Simply Business

Lead Data Analyst

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London, Greater London, England

Hybrid

Senior level

Fintech • Information Technology • Insurance • Software

We Protect The Small Businesses You Love.

The Role

As a Lead Data Analyst, you will provide analytical insights, enhance dashboards, collaborate on data quality, mentor junior staff, and drive business improvements.

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Here’s what you’ll be doing:

Are you ready to be a Data Champion? We are looking for an experienced and proactive Lead Data Analyst to join our growing, international, and award-winning data team. This isn't just a role; it’s an opportunity to become a strategic partner within the business, aligning our analytics efforts directly with critical business outcomes and driving innovation using the latest Big Data technologies. If you thrive on autonomy, love solving complex problems, and are eager to shape the future of a rapidly evolving organisation, this is your chance.

We're looking for someone who is:

An expert in SQL with a minimum of 6+ years of professional experience as an Analyst or Data Scientist.
Proven to have a sharp aptitude for problem-solving and rigorous experimentation, including A/B testing.
A true collaborator, skilled at engaging effectively across diverse cross-functional development teams.
Educated with a degree in a STEM, Economics, or similar quantitative field.
Confident in their analytical capability, ready to challenge the status quo and drive organizational improvements.
Eager to continuously improve analytical techniques, proactively leveraging the capabilities of our data science and data engineering teams.

As our Lead Data Analyst you'll:

Deliver high-quality analytical insights and actionable recommendations to support Product Teams and help them meet their objectives.
Pioneer and execute customer journey analysis to uncover critical user behaviors and pain points.
Build and maintain robust dashboards and self-service query tools, ensuring business stakeholders have access to best-in-class tooling.
Work closely with data engineers to evolve existing data sets and pipelines, ensuring data quality and accessibility.
Measure the vital impact of multi-channel strategies, providing clarity on ROI and effectiveness.
Act as a mentor to more junior team members and work with managers to drive professional development across the analysis function.

If you're looking for a platform where your expertise translates directly into measurable business change, where you can move beyond simple reporting to genuinely champion a data-driven culture, and where your own professional growth is actively encouraged, then look no further. Join us, and turn data into definitive strategy. Apply Now!

About Simply Business

We insure small businesses and enable big dreams – not just for our customers, but for our people and communities too. With over 1,000,000 active insurance policies, we protect builders, bakers, landlords and more than 1,200 other trades.

We’re a technology company as well as one that sells insurance. That means we build, we fail, we learn and we improve. We’re a B Corp too, which recognises our strong track record of having a positive impact on people, society and the environment.

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What are the benefits of working at Simply Business?

We offer a great work-life balance where every team member has a manageable workload and the flexibility to work hybrid.

On top of the 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), we offer leave that suits your needs. Plus the option to buy five more days of holiday with your flexible benefits.

Our flexible parental leave allows you to approach an important time how you want – with six months full pay to the primary caregiver and four weeks full pay if you’re the secondary caregiver.

Our life event leave is an extra days leave every two years for those big moments in your life like moving house or your birthday. And as a thank you to our long-serving employees we offer a two week paid sabbatical after five years of service, then four weeks off after ten years of service.

And our core benefits can put your mind at ease with private medical insurance through BUPA, that covers any pre-existing condition. And a health cash plan that covers your everyday medical expenses.

We also make sure you’re compensated fairly with a competitive salary based on your experience and the market we’re in. Plus the potential to earn an annual bonus based on performance.

There’s access to the tools to support your personal development with programmes on our dedicated learning platform. As well as support for your mental health with access to counselling.

We’ll match what you put into your pension up to five per cent. And pass on a tax-free sum that’s four times your basic salary with our life assurance policy, with the option to increase it to ten times through our flexible benefit scheme

Our salary sacrifice car scheme gives you the option to buy a brand new, fully insured, and maintained car for a convenient fixed monthly amount taken from your gross salary (after 6 months service).

And our flexible benefits scheme gives you an allocated amount to use each year on benefits like critical illness cover, dental insurance, travel insurance, or a gym membership.

Ready to join us and drive our success as a high-performing team? Apply today.

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The Company

HQ: Boston, MA

1,100 Employees

Year Founded: 2005

What We Do

Simply Business is dedicated to making small business insurance simple and accessible. Our robust digital marketplace allows small business owners to find and buy the insurance they need online, matching them with coverage from multiple top insurers to offer choice, transparency, and value.

We have nearly 20 years of experience supporting small businesses, with over 1 million customers worldwide. Founded in the U.K. in 2005, Simply Business launched its U.S. operations in 2017 and today employs over 1,000 people across offices in London and Northampton in the U.K., and in Boston and Atlanta in the U.S.Simply Business is more than our name. It’s how we approach small business insurance.

Why Work With Us

Here at Simply Business we have five core values that we uphold in everything that we do: Learning, Empowerment, Authenticity, Pioneering, and Simplicity. Utilizing these values and embedding them into our culture makes SB a unique and great place to work, a place where every person is valued, a place where we get things done and have fun doing so.