Data Analytics Manager

The Zellis group; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading HR & Payroll solutions provider in Peterborough seeks a Data Analytics Manager to lead data-driven insights. This role involves managing a team, developing analytics strategies, and driving data quality initiatives. Ideal candidates should excel in data management and possess strong communication and leadership skills while navigating the digital marketing landscape. A competitive benefits package is offered.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

25 days annual leave plus birthday off

Private medical insurance

Life assurance 4x salary

Enhanced pension scheme

Flexible benefits on personal well-being

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
• Experience with CRM and Marketing Automation systems preferred.
• Ability to capture and manage data effectively.
• Excellent communication skills across all levels.
• Strong understanding of marketing metrics and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive data analytics strategy.
• Oversee the Data Analyst and provide mentorship.
• Design and implement data quality improvement strategies.
• Support the delivery of a centralised marketing dashboard.
• Build and automate dashboards for campaign tracking.
• Identify reporting needs and implement automated data flows.
• Drive initiatives to reduce data quality issues.
• Ensure compliance with data practices and laws.
• Collaborate with marketing operations and CRM for data integrity.
• Provide reporting and insights for better decision-making.

Skills

Microsoft Excel

CRM systems knowledge (NetSuite, HubSpot)

Data management

Data interpretation

Verbal and written communication

Marketing tools knowledge

Digital marketing understanding

Team leadership

Job description

About the role

As the Data Analytics Manager, you will play a pivotal role in transforming raw data into strategic insights that drive decision‑making across the organisation. You will manage a small team and be responsible for the design and implementation of analytical solutions while ensuring data integrity, accessibility, and visualisation standards.

This role requires both a sharp analytical mindset and strong collaboration and management skills, as you’ll collaborate with cross‑functional teams to identify business opportunities, track performance, and optimise outcomes. With a finger on the pulse of emerging technologies and data trends, you’ll help shape our data‑driven culture and elevate how we understand our customers, prospects, operations, marketing performance and growth.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute a comprehensive data analytics strategy aligned with business objectives
• Oversee the Data Analyst, providing mentorship, guidance, and performance management
• Design and implement a data quality improvement strategy to resolve existing issues
• Help support the delivery and ongoing optimisations of a centralised marketing dashboard to provide unified visibility into campaign performance
• Build and automate dashboards to track ROI on marketing campaigns
• Identify reporting needs and implement automated data flows to reduce manual effort
• Drive initiatives to reduce data quality issues in HubSpot
• Build strategies for augmenting and enhancing data, including tech stack recommendations, people‑processes, and methods of obtaining first‑party data.
• Ensuring we are compliant with data‑practices and laws
• Work with the Head of Marketing Operations, and CRM Manager to ensure data flows between systems and strive for a ‘single source of truth’ of data.
• Provide reporting and insights to help the business make better decisions, and to help track marketing performance and value‑add
• Work with colleagues in the business to improve automation and data collection
  
• Promote a good data management culture across the business
• Help to reduce or remove manual reporting practices and improve efficiency
• Continuing to support the business in any data requests or requirements

Skills & experience

• Strong knowledge of Microsoft Excel,
• Some experience in system integrations, with expert knowledge of CRM and Marketing Automation systems (preferably NetSuite and HubSpot)
• Experience in data capture and data management
• Ability to interpret data, interpret trends and providing recommendations accordingly
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills at all levels
• In depth knowledge of marketing tools, metrics, and reporting
• Strong understanding of the digital marketing landscape
• Ability to lead a team, and agencies effectively

Benefits & culture

At Zellis we create market‑leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi‑award‑winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We’re passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation.

Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

• Unstoppable together.
• Always learning.
• Make it count.
• Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

• A competitive base salary.
• 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
• Private medical insurance.
• Life assurance 4x salary.
• Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
• A huge range of additional flexible benefits across financial & personal wellbeing, lifestyle & leisure.