Base pay range
60% Flex/Hybrid working month from Newcastle hub.
25 days holiday + 1 day per year in service.
Cycle to work scheme + Family friendly policies +
Personal support + Upskilling.
Retail Discounts, Schemes and free entry
to most Heritage England sites + more.
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Role closes 11:55pm Monday 17/11/25
About the Team
Unity Business Services (UBS) Recruitment Team delivers recruitment campaigns on behalf of HMRC. Our vision is to use innovative methods to reshape recruitment and reduce the time it takes to hire, helping HMRC deliver critical front‑line services to the public. We work with vacancy holders to deliver each stage of the recruitment process and lead on a programme to transform recruitment on behalf of HMRC.
Job Description
This is a data‑focused management role within recruitment, requiring advanced analytical skills and experience in reporting tools such as Power BI and Excel. The successful candidate will lead a team responsible for delivering high‑quality recruitment data insights to support strategic decision‑making.
Your expertise in data analysis and reporting will be essential as you work with recruitment teams to build their data capabilities. You'll work on multiple projects, maintain data accuracy, and provide insights used to support senior leaders. Using tools like Power BI, advanced Excel functions and automation, you'll improve our use of data.
You’ll be supporting the teams’ three main priorities
* Providing UBS Recruitment Teams with team‑level data requests.
* Producing KPI metrics and supporting the Data Manager with business‑level data and analysis.
* Supporting the Senior Recruitment Analyst to produce meaningful forecasting insights.
Requirements
• A data professional with proven experience in a similar role, designing new reporting metrics, analysing data and producing reports at varying rates of complexity.
• Understanding the different recruitment processes across each team to make recommendations for data collation and reporting.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work to deadlines, maintaining and analysing recruitment data and ensuring accuracy.
• Excellent organisational skills with the ability to be proactive and work independently to ensure outputs are delivered as required.
• Leading and coaching a team of Data and Reporting Officers to produce regular reports and respond to all ad‑hoc data requests.
Person Specification
* Lead, motivate and support your team to collaboratively drive performance and deliver business priorities, KPIs and SLAs.
* Personally deliver complex reporting and analysis alongside other managers within the Recruitment Planning and Reporting Team.
* Guide the team to produce accurate and timely data reports, coaching and supporting them to maintain quality standards.
* Work with stakeholders to clarify reporting requirements and advise on the most relevant data sources and formats.
* Make recommendations on managing and flexing recruitment resources based on data insights.
* Support continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to streamline reporting processes and enhance data quality.
* Upskill recruitment teams in data literacy and the importance of accurate data entry and usage.
* Promote confidence in managing change and forecasting, while role‑modelling Civil Service values and behaviours.
* Strong decision‑making skills to evaluate and respond to new and ad‑hoc data and reporting requests.
* Ability to manage team workloads, prioritise tasks and support performance management.
* Experience of managing resource, planning, and performance across a large operational area.
* Willingness to undertake learning in digital tools and programmes to support continuous improvement.
* Ability to manage multiple projects and deliver through others to meet deadlines.
* Ability to work independently and proactively seek and create data solutions.
Additional Location information – Transitional sites
For more information on where you might be working, review this information on our locations. If your location preference is for the following site, it’s important to note that this is not a long‑term site for HMRC and we will require you to move to a new building in the future, subject to our location strategy and the applicable employee policies at that time.
* Benton Park View, Newcastle – moving to Pilgrims Quarter, Newcastle.
Behaviours
* Changing and Improving
Technical skills
* Analytical skills
Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Administrative, Analyst, and Human Resources
Industries
Government Administration
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