability to negotiate with technical, operational and non-operational staff on a wide range of technical and non-technical topics.
• Team working: An ability to lead, motivate and inspire an effective team culture, by promoting team spirit, keeping others focussed and supporting colleagues.

We are proud to offer a fantastic total reward package to help you thrive both personally and professionally. We have adopted agile working to provide greater flexibility and increased choice over working arrangements, with the opportunity for this role to work in our modern office facilities as well as remotely. If you share our passion to advance aviation and keep the skies safe, we would like to hear from you.