Analytics Lead

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We are looking for an Analytics Lead who will lead our emerging Healthcare Analytics business with insights gained from aggregating and analysing healthcare data. The ideal candidate has broad experience leading advanced analytical projects, ideally some of which having been in healthcare. They must be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams. They will have experience in developing product pipelines, as well as building a team. The right candidate will have a passion for discovering solutions hidden in large data sets and working with stakeholders to improve business outcomes. 

Carnall Farrar is a management consultancy dedicated to improving health, care and public services more broadly. We support clients from end-to-end: from the formation of a leadership coalition, the development of strategy through to delivery. We help clients to get the most from their people, teams, organisations and systems. We take a multi-disciplinary approach to our work, bringing together strategic insight, problem solving and analysis, leadership and organisational development.

At Carnall Farrar it is our people who make us stand out from the competition. We have a multi-disciplinary team with a wealth of experience from across the healthcare sector and various consultancy firms. Our Partners bring decades of leadership at the top of public sector organisations and consultancy firms.

The organisation today includes both staff and associates who work together to ensure we provide our clients with the best possible service. We use associates who are highly experienced individuals that bring distinctive experience in programme delivery, finance, clinical services and organisational/leadership development and coaching. We also partner with many different organisations.

At present the majority of our work is in England where our primary clients are NHS organisations. Within the NHS, we work for individual providers and commissioners, groups of providers and commissioners coming together in whole systems, regulators and the department of health.

Using our extensive network of experts we are able to flexibly add carefully picked partners to our team delivering the highest standards of service to our clients. We pride ourselves in being able to meet even the most specialised needs of our clients - be that analytics, organisational development, executive coaching or full service consultancy.

Overarching Profile

-Minimum Bachelor's degree and relevant work experience; advanced degree in relevant area would be advantageous

-Strong leadership skills to work collaboratively with others in the organisation and help to build the analytics team

-Excellent analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills to evangelise analytics throughout Carnall Farrar

-Proficiency in the use of relational database systems and SQL essential; experience with unstructured data and NoSQL databases would be advantageous

-Experience in a range of web development technologies both to lead internal or external developers and help problem-solve as required: HTTP/CSS and Javascript essential; Node.js, Python, or Ruby highly desirable

-Familiarity and experience using statistics and machine learning techniques

-Healthcare experience highly desirable

-Agile software development experience desirable

-Commitment to giving and receiving constructive feedback and coaching to support development

-Strong drive and resilience

Responsibilities

-Lead and advance the overall analytics function

-Lead development of the product pipeline, including supporting product specification ahead of build

-Translate client requirements into client specification

-Visualise end products that don’t yet exist

-Visualise large amount of data in compelling ways

-Interact with clients particularly those within information teams, but also with other senior client stakeholders

-Build the team internally, e.g. recruiting to permanent and interim positions as well as manage use of external contractors

-Coach and develop team members which will include a rotation of analysts

-Support effective teamwork and interactions between the analytics team and core business to ensure good working relationships

-Manage team and projects to time, scope and resources including projects and product pipeline

-Have commercial insight into value of tools created, capture of revenue and managing cost of delivery

-Contribute to the development of commercial strategy and execute

-Manage commercial frameworks

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