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Senior Data and Performance Analyst
£51,000 - 56,000
The Best Connection
172 Waterloo Road, Birmingham
£51,000 - 56,000
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience in business performance or commercial analytics.
- Advanced data analysis skills (Excel, Power BI, or similar BI tools).
- Experience defining KPIs and building performance frameworks.
- Ability to model financial and productivity impacts.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to turn data into actionable insights.
- Experience managing or developing junior analysts.
- Desirable: Experience in recruitment or sales-driven environments.
- Desirable: Exposure to digital/product teams.
- Desirable: Knowledge of CRM or enterprise platforms (e.g., Salesforce).
- Desirable: Experience in KPI transformation or mature KPI environments.
Responsibilities
- Build a Business Performance Framework by developing and maintaining a structured performance framework aligned to organisational objectives.
- Define and refine KPIs across revenue, productivity, operational efficiency, and system adoption.
- Establish performance benchmarks and ensure consistent metric governance across departments.
- Conduct deep-dive analysis of operational and commercial performance to identify trends, inefficiencies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Model financial and productivity impacts of proposed changes (e.g., cost reductions, revenue uplift).
- Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for senior leadership.
- Serve as the go-to analytics expert for Sales, Operations, Marketing, HR, Senior Leadership, and Digital teams.
- Support key initiatives with data-driven recommendations and performance guidance.
- Design and oversee high-quality dashboards and reports while shifting reporting from reactive data provision to proactive performance insight.
- Ensure accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with business priorities in reporting.
- Quantify efficiency gains and productivity improvements through commercial modelling.
- Model ROI for digital initiatives, automation, and system enhancements.
- Provide evidence-based financial analysis to support business cases.
- Line manage and mentor junior analysts to elevate team capabilities from reactive reporting to structured insight generation.
- Implement standards, processes, and governance to ensure data quality.
Description
The Best Connection Group Limited is one of the UKs leading employee-owned temporary recruitment agencies with over 35 years of experience and 80+ branches nationwide. We support various sectors including driving, industrial, commercial, care, and aviation. We offer a competitive salary range of £51,000 – £56,000 depending on experience, along with excellent benefits including 30 days paid holiday, free on-site parking, a pension scheme, a Cycle to Work scheme, and an optional employee benefits scheme. After an initial probationary period, hybrid working is available. As an employee-owned business, we value contribution, collaboration, and shared reward through profit-sharing opportunities. Join us and be part of a culture that empowers insights, innovation, and results.
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