Senior Strategy Analyst

"This vacancy is open to employees of Isle of Wight NHS Trust & Portsmouth Hospital University NHS Trust only" NHS Band 8a Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5 hrs Contract Type: Permanent To serve as the organisation's lead expert in forecasting, capacity planning, translating complex operational data into actionable insights that support strategic and operational decision-making. The post holder will work collaboratively with senior stakeholders across Operations, Finance, and other business functions to ensure resources, capacity, demand, and budgets are effectively aligned, while driving continuous improvement through analytics, reporting, and performance insight. While the post is hosted within the Analytics Team, the post holder will work closely with the Strategy, Research and Transformation Team, proactively providing them with the analytical insights they need to develop strategies and projects. Specific Core Functions - Supporting performance and planning activities across the group - Tracking, analysing, interpreting, forecasting and reporting on performance - Anticipating future analysis & information needs - Providing information to help improve the efficiency of service & changing practices. - Providing insights to inform the setting of performance targets & trajectories, using intelligence regarding the division, area, specialty or group - Providing ‘user friendly’ reports, dashboard, intelligence and data, accessible to staff in the divisions, areas, specialties being supported - Contributing to improvement; supporting performance reviews, audits and inspections, providing analysis, information and narratives For full job details and personal specification, please refer to enclosed job description. Essential - Educated to master's level or equivalent level of experience of working in specialist area. Desirable - Professional Registration. Experience Essential - Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. - Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes / practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation). - Experience working on tactical & operational matters and managing analytical services (preferably in the public sector) - Experience working on tactical & operational matters and managing analytical services (preferably in the public sector) - Experience of working with complex performance and information management scenarios while also developing and presenting insights and guidance of a very high quality. Desirable - Experience of leading a code-first analytical function, with experience using and developing open-source code, and ‘coding-in-the-open’. - Expert in open-source programming languages, such as Python/ R Skills and Knowledge Essential - A good understand of data quality and the impact that poor data quality can have on patients and the group - A good understanding of Information Governance, Data Sharing and Data Protection Principles - A working knowledge of GDPR and how it applies to our work