Data Analyst in London

We’re hiring for a Data Analyst to join our Analytics team to help us understand how businesses use the Nest platform. Employers and Nest Connectors process over £5bn in pension contributions annually for our 14 million members – we want to use data and insight to make sure that the service works brilliantly for them.

An excellent candidate would be able to empathise with our core audiences, whether that’s from previous experience in B2B, accountancy or payroll position, or if it’s through applied insight and transferable skills.

You’ll help empower our teams to make evidence‑based commercial and strategic decisions through analysing behaviour and performance, uncovering insights, and identifying friction points. Your work will directly support efforts to improve the employer experience, drive value, and in turn, help deliver better outcomes for our members.

Minimum Criteria for this role:

• Analytical thinking
• Communication
• Worked with a statistical tool in the workplace
• Dealing with senior stakeholders

Don’t worry if you think you don’t have all the key skills – it might be worth taking the few minutes to apply as we’re good at spotting potential and offer a generous training budget.

Flexible and Agile Working:

Everyone's personal situation is different. To make the most out of hybrid working, we’ve introduced different ways of working, which include (subject to role requirements):

• Hybrid of office (Canary Wharf, London) and home working (there will be an expectation to attend the office once–twice a week, or more, as required)
• Reduce or vary working hours
• Reduce or vary the days worked
• Work compressed hours
• Job share

For more information about our recruitment process, click here.

Directorate / Department Overview:

Nest is undergoing a transformation to use its data and insight to drive decision making. The Data, Analytics & Customer Insight (DACI) Team is leading how we do it: putting our customers at the heart of our work and helping colleagues to understand and use our data. Our work enables Nest to continually learn, improve how we work, and create value so that we can deliver a better retirement for millions.

The department includes:

• Analytics – taking data and creating value for the organisation, understanding our customer behaviours and business; doing descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive analysis and modelling to help Nest make decisions.
• Data – planning and delivering how we manage high quality data as an enterprise, making it easy for BI, analysis and modelling to happen and be automated.
• Customer insight – putting our customers at the heart, understanding their needs through empathy, research, surveys, and digital insight.
• Business Intelligence – delivering data visualisations to make Nest’s data intuitive to understand.

If you love data and insight, and you’d like to help us on this journey, come and join us.

Organisational Overview:

Nest is an award‑winning workplace pension scheme, the largest in the country. Set up by the government to give every worker in the UK somewhere to save, our first‑class responsible investment practice and governance are the backbone of what we do, supported by all the functions you’d expect to find in a thriving business. We’re committed to creating a workplace where you can be your authentic self and offer an inclusive and flexible working environment.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion:

Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of their age, disability, gender identity, marital status, national origin, pregnancy or caring responsibilities, race, religion/belief, sex, sexual orientation or socio‑economic background. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought and other forms of neurocognitive variation.

Nest is a Disability Confident Leader, which is the highest level of the Disability Confident Scheme. If you have a disability, please declare that you’re applying through the scheme. We aim to offer an interview to those applicants who apply through the Disability Confident Scheme and best meet the minimum criteria. However, there may be some circumstances where this is not possible due to the volume of applications.

Please note that this advert may close early if we receive a sufficient number of satisfactory applications. If you have any difficulty in sending your application or need the application pack in an alternative format, or you require any reasonable adjustments, please contact.