People Data and Systems Manager
Digital Catapult is a UK deep-tech innovation organisation accelerating the practical application of advanced digital technologies.
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About Digital Catapult
Digital Catapult is an independent, not-for-profit member of the Innovate UK Catapult Network. It bridges industry, government, investors and academia to help deep-tech businesses scale, improve industrial supply-chain resilience and advance data-driven open future networks through collaborative R&D, specialist facilities, innovation programmes, ecosystem support and membership services.
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About the Role
You will lead the development and administration of people systems, reporting, and analytics. You will maintain data quality and security, turn workforce data into actionable insights, improve people processes through automation, and support organisational change with robust analysis and recommendations.
Requirements
- Experience in People Systems, HRIS, People Analytics, or workforce reporting.
- Ability to analyse complex data and present meaningful insights to varied audiences.
- Experience creating dashboards, reports, and management information using Excel, Power BI, or similar reporting platforms.
- Knowledge of data governance, GDPR, data quality, and data security.
- Stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration skills.
- Successful completion of Baseline Personnel Security Standard clearance before starting employment.
Responsibilities
- Lead administration of people systems and maintain data integrity, security, and performance.
- Develop and maintain people dashboards, reports, and workforce analytics.
- Provide actionable insights to support strategic decision-making.
- Lead continuous improvement of people processes through automation, efficiency, and user-experience improvements.
- Manage statutory and organisational diversity, workforce, and people-metric reporting.
- Support people projects and organisational change with workforce data, analysis, and recommendations.
- Ensure employee-data management complies with GDPR, data-governance standards, and best practice.
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave, bank holidays, and 3 days between Christmas and New Year.
- Double-matched pension contributions up to 10% of salary.
- Discretionary company bonus.
- 4% of salary for selected benefits, including a health cash plan, private medical insurance, additional holiday, or pension contributions.
- E-Vehicle Scheme, Cycle2Work, Tech Scheme, gym discounts, Give As You Earn, and PerkPal.
- Life insurance worth four times salary.
- Free Employee Assistance Programme and financial wellbeing advice.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
- Hybrid working with office attendance two days per week for most roles.
- Company social events and free office snacks.