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Data Analyst

Southern Water group
Brighton
2 weeks ago
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time left to apply End Date: June 25, 2025 (12 days left to apply)
job requisition id JR4827
Closing Date
25/06/2025 Closing Date
25/06/2025 Job Title: Asset Data Specialist
Location: Hybrid working between our Falmer office and home
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 37 hours per week, Monday - Friday
Salary: Salary depending on skills and experience.
Southern Water is entering a truly exciting chapter – with the launch of AMP8, we're gearing up for transformational change and ambitious growth.
We’ve already welcomed one fantastic new team member, and now we’re looking for another talented individual to join us in a newly created role within our expanding team. This is a unique opportunity to be part of something fresh, forward-thinking, and full of potential – right from the start.
If you’re ready to make an impact and grow with a business that’s investing in the future, we’d love to hear from you.
Job Overview
The Asset Data Specialist will play a critical role in developing, maintaining, and analysing asset data within Southern Water’s systems, ensuring compliance with asset data governance standards while maintaining accuracy and integrity. This role will focus on leveraging data analytics, automation, and reporting tools to monitor data quality, identify trends, and drive actionable insights for continuous improvement.
About You
We are keen to hear from candidates with experience in in statistical analysis, data quality and confidence measurement. You’ll enjoy working with complex data sets but be able to effectively summarise for stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be experienced in implementing asset management planning and analysis processes, and able to use Enterprise Asset Management Systems.
Responsibilities will include:
55%
Collection, validation and Maintenance of asset data in Southern Water asset data systems, ensuring consistency across all platforms.
Reporting on asset data health and progress being made to improve data completeness and accuracy, analysing data trends and providing insight for decision making.
Data cleansing, processing and verification on any new or updated asset data.
25%
Maintaining asset data change management processes and monitor the effectiveness of Data Governance practices and adjusting these to remedy any issues.
20%
Accountable for delivering awareness sessions to the business to ensure that asset data management is understood, asset and system data is valued by the business and to drive the right behaviours towards safeguarding data quality.
Accountable for updating all processes to incorporate best-practice where applicable, to adjust for new types and sources of data and for responding to the impact of innovation in the business.
Responsible for promoting Systems Thinking in relation to the governance of asset and system data.
Package
This role will be full time Monday to Friday with a hybrid approach to working between our office in Falmer (Brighton) 2-3 days per week, and working from home.
We are offering a salary depending on skills and experience as well as other benefits including:
• Company and performance-related bonus
• Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
• Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
• Health benefits through a Cash Plan
• Two paid community volunteering days a year
• 25 days annual holiday
• Occupational health service
• Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
• We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Privacy Statement:
Please note: If you are an existing Southern Water employee, you will need to confirm within your application that your Manager is aware of your application.
All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.

time left to apply End Date: June 16, 2025 (3 days left to apply)
Interested in the role? We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications so if you are interested in the position please do send your application over today to ensure consideration.
Every Body Welcome We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require any reasonable adjustments to facilitate your participation in the recruitment process, please do not hesitate to let us know. We are dedicated to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to showcase their skills and experience.
We succeed together Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.
Company and performance-related bonus
Generous pension with up to 11% company contribution
Life assurance payment equal to four times your annual salary
Health benefits through a Cash Plan
Two paid community volunteering days a year
25 days annual holiday
Occupational health service
Perkbox benefits offering discounts and savings on several products and experiences
Study support may be available for job-related qualifications
We offer competitive maternity leave and flexible return to work options
Need flexibility in your work? Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role? #LI-Hybrid

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