Network Data and Intelligence Analyst - Returners Programme
About the job.
Are you looking to return to work following a career break of 2 or more years? If you are an experienced professional looking to return to the workplace, this could be the perfect opportunity for you. To apply for this vacancy and join our Returners Programme, applicants must be returning from a career break of 2 or more years or have been freelancing or working in a home business, in that time.
We have an excellent opportunity for a Data and Intelligence Analyst to join our team at National Highways. You will be working to contribute to timely and effective data, analysis, intelligence/insight and visualisation to support decision-making and achievement of regional business objectives.You'll work with internal and external stakeholder to identify where analysis can inform decision-making concerning the strategic road network.
This is a part time role, working 18 hours per week. We have a hybrid working approach in place where 60% of your working week will be spent in the office, and 40% working from home. The role can be based from either our Birmingham or Nottingham office.
- Contribute to problem-solving and regional/national analytical projects using analytical capability and experience by applying analytical principles to produce practical and innovative solutions.
- Gather, monitor and analyse multiple datasets across safety, traffic, highway assets, customer and performance to inform and influence collaborative evidence-led decision making within Operations. Work with team members to draft balanced and objective conclusions and to highlight risks/opportunities.
- Support intelligent occupancy of the network via modelling traffic management and event impact on customer/economy.
- Develop and maintain working knowledge of a broad range of analytical and data visualisation software systems. Develop and maintain working knowledge of a broad range of datasets, National Highways databases and theory pertaining to the network and network/business performance across road safety, customer and delivery.
- Actively contribute to the national intelligence analyst group meetings, researching and sharing the latest analysis methodologies and systems.
- Experience in working with sets of data to extract meaningful insights and communicate information to different audiences effectively and work confidently with others to delivery projects.
- Good organisational skills with the ability to plan and prioritise own workload when faced with competing priorities.
- Experience of using structured problem-solving and analytical techniques to quantitatively and qualitatively explore and understand problems.
- Good understanding of data and information management principles and best practices.
- Experience of Microsoft Office products with advanced Excel skills and knowledge of a range of standard analytical tools, Geographic Information Systems (e.g. ARC GIS) and Structured Query Languages.
About us.
Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England's motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.
Operations is at the heart of keeping the strategic road network moving and ensuring our customers get the best possible experience when using our roads. We address over 39,000 customer enquiries every month, plan and deliver all maintenance activities on the network, drive efficiencies and improvements across our systems and roads, and respond to incidents across 4,500 miles of motorways and major A-roads that we manage.All to make sure National Highways customers have safer, smoother, and more reliable journeys.
External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.
We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.