Commercial Data Analyst Officer
Salary & Grade £39,274 per annum (pay award pending) Grade 7
Location Wellington House, Leeds / Hybrid
Hours Full time 37 hours per week
Tenure Permanent
Closing date: Sunday 3 August 2025 at 11:55pm
Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share.
We currently have a vacancy for a Commercial Data Analyst to join our Commercial Team.
As a Commercial Analyst, you will provide detailed data analysis and market intelligence to support operational commercial activity. This involves designing and delivering effective reporting, dashboards, and data visualisations that offer detailed information on market segments, position, and trends.
You will also proactively develop the Combined Authority’s commercial business intelligence by creating self-service intelligence products, including interactive dashboards, to promote data-driven decision-making on strategic, operational, and financial issues.
Your work will involve developing and maintaining automated data processes to feed these web-based dashboards, increasing efficiency and reducing time-to-insight. Additionally, you will undertake advanced analysis to generate insights that shape and influence commercial strategy, policies, and operations, disseminating these insights to advise senior managers, local authority partners, and politicians.
Our Offer
Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including:
· 28 days Annual Leave (increasing upon years of service) plus Bank Holidays.
· Generous Employer-Contribution Pension Scheme.
· Free Travel on rail and buses across West Yorkshire with the MCard (Zones 1-5).
· Flexible Working Practices with Health & Wellbeing initiatives, including agile working options, as well as a generous flexi-time scheme to ensure you achieve the best work/life balance and career goals.
· Bright, airy, modern office space, with all latest technology, just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station.
The Role
Reporting into the Commercial Policy, Process and Systems Manager, your key responsibilities will include:
· To provide detailed data analysis and market intelligence in support of operational commercial activity.
· Design, develop and deliver effective reporting, dashboards and data visualisation that provide detailed information on market segments, position and trends.
· Proactively drive the development of the Combined Authority’s commercial business intelligence through the creation of a coherent suite of self-service intelligence products (including interactive dashboards), ensuring they are responsive to business needs, whilst maximising their reach to promote data-driven decision making relating to key strategic, operational and financial issues.
· Develop and maintain semi- and fully-automated data processes to feed web-based interactive dashboards to increase efficiency and reduce the time-to-insight.
· Undertake a range of advanced analyses to generate insight to shape and influence commercial strategy, commercial policies, and commercial operations in respect of the
Combined Authority’s Commercial activity, disseminating these as insights to advise senior managers across the Combined Authority, local authority partners, politicians and the adult skills provider community.
About You
You will have the following key skills, attributes, education and experience:
· Educated to degree level or equivalent, with relevant education/ experience.
· Practical experience of successfully performing in a similar role.
· Experience of working in a commercial function or organisation.
· Experience of effectively contributing to team objectives.
· Experience of successfully identifying appropriate communication channels to deliver information.
To Apply
If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form.
Further Information
The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity. or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage.
Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met.
Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis
