The Market Intelligence Officer supports the Council’s ability to understand, shape, and respond to the adult social care market. The team works across commissioning, contracts and Market Shaping to help build a clear picture of service performance, market capacity, quality and financial trends, ensuring decisions have robust evidence and insight. The role has a direct organisational impact. By improving data quality, strengthening market intelligence, and supporting benefit tracking and financial insight, the Market Intelligence Officer enables better planning, improved value for money, and more resilient markets. Your work will help the organisation to respond proactively to market pressures, target improvement activity, and ensure adult social care services are sustainable, responsive, and aligned to statutory duties and local priorities. For more information or to chat about this opportunity please contact Gurdev Singh gurdev.singh@cambridgeshire.gov.uk. Appointment to this post will be subject to the outcome of an Standard Disclosure obtained through the Disclosure and Barring Service. The Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. Our benefits We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed a number of benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension and mileage… A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which can also be accessed by your family Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity and inclusion network Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more. What will you be doing? Working under the direction from the line manager, you will support commissioning and procurement activities by collecting and analysing data to build a clear picture of service performance, provider activity and market dynamics. The role will contribute to the Authority’s ability to respond to local, regional, and national priorities by producing high-quality analysis and supporting evidence-led improvements across the care market. You will produce timely and actionable insights that help identify risks, highlight opportunities for innovation, efficiency, and quality improvement, and support informed planning and decision-making. Through the development of robust reports, dashboards, and benchmarking tools, you will make complex data accessible and meaningful to a wide range of stakeholders. The role will involve close collaboration with providers to assure the quality, optimise the use of commissioned services, and accuracy of data, strengthen relationships, and promote a shared focus on risk management and value delivery. You will also support benefit tracking processes, helping to monitor planned efficiencies, service improvements, and commercial outcomes across relevant programmes and initiatives. You will also be assisting your wider team with sourcing and supplier engagement activities, contributing to pricing reviews and commercial assessments to ensure value for money. You will also deputise for your Manager from time to time. About you You will have previous experience of the creation of dashboards and data reports to support insight and analysis, of supporting delivery of projects and commissioning activities, working with others to deliver shared objectives, experience in data gathering, analysis and benchmarking to produce insights and of monitoring progress, performance and benefit realisation. You will be able to demonstrate experience of contributing to pricing reviews, financial checks or performance monitoring, of working with contract lifecycle processes under supervision, ensuring compliance and in preparing and maintaining data, documentation, reports, and compliance records. You will also have a proven ability to identify and deliver improvement, efficiency, or transformation opportunities through supplier relationship management. Please use your supporting statement in your application to outline how your skills and experience meet the essential criteria outlined in the Job Description/Person specification. About us Cambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes. Our four values are central to our culture, driving everything we do. We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we firmly believe benefits our colleagues, the organisation and our communities. If you don’t meet every single requirement in the job role but think this could be you, please don’t be put off. We are committed to building a workplace that is compassionate and inclusive as well as diverse, so if you think you could be a good candidate for this role please consider applying and speak to the recruiting manager if you have any questions. Our Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our employee network 'IDEAL' and self-organised peer support groups help us to foster an inclusive, supportive and safe working environment where people feel valued, respected, and empowered. We collect relevant diversity data for monitoring as part of the recruitment process to understand the diversity of our applicants and monitor any trends throughout the recruitment processes so that we can take meaningful action. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Leader. We fully support providing reasonable adjustments throughout our recruitment process, as well as when you join us, and we encourage candidates to contact the Hiring Manager, whose details can be found in the advert, to discuss any adjustment needs. Through a Guaranteed Interview Scheme, we will offer an interview to all applicants who disclose a disability and meet the essential criteria for a job vacancy. On your application form you can indicate you are disabled. Some examples of reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process could include additional time to complete an assessment or printing a document on pastel coloured paper with larger font size and line spacing. We would value talking about what might be possible to enable you to join us and thrive, so if there is something that would help you to do your best during your journey with us, please get in touch. Visit our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion. https://www.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/council/jobs-and-careers Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme Disability Confident About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident .