Project Portfolio Data Analyst

About Us

We're a truly international company, fourth largest in our industry and operating across 120 markets. An inclusive, innovative global FMCG business supported by over 27,500 employees. As we embrace a new era of growth, we are transforming. Our ways of working and culture are driven by a challenger mindset, constantly questioning the status quo. Our agility and entrepreneurial spirit, alongside award winning development programmes, enable innovation and success while creating exciting and rewarding career choices.

As we move forward, our customers will be at the heart of what we do, evolving to needs and expectations and committing to a more meaningful contribution to harm reduction by building a successful NGP business. Integral to our long-term success is our sustainability strategy, behaving responsibly and supporting our ambitions, all underpinned by high governance.

Encouraging inclusion at local levels and supporting a developing and robust diversity agenda globally, we’re fully committed to creating and maintaining an environment that celebrates and respects difference.

The Role

We are recruiting a Project Portfolio Data Analyst to work within our Process and Governance pillar of Imperial’s central Innovation function.

Reporting to the Head of Innovation Process & Operations, this role will be cross-category and have a global remit.

Please note: This role can be based in Bristol or Liverpool with a 50 / 50 hybrid working model

Key Accountabilities

• Providing support in maintaining Ideation to Launch process standards and best practice

• Ensuring compliance and reporting performance of all projects and programmes within the critical commercial end-to-end process - Ideation to Launch.

• Provide support to the Head of Innovation Process & Operations in forum administration, including agenda creation and decision reports

• Improve process with regards to data management

• Consolidate data from a variety of formats into a cross-category project database and provide succinct regular reporting

• Develop and manage the cross-category project database and resource tool, tracking key project KPIs and provide real-time queries i.e. business cases achieving a specific KPI within the last 2 years in EVP category or forecasting resource utilisation for a specific department for the next 6 months based on current projects in the pipeline

Skills And Experience

• Proven ability to understand complex sets of data and manipulation thereof
• Proven experience in working with Workflow Management software or resource utilisation software i.e. Planview suite
• Proficient skills in Microsoft Excel and Power BI
• Ability to analyse & consolidate data from a variety of sources including meeting minutes, PowerPoint, Excel etc.
• Proven understanding of waterfall and agile project management practises  
• Experience in project management

What we offer

Imperial Brands offer a competitive package of salary, bonus scheme, pension and 25 days holiday (with an additional 4 days on top to cover the Christmas period and bank holidays) and hybrid working.

Next Steps

Interested applications should apply with their CV highlighting their suitability for the role.