Lead Analyst

Lead Analyst

£55,000-£65,000 + up to 20% bonusUK - Remote (London office available, 2 days/week if local)

Are you an experienced Analytics professional looking to step into a true deputy leadership position within a high-impact data team? I'm hiring for a Lead Analyst role at a large, mission-driven organisation in the education space, working across international recruitment, marketing, and student progression. This is a role with real ownership, visibility, and progression within the analytics function.

You'll report into a Senior Data Analytics Lead who is balancing both strategic and hands-on responsibilities, and now needs someone who can take the reins operationally, lead a small team, and elevate analytics maturity across the organisation.

• Lead and mentor a small analytics team (2 Analysts + Data Executive), setting high standards for delivery.
• Act as the primary analytics partner for Marketing, International Recruitment, Product, and Operations, turning data into decision-ready insights.
• Own BAU reporting across pipeline, conversion, enrolment performance, and agency activity.
• Build robust Power BI data models and dashboards end-to-end - including semantic layers and scalable modelling patterns.
• Partner with IT/Data Engineering to re-engineer pipelines and align on data requirements as the business migrates to a new data platform.
• Support ongoing migration projects (Looker/Tableau Power BI; BigQuery Fabric).
• Improve KPI consistency, reporting standards, and analytics best practice across the function.
• Contribute to early forecasting and predictive initiatives alongside Data Science.

Must-haves:

• 5+ years in analytics/BI roles with proven team leadership experience.
• Advanced SQL and the ability to review and coach others on code quality.
• Power BI expertise, not just building dashboards, but modelling data end-to-end (semantic models, DAX, data modelling best practice).
• Strong communication skills and confidence working with non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience delivering meaningful business impact (clear outcomes, not just outputs).

Nice to have (but not required):

• Background working with marketing, recruitment, commercial, or customer-facing teams.
• Experience with data warehouses like BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure or similar.
• Exposure to Looker, Tableau, or BI migration projects.

• High autonomy - you'll be the go-to operational leader for analytics.
• Strong progression - the Senior Lead was promoted quickly; this role is positioned as next in line.
• Real impact - your insights influence student recruitment and global education access.
• Modernisation roadmap - migration to Power BI and Fabric, re-engineering pipelines, defining metrics.
• Global exposure - stakeholders across multiple regions, plus travel opportunities.

• £55,000-£65,000 base
• Up to 20% bonus
• Remote-friendly, with London office options
• Strong benefits and development support