Business Intelligence Analyst
| Posting date: | 19 March 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £50,145 to £54,696 per year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 March 2026 |
| Location: | North Shields, Tyne & Wear |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 3 days per week |
| Company: | Northumbria Police |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Salary Band 10, £50,154 – £54,696 (Please note it is Northumbria Police policy to appoint at the beginning of the band)
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Hub as a Business Intelligence Analyst.
We are seeking a dynamic and forward thinking individual to provide strategic direction across business development and organisational intelligence. In this role, you will shape and influence how insights are gathered, interpreted, and translated into meaningful action that supports transformation across the organisation. Your ability to anticipate emerging trends, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop innovative approaches will be key to driving positive, evidence based change.
Working collaboratively with senior leaders, you will ensure that high quality intelligence informs decision making at every level, enabling the organisation to deliver effectively against its vision and values. This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in shaping the future direction of the force, ensuring that our strategies, services, and culture continue to evolve to meet current and future demands.
What you’ll do
- Support organisational improvement by understanding current and future demand, applying business intelligence, and using statistical and analytical techniques to deliver high quality outcomes with meaningful business benefits.
- Contribute to the evaluation of business change initiatives through research, information analysis, and evidence based insight.
- Apply advanced concepts such as probability, statistical analysis, operational research, predictive modelling, mathematics, and programming to inform strategic decision making.
- Extract, manipulate, and interrogate data using analytical methods to generate insights, and develop, validate, and test analytical models.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to stakeholders at all levels, helping them identify innovative, data driven solutions that support effective decision making.
- Design and develop business intelligence tools and dashboards that transform complex data into intuitive visual insights, enabling the organisation to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Degree level education (or equivalent experience) with strong knowledge of business intelligence and statistical analysis.
- Proven experience gathering end user dashboard and reporting requirements, developing dashboards and reports, and communicating insights effectively to senior management and stakeholders across the organisation.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance competing priorities, meet deadlines, and influence the direction and management of strategic projects.
- Ability to understand policing strategy and business models, using business intelligence and data driven analysis to solve problems and inform strategic decision making.
- Effective networker and collaborative team player, credible in providing expert advice and consultancy to senior executives.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Intelligence Analyst with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview and an exercise. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Location: Agile, Middle Engine Lane Police Station and homeworking
Hours/Contract: 37 hours per week, permanent
The role
Here at Northumbria Police, we think our region is amazing! It takes a great deal of people from different backgrounds, with diverse skills and experience to serve our force area effectively, think you have what it takes to help us make a difference? This could be the perfect time for you to join us in our Corporate Hub as a Business Intelligence Analyst.
We are seeking a dynamic and forward thinking individual to provide strategic direction across business development and organisational intelligence. In this role, you will shape and influence how insights are gathered, interpreted, and translated into meaningful action that supports transformation across the organisation. Your ability to anticipate emerging trends, identify opportunities for improvement, and develop innovative approaches will be key to driving positive, evidence based change.
Working collaboratively with senior leaders, you will ensure that high quality intelligence informs decision making at every level, enabling the organisation to deliver effectively against its vision and values. This is a unique opportunity to play a central role in shaping the future direction of the force, ensuring that our strategies, services, and culture continue to evolve to meet current and future demands.
What you’ll do
- Support organisational improvement by understanding current and future demand, applying business intelligence, and using statistical and analytical techniques to deliver high quality outcomes with meaningful business benefits.
- Contribute to the evaluation of business change initiatives through research, information analysis, and evidence based insight.
- Apply advanced concepts such as probability, statistical analysis, operational research, predictive modelling, mathematics, and programming to inform strategic decision making.
- Extract, manipulate, and interrogate data using analytical methods to generate insights, and develop, validate, and test analytical models.
- Provide expert advice and guidance to stakeholders at all levels, helping them identify innovative, data driven solutions that support effective decision making.
- Design and develop business intelligence tools and dashboards that transform complex data into intuitive visual insights, enabling the organisation to identify trends and opportunities for improvement.
What you’ll bring
- Degree level education (or equivalent experience) with strong knowledge of business intelligence and statistical analysis.
- Proven experience gathering end user dashboard and reporting requirements, developing dashboards and reports, and communicating insights effectively to senior management and stakeholders across the organisation.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to balance competing priorities, meet deadlines, and influence the direction and management of strategic projects.
- Ability to understand policing strategy and business models, using business intelligence and data driven analysis to solve problems and inform strategic decision making.
- Effective networker and collaborative team player, credible in providing expert advice and consultancy to senior executives.
Just so you know
Our application form will help us understand how your work, education and life experience has prepared you for the role of a Business Intelligence Analyst with #TeamNP. To help support your application research what makes us tick here at Northumbria, the role you’re applying for and the values and behaviours that contribute.
The recruitment process will consist of the initial application form followed by a face-to-face interview and an exercise. Just so you know, you can save your application and come back to it any time prior to the closing date on the advert.
We are proud members of the Business Disability Forum, working together to improve the lives of disabled employees. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for the role. In cases of very high application volumes, we may prioritise those who most closely meet the criteria, applying the same fair approach for all candidates.
If you tell us that you have a disability, we can make adjustments to support you through the recruitment process (for example we can arrange extra time for tests or provide a sign language interpreter) You can get in touch with us via careers@northumbria.police.uk for any support regarding the application process. Please provide us with plenty of notice so we can ensure your visit goes smoothly.
If your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a Management Vetting (MV) form, therefore you must be a resident of the UK for a minimum period of 5 years to ensure vetting checks can be successfully performed. A job offer will be dependent upon vetting clearance, medical information, and references.
Terms of appointment
This is a permanent role subject to a six-month probationary period.
If you are successful in your application, you will have a six-month probation period with us where you will be unable to apply for any other post advertised internally or externally.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme
Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.