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About the role

North Northamptonshire Council is on a significant data maturity journey. Our Data Strategy sets a clear ambition that decisions across the organisation will be informed by high-quality data at operational, tactical and strategic levels.

To achieve this, we are investing in modern data infrastructure, building a consistent approach to analytics and governance, and developing the skills and capability of our workforce. At the heart of this is the implementation of a new corporate data platform and a Data Centre of Excellence (CoE), designed to bring together expertise, standardise approaches and improve the quality, consistency and impact of data-driven insight across the Council.

We have already made strong progress, including developing Power BI dashboards and implementing Microsoft Fabric as our new enterprise data platform. Over the next phase, we will expand this platform across our core systems, ensuring that by 2029 our largest services are underpinned by a modern, integrated data environment.

The Business Intelligence Manager will play a critical leadership role in this journey—leading teams, shaping the use of data across the organisation, and embedding a culture where insight drives decision-making and service improvement.

What will you be doing?

You will lead a team of analysts to deliver high-quality business intelligence and insight that informs decision-making across a wide range of Council services. This includes ensuring the delivery of reliable, robust data and analysis, using modern tools such as Power BI, to support operational management, performance reporting and long-term planning.

You will be responsible for corporate performance reporting and the development of the Council’s Performance Management Framework, providing expert advice and analysis to senior leaders, including Corporate Leadership Team, Executive and Scrutiny.

A key part of the role will be contributing to the development of the Data Centre of Excellence—helping to implement consistent standards for data analysis, governance and reporting, and building a more coordinated, resilient and professional analytical function across the Council.

You will support the ongoing rollout of the Council’s data platform, including the use of Microsoft Fabric to integrate, transform and analyse data from core business systems. This will involve improving data quality, developing new analytical products, and enabling services to make better use of data in their day-to-day work.

Alongside this, you will lead on statutory returns, complex analysis such as needs assessments and modelling, and the prioritisation of analytical work across competing demands. You will also play a key role in service transformation, using evidence and insight to support improvement programmes and policy development.

About you

You will be an experienced analytical leader with strong technical and strategic capability, able to translate complex data into clear insight and influence decision-making at senior levels. You will have experience working with large and complex datasets, applying statistical methods and analytical techniques to generate meaningful conclusions.

You will bring strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to plan and prioritise work across a team, maintain high standards of quality, and support the development of others. A key expectation is that you are able to lead change—helping teams adopt new tools, approaches and ways of working in a developing data environment.

You will have a good understanding of data governance, information management and the importance of data quality, alongside experience of using modern analytical and visualisation tools. You will also be comfortable working across organisational boundaries, building relationships with stakeholders and influencing outcomes.

Above all, you will be motivated by the opportunity to shape how data is used in a large public sector organisation—helping the Council move from fragmented and developing data practices towards a more mature, integrated and strategic use of data, in line with its ambition to reach higher levels of data maturity over time.

If you have questions about the role, please email Tom Barden, Head of Performance, Intelligence and Partnerships, tom.barden@northnorthants.gov.uk. Interviews will be held in person in North Northamptonshire on 6, 7 and 10 August.

Our Benefits

Here at North Northamptonshire Council, we’re transforming for the better, using all our creativity and imagination to create the best life for our local people.

You’ll find that we have a wide range of careers that may be more surprising than you think!

Why choose us?

We offer a vibrant working environment with:

• a competitive salary
• a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
• lots of opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
• generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
• hybrid and flexible working arrangements, where practicable for service needs to help you with a healthy work-life balance.

We provide a range of great benefits such as an Employee Assistance Programme, an Employee Benefits Scheme, wellbeing support, travel rates at HMRC rates, as well as supporting a range of active Employee Network Groups.

About us

Our Values and Behaviours

Our values define who we are and how we operate, by forming the foundation for how we interact with our customers, colleagues and provide our services. They are also at the forefront of our decision making and delivery and are:

Customer-focused
Respectful
Efficient
Supportive
Trustworthy

Our key commitments help ensure that the priorities we make, now and in the future, maintain the necessary breadth of focus in those areas that we believe matter most.

Disability Confident Employer

We are proud to be a recognised Disability Confident Employer and is committed to providing an inclusive recruitment process and will offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role.

Our Employment and Disability Service provides bespoke support to individuals facing barriers to employment, helping them work towards their goals to start, stay and succeed in employment. For further information please click here The Employment and Disability Service (EADS) | North Northamptonshire Council

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