About the role
We are looking for a self‑motivated and experienced senior analyst to join the Business Intelligence Team within The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. As a senior analyst, you will lead the intelligence elements of transformational projects within the Greater Manchester Cancer System that support both operational improvements and progress towards the early diagnosis ambition.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with clinicians, executives, project managers and the wider Cancer Alliance to scope new projects and provide high‑quality, accurate analysis.
- Utilise strong communication skills to present analytical outputs to a range of stakeholders, ensuring message penetration at all levels.
- Balance evolving executive demands with long‑term projects, prioritising work dynamically.
- With support from your line manager and colleagues, utilise your skills to prioritise work and delegate responsibilities where appropriate.
- Scope and produce new business intelligence products – including self‑service dashboards and briefing documents.
- Effectively communicate findings, verbally or via written reports and visualisations.
- Respond to dynamic, time‑sensitive ad‑hoc intelligence requests from the Alliance Executive.
- Coordinate the deployment of analytical products, ensuring stakeholders are empowered to utilise them on a self‑service basis.
- Work collaboratively with analysts within the wider Greater Manchester system, including Hospital Trusts and the Integrated Care Partnership.
- Lead delegated projects, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and making decisions in the best interest of the project.
- Pro‑actively manage stakeholders, and resolve conflict when it arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
- Maintain a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost‑effective manner.
- Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management and support other project managers as and when required.
- Account for the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy‑in within the business.
- Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels, ensuring active engagement and sponsorship within NHS as a whole.
- Ensure projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that risks are actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.
- Engage with senior BI representatives from BI teams across Greater Manchester.
- Contribute to a collaborative working environment to share learning, innovation and resources.
- Coordinate communication and flows of data and reporting at local and regional level.
- Coordinate the activities, training and workload of Band 5 analysts.
- Manage the system of the GM Cancer presence within the GMHSCP Tableau environment (data sources, reports), including detailed configuration of system permissions affecting access to patient‑identifiable information.
- Assess and plan the equipment needs of the GM Cancer Information Function.
- Ensure delegated projects and initiatives are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost‑effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
- Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the implementation of improvement programmes.
- Identify opportunities to reduce inefficiency and maximise the use of resources across the service and act upon them to deliver.
- Contribute to a robust process and system to produce insightful cancer performance reporting across the GM region within modern BI infrastructure.
- Develop population‑focused reporting working towards realisation of the GM Cancer Plan.
- Manage the delivery of delegated cancer analysis for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership, covering assurance, accountability, commissioning, transformation, quality and safety, finance, policy and strategy development.
- Ensure that quality and outcomes are the focus of all analytical work undertaken.
- Ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all NHS England activities.
- Work closely with analysts in other key partner organisations, consistent with partnership agreements.
- Use input from stakeholders as part of the wider context, understanding potential sources of bias.
- Mentor others through an understanding of NHS context for their work.
- Champion the use of analysis and insight to improve decision‑making on key priorities across NHS England.
- Develop strong networks with key internal and external stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment and coordination of work to maximise impact.
- Develop safe yet functional flows of data from various sources of cancer data, both national and local, to deliver a GM & GMEC system view.
- Develop reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Department.
- Collate information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project products.
- Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision‑making.
- Undertake risk assessments in line with the G&SCP risk assessment process.
- Develop efficient processes for data collection, transformation and extraction.
- Develop robust and efficient datasets to feed the requirements of the business intelligence team, managing their dissemination to be available for data visualisation.
Qualifications
- Experience working within healthcare or a related discipline in an analytical capacity.
- Robust SQL, Python or data science experience.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to present analytical outputs to a range of stakeholders.
Location & Logistics
As part of this role you will be required to attend regular in‑person meetings at the Christie Hospital.
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