Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Grade J. Scale 40 - £49,764 to Scale 41 - £50,788
Hours Per Week: 36 hours
Base Location: Tameside One
Assessment Date: w/c 28th July 2025
The Role
We are seeking an experienced Principal Analyst to lead in supporting our work to support our residents and communities and underpin Public Health initiatives across the borough.
The role will be pivotal in our drive toward data-driven decision making and supporting front-line practitioners and senior managers alike to achieve the best possible outcomes for the borough’s residents.
You will play a leading role in designing and developing a suite of reporting outputs to support all levels of the business, supply timely insight into its activities and show initiative and curiosity in identifying issues and solutions.
You will lead a team of dedicated analysts to develop these skills and support them to deliver strong support across the entire breadth of the organisation and identify where input or intervention is appropriate and useful.
The role will provide an important link between our corporate Business Intelligence Service and senior leaders prioritising positive financial, social and health outcomes for our residents.
You will also be a key part of coordinating any new developments with our Systems and Integration Teams. The organisation is currently investing heavily in a modernised data infrastructure you will have access to the cutting-edge Microsoft Fabric platform and dedicated support to fully harness the benefits of automation, standardisation and the de-siloing of data.
About You
You will be an experienced senior data analyst with strong experience in either a local government and/or Public Health/NHS context with an appreciation for the challenges these organisations currently face.
You will have experience of leading and developing fellow analysts and delivering complex insights in a clear and actionable format to a wide audience.
If you’ve got knowledge of SQL, Python or R, or have worked with data visualisation tools such as Power BI or Tableau that’s great, but subject knowledge, ability and attitude are the most important aspects of the role we’ll make sure you have access to the right opportunities to develop on the technical side.
You will have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and experience of developing data products, dashboards and reports that provide key detail and insight to the services you have supported.
You will have excellent organisational and people management skills, an ability to plan and deliver timely outcomes whilst dealing with multiple enquiries and tasks, excellent written and verbal communication skills, excellent numerical skills, an ability to conduct data and systems analysis and be capable of building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.
About Us
At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.
We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.
Our employees’ skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.
Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.
We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.
Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here
For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager on 0161 342 3546 or dan.hodgson@tameside.gov.uk