Birmingham
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. What you'll be doing • 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., • 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., • 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.Why this role is great, • 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.Salary & package, • £55,000-£65,000 base, • Up to 20% bonus, • Remote-friendly, with London office options, • Strong benefits and development support