Associate Reporting and Performance Lead

As an Associate Reporting and Performance Lead, you'll play a key role in developing the Council's commercial intelligence capability by:

• Developing and maintaining performance reporting frameworks that measure procurement performance against strategic priorities and organisational objectives.
• Producing high-quality management information, dashboards and performance packs that provide meaningful insight for senior leaders and governance boards.
• Analysing complex procurement, supplier, contract, spend and financial data to identify trends, risks, opportunities and areas for improvement.
• Working with colleagues across Commercial and Procurement Services to improve data quality, strengthen reporting processes and establish a trusted single source of information.
• Supporting audit, assurance and governance activity by providing accurate evidence, reporting and performance analysis.
• Using commercial intelligence to monitor strategic priorities, including social value, ESG, supplier performance and value for money.
• Leading and developing team members while promoting a culture of continuous improvement, innovation and data-driven decision making.
  
  We're looking for someone who combines strong analytical capability with excellent stakeholder management skills. You'll bring:
• Experience designing and delivering performance reporting frameworks, management information and business intelligence solutions.
• Advanced data analysis skills, including extracting, manipulating and interpreting large datasets using Excel and reporting or visualisation tools.
• Experience working within regulated or governance-led environments, ensuring reporting is accurate, compliant and evidence based.
• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to translate procurement objectives into meaningful performance measures.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, presenting complex information clearly to senior leaders and a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience improving data quality, developing reporting processes and embedding robust governance across performance information.
• Proven experience leading or developing colleagues, with a commitment to continuous professional development and high performance.
  
  Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city., The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence.
There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
• A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
• An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
• A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
• A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
• A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council's role as providing strategic leadership - that's being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making. We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.

At Birmingham City Council, you'll help build the intelligence and reporting capability that supports one of the UK's largest and most ambitious Commercial and Procurement Services. In return, we offer:
• The opportunity to shape strategic reporting and influence key commercial decisions across a complex organisation.
• A collaborative and forward-thinking team committed to innovation, insight and continuous improvement.
• Opportunities to develop your expertise in business intelligence, commercial analytics and performance management.
• Flexible and hybrid working opportunities where service needs allow.
• A competitive Local Government Pension Scheme and generous annual leave entitlement.
• Access to a wide range of employee wellbeing initiatives and staff benefits.
• A rewarding career where your work will strengthen governance, improve decision-making and help deliver better value and better services for Birmingham's residents.
Please upload your up-to-date CV via the attachments part of your application, this is required for shortlisting. Unfortunately, we cannot consider any applications without a CV attached Birmingham City Council is an accredited Disability Confident Leader employer, and we are committed to employing, retaining and developing all of our people. We want to ensure your recruitment journey with us is a positive and equitable one, so please let us know if there are any reasonable adjustments, additional support, accessibility needs, or if there is any way in which we can support you through your application., In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.