Principal Analyst – Hospital Analytics

Principal Analyst (Hospitals Analytics) | Shape the Future of Healthcare Insight
Remote-first UK | Quarterly Away Days & Monthly Team Meetings
£55,172 (£61,028 for candidates living within the M25)
Permanent role

Do you enjoy leading high-performing analytical teams, influencing strategy, and using data to improve healthcare outcomes on a national scale?
We're recruiting a Principal Analyst to lead a large analytics function focused on hospital services across England. This is a genuinely purpose-driven opportunity where your work will directly support the assessment and improvement of services including maternity, surgery, cancer care, neonatal services, and wider hospital performance.
Leading a team of Senior Analysts, Analysts and Associate Analysts, you'll be responsible for delivering analytical content that informs inspection activity and helps healthcare leaders understand quality, performance, and patient outcomes across the NHS and wider care sector.

What you'll be doing:
Leading a multi-disciplinary analytics team, setting direction and ensuring high-quality delivery across a large and complex portfolio
Working closely with national clinical leads, senior stakeholders, and subject matter experts to translate healthcare challenges into actionable insight
Overseeing the ingestion, transformation, management and delivery of large-scale healthcare datasets
Driving the development of self-service data products and analytical pipelines that empower stakeholders to access and use data effectively
Managing competing priorities across multiple national programmes covering areas such as maternity, surgery, cancer care and wider hospital services
Championing best practice in analytics, data governance, visualisation and storytelling

We're particularly interested in leaders who bring:
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving capability
Experience leading and developing analytical teams
Excellent stakeholder management skills and strategic awareness
Strong technical understanding of SQL, Power BI and Excel
Experience working within Azure environments preferable
Exposure to Microsoft Fabric (useful but not essential)
The ability to balance multiple priorities and deliver in a fast-paced, high-volume environment
Experience working with healthcare, clinical, patient, regulatory or public sector data would be highly beneficial, although we're open to exceptional analytics leaders from other complex data environments.

Why join?

Flexible and remote-first working
Condensed hours considered (including 4-day working patterns)
Flexible start and finish times
Travel expenses paid for team meetings and away days
The opportunity to influence healthcare quality and outcomes at a national level

If you're looking for a role where leadership, analytics and purpose come together, we'd love to hear from you.