Business Partner - Business Intelligence & Population Insights

Our vision for all residents in West Northamptonshire is that they will have healthy and independent lives with easy access to joined up advice and support which will help them to help themselves.    

West Northamptonshire Council delivers a broad range of critical services to residents across the authority, from Adults Social Care, Public Health, Housing Solutions to running libraries and leisure centres, major highways schemes and refuse collection. 

The Business Intelligence and Population Insights team is vital in shaping the council’s decision making, strategy development and delivery through the provision of high quality information and intelligence. The service helps drive forwards innovation and technological efficiencies through the insights it is able to provide. 

We’re on the lookout for a Business Intelligence & Population Insights Business Partner to become a critical link between our centralised Intelligence team and the council’s wider directorates. 

Our benefits

We offer a wide range of benefits to our employees, these include:

• Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 28 days annual leave per year, 29 days for senior managers (pro rata, depending on how many hours per week you work), plus bank holidays. An additional 5 days, linked to continuous service, and ability to purchase up to 6 weeks additional leave per year.
• Cycle to Work scheme. 
• Local Government Pension Scheme plus immediate life cover (3 times your annual salary from day one) and ill-health protection.
• Employee discounts with local and national retailers, days out, finance, health and beauty, travel and eating out plus lots more.
• Car Lease scheme via Tusker.
• Payment of professional subscription / membership - If your job description requires that you are registered with or are a member of a professional body, WNC will pay for your professional subscription or membership fees.
• Employee Assistance Programme - We have an employee support programme run by Health Assured, an independent, external organisation. Health Assured is available for you and your immediate family members, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year and includes telephone counselling, legal advice, bereavement support and medical information.
• Commsave- Free membership to Commsave Credit Union who provide a variety of savings accounts, loans, a monthly lottery draw and more!
• Ongoing training and development opportunities.
• A variety of flexible working options to support your work/life balance, including full or part time, term time, 9-day fortnight, etc. (subject to business needs).
• Our West Ways of Working – We want our workforce to thrive, and we equip our employees with the right technology to support hybrid and collaborative working, on or off site, depending on the role.
• Making a difference - If you want to use your skills and experience with an organisation that are genuinely invested in making a difference, are committed to improving people's lives, and whose success has a direct impact on the wellbeing of your family, friends and people in your local area, then West Northamptonshire Council is the place for you.

What will you be doing?

You will be one of a small team of Business Partners, each aligned to a council directorate and will become a main conduit between your allocated directorate and Business Intelligence. You will be responsible for shaping the service’s reporting requirements, identifying new lines of enquiry, presenting analysis and insights to senior managers and becoming a trusted Intelligence lead for the directorate supported. This is a proactive and creative role which focuses on working with senior managers within the organisation to drawing out the key messages and issues, forward planning and shaping service’s intelligence needs. 

We have a vacancy in our team to support children’s services which we are looking to recruit a Business Intelligence Business Partner to, it would be advantageous but not essential to have some experience or knowledge of data on education attainment and children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND). 

Your Responsibilities  

You will develop strong working relationships with key council services, presenting analytical insights to senior managers and imparting evidence-based analysis which is critical to their service delivery.  

You will actively seek improved ways of working, innovation, greater efficiencies and synergies across the wider Intelligence team. You will develop good knowledge and awareness of legislative requirements and new initiatives or priorities that impact on the service or area of work and encompass them into working practices.  

You will be adept at presenting information to audiences which don’t necessarily have a background in data analysis, simplifying and helping services make sense of complex data. You will be technically proficient in data manipulation and able to walk colleagues through the necessary steps as to how reporting measures are calculated. 

About you

You will need:  

• Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills to build strong working relationships across the organisation to ensure a collaborative approach to Business Intelligence activities. 

• A broad Business Intelligence skills base, with excellent technical knowledge and skills to be able to interrogate and manipulate data, and to simplify complex data. 

• An advanced understanding of performance information, statistical analysis and the importance of high quality data and its use. 

• Knowledge of how to understand, digest and reframe complex information requirements so that it can be delivered to a wide range of audiences varying knowledge levels 

• Sound strategic planning skills and the ability to work fast and accurately whilst prioritising competing demands 

• A flair for problem-solving and finding innovative solutions to address and improve 

• A proactive, flexible and enthusiastic attitude and able to contribute new ideas to the team 

About us

 

At West Northants Council, it’s about our people. People who thrive with ambition, bubble with new ideas, demand better ways of working, caring about every detail, and who never shy away from a challenge. Our culture is a gateway for new experiences. A place to forge new opportunities. To empower you in your career and unite you with like-minded people.

Our vision is ‘to make West Northants a great place to live, work, visit and thrive’. We truly stand by this and work hard every day to make this a reality. Our corporate values, THRIVE, stand for: Trust, High Performance, Respect, Innovate and Empower, they underpin everything we do and how we deliver services. 

Hear more from our Chief Executive, Anna Earnshaw, about what it's like to work at West Northants Council https://youtu.be/lV0EfeUF4aU  

We are committed to ensuring diversity, equality, equity, and inclusion is woven into the fabric of WNC and everything we do, to enable all colleagues to develop and maximize their full potential.  We are a disability confident employer, a member of the Armed Forces Covenant, and a Care Leaver Covenant partner

The following film was created by us to communicate our intentions - watch WNC colleagues explain what DEI means to us.

 

If you need additional support or reasonable adjustments during the application process, including needing the job description in another format or language, please email careers@westnorthants.gov.uk for support.

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