Analyst Grange-over-Sands, England
Job description
Job reference number 297694
Analyst - Hybrid - Permanent
Competitive salary depending on relevant skills, experience and location
Annual bonus potential
Company pension scheme with highly competitive contribution rates
Generous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 27.5 days after 5 years service
Full time
Permanent
This will be an almost fully remote position with travel in to the London Farringdon Office only expected every couple of months for team meetings.
At Royal Mail we’ve served our communities for over 500 years, helping to lead and transform the postal delivery market on a global scale. Our journey to improve never stops, and that’s where we need you.
We’re currently innovating and transforming our business for the future, adapting towards a parcel delivery market, as well as taking environmental responsibility for our impact as a business. To get there, we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people.
Are you a proactive, focused individual with advanced numerical and analytical skills? Do you have a minimum of degree level qualification in Mathematics or Statistics and able to convey analytical insight to a non-technical audience? If so, we would love to hear from you. We are looking for a Data Analyst to join our National Processing team. Interested? More details and how to apply can be found below.
About the Role
This is a varied role where no two days are the same, reporting into the Senior Statistician, working within a team of Data Analysts, with no direct reports
You will be responsible for setting the design, developing and maintaining three large scale internal statistical surveys, that ensure Royal Mail delivers its regulatory obligations, and contributes to Royal Mail's financial statement reporting, Quality of Service measurement, costing, pricing, and customer contract monitoring.
The role also significantly contributes to improving the accuracy of mail volume information, which is key to costing, productivity, and capacity planning. The key stakeholders you will be working with cover the breadth of the business, including Royal Mail’s senior leadership. The role requires you to conduct deep dive analyses of large datasets, identify areas of interest or concern, communicate insight, and propose improvement opportunities.
There is also opportunity to work outside of these principal areas, by providing statistical expertise and data analysis guidance to support various projects across the business.
- Provide quality assurance of data and analyses from the internal surveys to ensure statistical robustness and fitness for purpose.
- Develop statistical weighting systems and have the ability to manipulate the system to test hypotheses and deploy change.
- Lead across all areas for the calculation of mail volumes using manual sampling counts, including sampling design, data validation and the calculation of mail counts, ensuring sound statistical methodology is employed throughout.
- Direct stakeholders to areas of potential non-compliance to understand root causes and apply corrective measures; monitor the resultant effect to ensure that issues have been resolved.
To truly excel in this role, you will possess, and be able to evidence, the skills and experience listed below:
- Advanced numerical and analytical skills.
- Minimum of Degree level qualification in Mathematics or Statistics.
- Good interpersonal skills: can quickly establish relationships, engage and influence people.
- Well-developed verbal and written communication skills, and able to communicate at all levels.
- Able to challenge areas of non-compliance with all levels of management.
- Able to work alone whilst meeting deadlines and operating as part of a virtual team of Data Analysts.
- The ability to plan and prioritise activities to best utilise time, adding value to the business and ensuring a healthy work/life balance.
- Have experience of working on large scale statistical surveys and applying statistical techniques to operational problems.
- Have in depth knowledge and experience of working with statistical package Quantum or similar.
- enerous annual leave offering of 25 days, plus bank holidays, increasing to 27.5 days after 5 years service
- Company pension scheme with competitive contribution rates
- RMG Share Schemes - partnership and matching share offer
- Family friendly support - enhanced maternity pay, paternity leave, adoption leave and shared parental leave
- Discounts and offers - there are more than 800 offers to help you save on things like groceries, days out, holidays and your household bills*.
- Supportive and generous company sick pay
- Access to our Feeling First Class service, providing both mental and physical wellbeing support
- Lifestyle benefits - You can purchase a car, bike, home technology or mobile phone, or choose from a range of health benefits and insurance products. You make regular payments from your salary, and so could save on tax*.
- Financial support - information and services to help you manage debt and grow your financial knowledge, with debt consolidation & savings plans*
- Your peace of mind with - Healthcare CashPlan, Dental Cover, Additional Life (life insurance) & Additional Life Partner, Hospital & Death Benefit Plans; Voluntary Critical illness & Voluntary Critical illness Partner
- Free & discounted RMG products - free keep safe & redirection, partner discounts
- Free stamps at Christmas
- Available only to perm employees
Your career in safe hands
At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.
We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.
An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.
Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.
Next Steps
The next stage of the selection process will be a a virtual interview consisting of competency based and role specific questions. We plan to hold interviews w/c 4th September
Trust forms the foundation of everything we do in Royal Mail. We want to be transparent about what kind of qualities we are looking for and build trust from the very beginning of your journey with us. The first step is your interview, and we mean ‘your’ interview. We want to give you the opportunity to shine. To enable you to do this, we will provide you with your interview questions ahead of the interview taking place. This will allow you time to prepare, and ensure you have your best examples in mind. Royal Mail Group values both trust, and our people.
We don’t expect every candidate to meet the full criteria for the role. If your experience looks a little different from the job requirements, but you feel you have the relevant skills to bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you.
Royal Mail are proud of our diverse employee network groups and the active role they play to support belonging and encourage a positive work environment. We are firmly committed to inclusion and passionate about our people representing the communities we serve.
We are happy to support your need for any adjustments during the application and hiring process. Please share the details within your application if required.
Closing Date: 29th August. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.
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