Lead Insight Specialist

Business Unit: Customer Experience, Customer Transformation & Operations 
Salary range: £36,800 - £51,000 per annum DOE + red-hot benefits
Location: Remote - work from anywhere within the UK

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An amazing opportunity for someone to join our Customer Operations – Performance Insight team, primarily specialising in understanding performance, monitoring trends, strategy, and benchmarking. If you are self-motivated, enthusiastic and ready to make a real difference to a successful and go-getting team then we are looking for you!  

You’ll focus on a variety of Customer Service KPI’s, strategy, optimisation, and supporting the Leadership team in achieving business objectives. You’ll work with our key stakeholders to understand our performance against the context of internal targets and the external market, whilst identifying opportunities and supporting the development and execution of our strategies. You’ll play a significant role in helping the business deliver against their data, customer service, and cost ambitions.  

What you’ll be doing…

• Creating, producing and presenting insights to relay timely and relevant Information/recommendations to key leadership stakeholders to facilitate business decision making and identify key risks and opportunities. 
• Handling and interpreting large data sets using statistical and analytical techniques to support the strategic goals of the business. 
• Designing and developing predictive tools and models to provide the insight needed for effective forecasting across Customer & Risk Operations. 
• Undertaking analysis of industry benchmark, external market, and economic information to provide key insights of current and future banking trends which will help shape the future plans of the Customer Ops team. 
• Collaborating with senior management across Customer Ops and the wider business, technical stakeholders in Customer Value, Strategy, Risk, Marketing, Finance, Commercial, and Business Intelligence.
• Chairing performance review forums with key stakeholders, providing good quality and thought-provoking material that turns insight into action. 
• Owning and managing end to end action plans ensuring key milestones are achieved. 
• Understanding the financial services products and distribution channels, supported by operational knowledge of organisational systems, processes, and the wider organisational data landscape. 
• Managing a team of Analysts (1-4 FTE), providing guidance, direction and general performance management in line with the Banks guidelines and principles.   

We need you to have…

• Expertise in guiding and contributing to the planning, design, development, and implementation of customer strategies and solutions. 
• Proficiency in key Microsoft applications such as Power BI, Teams, Excel, PowerPoint, and Word. 
• Strong aptitude for logical data analysis and interpretation, complemented by a solid background in mathematical, statistical, or technical domains through advanced education or extensive professional experience. 
• Experience using data to inform commercial and strategic decisions, analyse trends, explain performance, and make recommendations to senior stakeholders in the business. 
• Strong oral and written communication and presentation skills, with the ability to convey complex messages and ideas to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels of the organisation. Gravitas with excellent influencing, engagement, and communication skills across all levels of the business. 
• Understanding of financial services, products and distribution channels, supported by operational knowledge of organisational systems, processes, and the wider organisational data landscape. 
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment with tight deadlines whilst delivering with quality and accuracy. 
• Proven work experience utilizing statistical software such as SAS,R, Python, Minitab, or similar analytical tools, combined with demonstrated proficiency in SQL and VBA programming.

Red Hot Rewards

• Generous holidays - 38.5 days annual leave (including bank holidays and prorated if part-time)​ plus the option to buy more
• Up to five extra paid well-being days per year​ 
• 20 weeks paid, gender-neutral family leave (52 weeks in total) for expectant parents and those looking to adopt 
• Market-leading pension
• Free private medical cover, income protection and life assurance
• Flexible benefits include Cycle to Work, wellness and health assessments, and critical illness 
• Ability to work anywhere in the UK​ (where the role allows) 

And there's no waiting around, you'll enjoy these benefits from day one.

Feeling insatiably curious about this role? Apply as soon as you can. If we’re lucky to receive a lot of interest, we may close the advert early and would hate you to miss out.

We're all about helping you Live a Life More Virgin, so happy to talk flexible working with you.

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