Data Analysis Manager in Brighton

TPR grade & pay group: Grade 7 & Digital

Directorate: Digital, Data & Technology

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Brighton: Hybrid (6 days per month in the office)

The Role And Responsibilities

We are looking for someone to ensure the framework for measuring the success and performance of TPR continues to both drive and reflect the implementation of our Data Strategy and TPR’s wider objectives. The postholder will ensure TPR continues to demonstrate best practice in measuring and forecasting operational performance and relevant external landscape changes and enabling others to improve performance and set future priorities and approaches. This person will oversee the delivery of MI and analysis reporting at all levels and audiences, including TPR Board, ensuring it is as user centric as possible and supports the key discussions and decisions.

This role will work closely with stakeholders and delivery partners (including broader TPR and DWP) to use MI and analysis to build shared understanding of landscape changes, identify emerging risks and ensure these are used to inform operational, policy and strategy decisions. This postholder will also be a function leader within TPR’s wider analytical community, they will work with function leaders from TPR’s other analytics teams, to ensure there is a strong and coherent analytics capability and architecture across TPR.

This role will involve the following responsibilities:

• Role responsible for day-to-day delivery of analytics and performance services, ensuring quality and timeliness of delivery across business, with a focus on continuous improvement and innovation. This will include line management and leadership of a team of approx. 6-7 analysts.
• Own and maintain the overall performance framework ensuring it reflects and drives progress towards TPR’s strategic priorities and objectives.
• Accountable to Data Management Lead to deliver performance measurement, MI, modelling and forecasting required to underpin the good running and future planning of other functions in TPR.
• The role manages meeting the analysis needs of internal and external stakeholders. Attend Operational Analytics Group, DWP Pensions Analytics/Insight forums and other data-analytics.
• Deputise for the Data Management Lead role when required and maintain a working knowledge of all areas of ELG and MO to effectively communicate with a range of stakeholders.

Role criteria

You will:

• Be educated to degree level in mathematics / statistics / sciences or equivalent background.
• Be a customer focused individual, able to build strong working relationships with other managers and teams at all levels including Executives.
• Have advanced SQL coding skills using Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services and Power Bi.
• Have experience of developing cohesive quantitative performance frameworks, anchored in data and analytics, that drive and reflect business priorities.
• Have knowledge of analysis and modelling techniques such as regression and time series analysis.
• Have extensive knowledge of data visualisation techniques.
• Have extensive experience in designing and delivering performance measures.
• Have the ability to develop and improve analytics and MI products that improve business performance.
• Have the ability to communicate complex analytics in a clear and cogent manner, appropriate to the audience (including at Director and Board levels); referencing this against business needs; and succinctly explaining its relevance/significance.
• Have the ability to motivate and enhance the delivery of own team, peers and other stakeholders.
• Have experience of Azure DevOps and Git repositories.
• Have practitioner experience with Python, R.
• Have experience of project management.
• Have a sound (but not expert) understanding of the UK business environment, pensions market and the UK regulatory system.

Person Specification

Proactive and flexible: Independently manage the team workload and schedules using Agile methodology, ensuring products are delivered in a timely manner, resolving any conflicting priorities.

Problem solving and analytical skills: proactively identify areas where MI development is needed. Liaise with business owners validate those potential information requirements before allocating work to the MI team. Assess MI requests against existing products in Power BI and evaluate the value of the potential output against MI resource requirement. If request is deemed relevant, decide whether new work is required or if existing products can be enhanced to meet the information needs of the customer.

Communication skills at all levels: Develop an understanding of ELG and MO operations to identify any potential gaps in MI product offering and proactively offer and implement MI solutions to advance efficiency of these operations.

Attention to detail and accuracy.

Work in collaboration with other data teams across TPR to successfully implement the Data Strategy launched in March 2025.

The team

TPR Offers

Genuine opportunities for learning and development. Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns. A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities.