Lead Business Intelligence Analyst | The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	18 February 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	20 March 2026
Location:	Manchester, M20 4BX
Company:	The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7816970/413-103238-GMCA-MS

Summary

We are looking for a self-motivated and experienced senior analyst to join the Business Intelligence Team within The Greater Manchester Cancer Alliance. As a senior analyst, you will be leading on the intelligence elements of transformational projects within the Greater Manchester Cancer System that supports both operational improvements and progress towards the early diagnosis ambition.



Utilising strong communication skills, you will be able to present analytical outputs to a range of stakeholders ensuring message penetration at all levels.

You will have experience of working within healthcare, or a related discipline, in an analytical capacity. To balance existing skills within the team, we especially welcome applicants with robust SQL, Python or data science experience.

With support from your line manager and colleagues you will utilise your skills in dynamic work prioritisation, balancing evolving executive demands against long term projects.

You will have experience managing analytical resource and are able to delegate responsibilities, where appropriate, effectively.



Key areas of responsibility include:

· Working with colleagues to scope and produce new business intelligence products – including self-service dashboards and briefing documents.

· Effective communication of findings, including verbally or via written reports and visualisations.

· Responding to dynamic, time sensitive ‘ad hoc’ intelligence requests from the Alliance Executive

· Coordinating the deployment of analytical products, ensuring stakeholders are empowered to utilise them on a self-service basis.

· Working collaboratively with analysts within the wider Greater Manchester system, including within Hospital Trusts and the Integrate Care Partnership.

The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, treating over 60,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 15% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.

We provide radiotherapy through one of the largest radiotherapy departments in the world; chemotherapy on site and through 14 other hospitals; highly specialist surgery for complex and rare cancer; and a wide range of support and diagnostic services. We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years.

We run one of the largest early clinical trial units in Europe with over 300 trials every year. Cancer research in Manchester, most of which is undertaken on the Christie site, has been officially ranked the best in the UK.
• ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES



Leadership and expertise

To lead on delegated projects, identifying risks, issues and dependencies, considering best practice and current options and ultimately making decisions in the best interest of the project.
Pro-actively manage stakeholders, respond to and resolve conflict when this arises through facilitation or other appropriate mechanisms.
Be responsible for a high standard of work supporting the delivery of projects on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner.
Maintain the project initiation document and associated plans with regular team meetings to monitor progress and resources.
Demonstrate effective stakeholder management.
Support other project managers as and when required.
Take into account the impact of any change the projects will have on the business and oversee handover of any products to ensure full ownership and buy-in within the business Advocate the projects at senior and executive levels and ensure active engagement and sponsorship within NHS as a whole.
Ensure that the projects maintain business focus, have clear authority and that the context, including risks, is actively managed in alignment with the strategic priorities of NHS.
Engage with senior BI representatives from BI teams across GM.
Contribute to a collaborative working environment to share learning, innovation and resource.
Co-ordination of communication & flows of data and reporting at local and regional level.
Responsible for co-ordinating the activities, training and workload of the Band 5 analysts
Responsible for system management of the GM Cancer presence within the GMHSCP Tableau environment (Data Sources, Reports) including detailed configuration of systems permissions affecting access to patient identifiable information
Responsible for assessing and planning the equipment needs of the GM Cancer Information Function





Set-up and organisation

Ensure delegated projects and initiatives are delivered on time, to quality standards and in a cost effective manner, adjusting plans as required.
Contribute to the development of performance and governance strategies and the development and implementation of improvement programmes.
Look for opportunities to reduce inefficiency and maximise the use of resource across the Service, and act upon them to deliver.



Improving quality and outcomes

To contribute to a robust process and system to produce insightful Cancer performance reporting across the GM region within modern BI Infrastructure.
Develop population focused reporting working towards realisation of the GM Cancer Plan.
To manage the delivery of delegated Cancer analysis for Greater Manchester Health and Social Care Partnership (GMHSCP). These priorities will include assurance and accountability, commissioning, transformation, quality and safety, finance and policy and strategy development
To ensure that quality and outcomes are the focus of all analytical work undertaken
To ensure that clinical leadership is central to the delivery of all NHS England activities



Communication and support

To work closely with analysts in other key partner organisations, consistent with partnership agreements.
Able to use input from stakeholders as part of the wider context of work and understand potential sources of bias.
Can mentor others through understanding NHS context for their work.
To work closely with national and regional executives and their senior teams, championing the use of analysis and insight to improve decision-making on key priorities across NHS England
To develop strong networks with key internal and external stakeholders and partners to ensure alignment and coordination of work to maximise impact.



Data and information

Develop safe yet functional flows of data from the various sources of cancer data, both national and local to deliver a GM & GMEC system view.
Developing reports summarising status on issues, appraising outcomes, and providing progress reports for the Head of Department.
Collate as required, a range of information and lead appropriate analysis to develop robust business cases and contribute to project ‘products’.
Analyse, interpret and present data to highlight issues, risks and support decision making.
Undertaking risk assessments in line with the G&SCP risk assessment process
Develop efficient processes for data collection, transformation and extraction.
Develop robust and efficient datasets to feed the requirements of the business intelligence team. They will manage the dissemination of datasets to be available for data visualisation.



Planning, Development of Service and reporting

To use analytical techniques appropriately to improve decision making in support of NHS England’s core objectives.
To ensure that analytical resources are focused on areas where they can have maximum impact.
To develop excellent relationships with external providers of information and analysis and ensure alignment and fit.
Awareness and practice of NHS England’s relevant external processes for decision making in progressing options, business cases or policy development. For example, economic impact assessment, health impact assessment and strategic needs assessments.
They will manage projects to deliver key reporting enhancements to support the collaboration of existing work. They will develop and implement original and innovative solutions to BI problems across the system, to facilitate operational transformation.
Responsible for proposing and drafting changes, implementation and interpretation to policies, guidelines and service level agreements (SLA’s) which may impact service.
Proposes changes to own function making recommendations for other service delivery.




This advert closes on Wednesday 4 Mar 2026

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