Analyst Manager

Reporting to: Head of Financial Strategy & Business Intelligence

Dept/Pillar: Analytics 

Hours: 37 (full-time)

Grade/Salary: From £53,983

Contract Type: Permanent

Vetting Level: NPPV 3 & SC

The role-holder will lead the data and analytics team to support key strategic business decisions and developments. You will leverage best practice data modelling experience to support commercial and wider organisational activities.

As the Analyst Manager you will be expected to keep abreast and develop the use of analytical tools to improve and support decision-making and monitor the delivery of project pipelines and results. You will be delivering better outcomes and value for blue light services by:

• Providing leadership to the analytical team including meeting service requirements of

Regional Commercial Directors in BlueLight Commercial and its members in accurate, timely

manner.

• Developing and analysing complex data sets to produce useful, actionable insight.

• Undertaking detailed market analysis, including conducting and/or using market research.

• Analysing business performance and communicating it to senior stakeholders.

• Building and utilising commercial and shared services expertise to identify and derive savings

for clients.

• Establishing efficient and effective mechanisms for maintaining good market knowledge and

sharing with relevant people internal and external to BlueLight Commercial.

Despite being a remote company, we seek flexibility as some travel to attend work on sites will be required.

My team and the BlueLight team 

You will be part of a small Analytics team, forming part of the wider Commercial Team and an integral part of BlueLight Commercial, supporting the achievement of the organisation’s key strategic aims.

We are passionate about being a high performing team who support each other. We are intent on optimising technology to plan and deliver work visibly, collaboratively, and efficiently. We are fully remote and agile and being part of our team here is exciting!

You will receive regular feedback on your contribution in monthly 1-2-1’s and success and achievement recognised. We care about your wellbeing and ensuring a healthy, content, resilient and productive workforce within a positive culture of wellbeing. You will have opportunities to develop, gain experience and actively progress your career with us within our career connections framework.

My responsibilities and accountabilities

• Providing leadership, support and development to the data and analytical team.

• Developing KPI’s, targets and dashboards to track performance and highlight areas of strength

  and concern.

• To take a lead role in the presentation of analytical data to internal and external stakeholders

  to present opportunities for collaboration and improvement.

• Support the transition to more automated ways of working through the exploration of new

  technologies and AI.

• Supporting the creation, delivery, and ongoing development of category strategies throughout

  the commercial lifecycle through providing good quality and effective data development and

  analysis.

• Compiling, analysing and interrogating regional / local data including spend data, demand,

  specification and supplier information, and providing this analysis and statistical insight to the

  commercial team (and their stakeholders) to assist them in strategy development and planning

  and to enable better informed decision making.

• Data gathering and analysis relating to shared/enabling services within policing, providing the

  evidence base to support the national shared/enabling services strategy and convergence plan.

• Ensure the procurement spend reporting and back office across all BLC Customers uses best

  practices on reporting for spend, cashable and non-cash able savings and provide reports that

  are used for reviews with the Home Office and finance communities.

• Conducting savings opportunities analysis and benchmarking, using market information

  gathered from multiple sources to identify future trends and contract development

  opportunities for all category commodities and shared/enabling services.

• Support Commercial teams in developing and managing the supplier management strategy to

  ensure effective category management delivery.

Qualifications & Accreditations

You are someone who has attained:

• A strong academic record ideally in an analysis focused degree or economics, finance or Business Studies.

• Certified Microsoft accreditation in Microsoft Office or Power BI (desirable)

Experience & Knowledge

You are someone who has:

• Strong organisational skills with the ability to deliver multiple / parallel projects.

• Excellent analytical skills, with ability to develop demand and commercial management summaries.

• A proven background of developing KPIs and benchmarking processes aligned to business requirements.

• Ability to design monitoring systems for workload planning and delivery.

• Commercial / procurement experience gained within the public sector or large private sector organisation (desirable).

• Prince 2 or a robust knowledge of project management methodologies (desirable).

• Strong commercial acumen and in depth understanding of the commercial lifecycle (desirable).

• Experience of working as part of a procurement or commercial team (desirable)

  Business process modelling (lean six sigma and / or Visio skills) (desirable

Skills

You are someone who is:

• Good verbal and written communication skills to ensure analytical insights are understood and used.

• Strong stakeholder manager skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders both internally and externally.

• Demonstrable experience in developing balanced scorecards.

• Excellent professional IT skills across the Microsoft Office suite including visualisation tools such as Power BI.

Personal Qualities

You are/have:

• Analytically minded with the ability to assimilate and apply new techniques and knowledge quickly to deliver insights and solve problems.

• Ability to work under pressure and to tight deadlines.

• A dedication to teamwork and collaboration.

• Desire to learn and develop.

Our Values

Our values guide our behaviour. They inform how we act, the decisions we make and how we collaborate with each other and the organisations we work with. They were shaped by our team, purposefully designed to ‘inter-connect’. They remind us of ‘how to be’ in all we do and strive to achieve as a diverse and agile company.

• Be the best

• Be responsible

• Be a team

• Be open

• Be the difference

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

We foster a work environment that is inclusive as well as diverse, where our people can be themselves. We value every idea and perspective towards helping us to evolve and innovate.

What We Offer - Total Rewards Package

• Starting salary £53893 p.a. (DOE dependent on experience)

• Quality equipment for successful remote working, laptop, mobile phone, monitor, chair & desk and a Welcome ‘kit box’

• 12% employer pension contribution

• Support for your development for your Role and future career development (a framework to achieve this)

• Pension salary sacrifice scheme

• Life insurance 4 x salary

• 28 days annual leave (rising on service) plus paid bank holiday leave

• Birthday Leave (1 x extra day per year to be used in birthday month)

• Occupational sick pay

• Wellness – free vouchers for eye test and flu jab

• Employee Assistance Programme for health and wellbeing

• 1 x annual professional subscription

• Learning Management System – access to free training & e-learning (more than 80,000 learning resources)

CLOSING DATE: Wednesday 30 September 2026

POTENTIAL INTERVIEWS: To be confirmed

*Please let us know confidentially if you require any adjustments in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience, this can be prior to applying or when you apply.

“The legal bit”

The successful applicant will be subject to pre-employment checks including medical screening and vetting (carried out externally NPPV3 & SC* ) due to the nature of our business this is important. As standard you will need to satisfy:

• Employment eligibility check (right to work in the UK)

• Residency qualification (meaning you must have a 5 year 'checkable history' in the UK, ideally you have been and you are a resident in England or Wales for the last 5 years).

• Employment references (last 3 years or educational / personal reference where applicable)

*NPPV3: Vetting process | Warwickshire Police

This level of vetting grants the applicant to have unsupervised, unrestricted access to police premises and systems and could include those working in areas where the police roles have been identified as designated posts. NPPV3 allows access to classified police material or information up to SECRET and occasional access to TOP SECRET

Clearance at SC level, sits alongside NPPV3 allows applicants access to a higher level of secure information and systems.