Business Intelligence Specialist

£49,387 to £56,515 a year PA

• Provide specialist business intelligence and analytical support to the two-year productivity and efficiency programme across UHL and UHN.
• Work closely with Deloitte and internal teams to analyse complex datasets and identify cost-saving, productivity and efficiency opportunities.
• Develop accurate reports, dashboards and performance information against key indicators.
• Create proactive analytical systems that help predict performance and enable action before issues arise.
• Present complex findings clearly to clinical, operational, financial and senior management teams.
• Support better use of data in business, operational and performance-management decisions.
• Provide specialist advice on data collection, analysis, reporting and interpretation.
• Analyse complex data to identify productivity, efficiency and cost-saving opportunities.
• Develop accurate datasets, dashboards, performance measures and predictive analysis.
• Present clear, evidence-based findings and recommendations to clinical, operational and senior stakeholders.
• Build effective relationships with project partners and teams across the Group.
• Support project delivery, strategic planning and service improvement.
• Provide specialist analytical advice and promote effective use of information.
• Maintain data quality, confidentiality and compliance with Trust policies.
• Manage competing priorities and work flexibly across UHL sites.

The Business Intelligence Specialist (BIS) is an essential member of the BI team providing dedicated support to the Deloitte Team supporting the 2 year project to identify opportunities to improve productivity and efficiency across the UHL Clinical Management Groups.

This is a challenging role providing in-depth, specialist informatics support, developing reports and recommendations by analysing highly complex, multi stranded data to performance manage our users.

You will play an active part supporting Deloitte in providing robust data sets, reports and dashboards to aid the development of improved performance management against key KPIs as well as identifying options which support and inform commercially viable and profitable working.

• Educated to degree level (or relevant experience) and 3 years information and analysis management.
• Significant specialised knowledge
• At least 2 years' experience gained in an NHS analyst role
• Broad experience of using information derived from large and complex data sets
• Capacity to work with colleagues across all disciplines and at every level within the organisation.
• Capacity Planning and market assessment
• Highly specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and practice.
• In depth specialist knowledge information analysis.
• Excellent Knowledge of NHS Information terminology
• Specialist knowledge of Payment By Results
• Project Management skills
• Understanding of NHS performance monitoring processes
• In depth knowledge of the national and local health context.
• Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's Values and Behaviours
• Approachable, reliable, decisive, tactful, well-motivated, respectful and supportive.
• Provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to various groups.
• Evidence of building effective working relationships with clinical leaders, partner organisations and other stakeholders
• Persuade CMG managers of the respective merits of different options,innovation and new opportunities
• Manage conflict
• Required to judge highly complex facts/situations requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of a wide range of options.
• Design of information systems to manage planning and management of resources
• Excellent numeric skills.
• Business case development
• Analytical and interpretation of highly complex information and ability to translate into easily understood messages.
• Ability to manage effectively conflict from senior teams when opinions challenge the data presented
• Ability to deliver complex statistical presentations to staff
• Technical expertise in data analysis such as Excel, Business Objects, SQL, QLIK, Power BI
• Capacity Planning and market assessment analysis
• Ability to concentrate for long periods of time on highly complex and multi stranded analysis

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Leicester

Leicester

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

https://www.jobsatleicestershospitals.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

10 November 2026

Agenda for change

Band 7

Fixed term

24 months

Full-time