Strategic Business Insights and Analytical Manager

About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Business Insights and Analytical Manager to lead the transformation and development of our Business Insights & Analytics capability.

This is a key strategic role for an experienced Business Insights and Analytical leader who can combine commercial thinking, analytical expertise, strategic development and change leadership. We are looking for someone who can not only deliver high-quality insight, but also define a clear vision for the function, challenge existing ways of working and turn that vision into an actionable strategy.

You will lead the development of Business Insights & Analytics, building scalable services that add value for clients and support business growth.

What you’ll be doing

You will set the strategic vision and direction for the Insights & Analytics function, with overall accountability for its performance, evolution and impact across the business. You will establish the function as a trusted strategic partner to senior leadership, ensuring high-quality reporting and analysis translate into commercially relevant insight, influence key decisions and drive business performance.

Key responsibilities include:

• Define and deliver the strategy for Business Insights & Analytics.
• Lead change and improve how the function operates and delivers value.
• Develop commercially valuable analytics and insight services for new and existing clients.
• Partner with Business Development and client teams to strengthen proposals and identify growth opportunities.
• Build scalable analytics solutions that can be used across clients and therapy areas.
• Lead market analysis, segmentation, forecasting, targeting, territory design and opportunity analysis.
• Develop the function’s capabilities across people, processes, technology and data.
• Establish effective KPIs, dashboards and reporting frameworks.
• Improve data quality, governance and consistency.
• Use automation, predictive analytics and AI to improve efficiency and develop new capabilities.
• Turn complex data into clear insights, recommendations and actions.
• Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and act as the lead strategic insights partner.
• Lead and develop the Insights & Analytics team.
• Demonstrate the function’s contribution to client value, business performance and growth.

What you need to be successful?

We are looking for an experienced and commercially minded insights leader who has a track record of creating strategy, leading change and turning analytical capability into tangible business value.

You will be comfortable moving between strategic thinking and delivery. You will be able to assess where a function is today, define where it needs to go and bring people with you as you implement that change.

You will bring:

• Good understanding of pharmaceutical sales, customer engagement models and the NHS.
• Significant experience in commercial analytics, business insights or sales force effectiveness.
• Experience creating and implementing an insights, analytics or commercial strategy.
• Experience leading change and developing or transforming analytics or insights function.
• Strong commercial thinking, with the ability to identify how analytics can create value and support growth.
• Experience developing new analytics services, propositions or capabilities.
• Experience in market analysis, segmentation, forecasting, territory design and performance reporting.
• Confidence working with senior stakeholders, challenging thinking and influencing decisions.
• Proven experience leading and developing high-performing teams, building capability and creating a culture of excellence and continuous improvement.
• Ability to turn complex data into clear commercial recommendations.
• Strong communication, presentation and storytelling skills.
• Advanced Excel and experience with Power BI, Tableau, Qlik or similar tools.
• Ability to turn strategy into clear plans and deliver them.
• Strong track record of working cross-functionally and partnering with key internal or client facing senior stakeholders to translate business needs into insight-led commercial action.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to shape the future of a strategically important capability within Inizio Engage UK.

You will have the scope to set the direction for Business Insights & Analytics, build new capabilities and influence how insight is used across the organisation.

The role offers the opportunity to move beyond traditional reporting and analytics, developing a function that acts as a strategic partner to the business and our clients. You will help create new insight led solutions, strengthen our client proposition and establish analytics as an increasingly important contributor to business growth.

For someone who enjoys building, transforming and creating, rather than simply maintaining an existing function, this is an opportunity to make a significant and visible impact.

Our commitment

Inizio Engage UK is part of Inizio. We are committed to creating an inclusive, diverse and supportive working environment where everyone can thrive.

We welcome applications from all backgrounds and are proud to be an equal opportunities employer.