People Insights Lead

Job title: People Insights Lead

Location: Preston/Glasgow/Frimley – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £41,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the People Insights Manager and Senior People Insights leads to answer People (HR) related business questions by examining data, testing hypothesis and scenarios and conducting analysis of People data (e.g. Success Factors or other HR information systems reports / dashboards)

• Working closely with the Shared Services HR Forward Deployed Analytics & Reporting team to ensure stakeholder requirements are met e.g. input into the scoping & designing of new dashboards/ reports and enhancing existing dashboards

• Providing required data that cannot be accessed through self service

• Structure evidence and translate the analysis to identify useful insights. Clearly communicate key analysis insights and recommendations through presentations, reports and discussions and support stakeholders to drive business change.

• Taking responsibility for elements of Data Analytics projects and work towards leading small/medium sized projects

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Be confident using Excel and PowerPoint and creating graphs / visualisations and presenting

• Wish to further analytics skills and contribute to improving the Business through providing valuable insights which will inform data led decisions

• Proven experience with attention to detail looking for trends, patterns, anomalies in data and linking them with the current business environment

Desirable:

• Experience using tableau

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The HR Data & Technology Team:

As part of the Head Office team, you’ll be at the heart of this endeavour – working closely with our air, maritime, land and cyber and intelligence businesses to support our customers around the world. Working across a range of internal datasets and external benchmark opportunities, the role requires an ability to analyse complex data, identifying key trends, risks and opportunities and articulating these to stakeholders across the Organisation, acting as part of a consultancy model to guide the decision-making process.

This role will provide the opportunity to develop your career within BAE Systems, building relationships with senior stakeholders and increasing your exposure across multiple business areas. Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 15th September 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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