Lead Business Intelligence Analyst

Location: York, YO19

Looking for a career where your ambition meets real opportunity? Join Persimmon Homes as a Lead Business Intelligence Analyst and step into a role where your success is celebrated, your growth supported, and your work truly matters.

Why Persimmon Homes? We’re one of the UK’s largest and most established housebuilders — FTSE 100 listed, with 29 regional offices and thousands of quality homes built every year. At Persimmon, we don’t just build homes — we build careers.

When you join us as a Lead Business Intelligence Analyst, you’ll benefit from:

• 5* housebuilder – Be part of a company that consistently delivers quality homes and outstanding customer satisfaction
• Life Cover & Contributory Pension
• Bonus Employee Benefits Platform – giving you access to high-street discounts, wellbeing support, and more
• Committed to diversity, inclusion, and empowering your development

What is the role? Persimmon Plc is recruiting for a Lead Business Intelligence Analyst to strengthen our Data Team as we continue to expand our data journey. Reporting to the Data Team Manager, the Lead BI Analyst will take ownership of the reporting and data insight function, managing a small team of BI Analysts (currently three, with potential for growth). You will combine hands‑on BI development with leadership responsibilities, ensuring the delivery of accurate, well‑designed, and insightful reporting across the organisation. This role can be based in Birmingham, York, or Manchester, with a flexible hybrid working option to work remotely up to three days a week.

What you'll do as Lead Business Intelligence Analyst:

• Line‑manage and develop a team of BI Analysts, including resource allocation, performance management, and PDPs.
• Oversee and review all reporting outputs, ensuring a high standard of accuracy, design, and consistency across the team.
• Maintain ownership of the reporting lifecycle – from data extraction and modelling to final delivery and presentation.
• Lead on BI best practices, driving continuous improvement in reporting standards, data quality, and visual design.
• Collaborate and coordinate with cross‑functional teams, stakeholders, and vendors to ensure the effective functioning of the enterprise data infrastructure.
• Translate business requirements into technical specifications, including data streams, integrations, transformations, data models, dashboards, and reports.
• Support the development and maintenance of the enterprise data architecture framework, standards, and principles.
• Document key processes, maintain the data dictionary, and ensure governance and consistency.
• Provide support and mentorship to analysts, fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and innovation.
• Occasional travel to other offices or project sites (typically less than 10%).

What experience do I need?

• Proven experience at Lead or Senior BI Analyst level.
• Experience line‑managing or mentoring BI teams (ideally 3+ analysts).
• Strong attention to detail and a passion for delivering high‑quality, well‑formatted, and visually engaging reports.
• Advanced proficiency with Power BI, including data modelling and DAX.
• Solid understanding of relational databases and data warehouse concepts (dimensions, facts, star schemas) and associated technologies (e.g., Databricks).
• Experience with Python (including Pandas / PySpark).
• Familiarity with software development and source control, in particular Git and CI/CD practices.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – able to engage both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Experience within the housing or construction industry is a significant advantage.
• Knowledge of ERP (COINS, Microsoft Dynamics, SAP, Oracle) and CRM systems.