Job Description

About the job.

At National Highways, we have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Statistician to join our team in Customer, Strategy and Communications (CSC). This role will give you the opportunity to use your statistical expertise and experience to produce high-quality analysis on the performance of England’s motorways and major A roads. You will be working with traffic, road safety and customer satisfaction data and will be developing models, writing code and creating both technical reports and insightful commentaries for non-analysts. A key part of your role will be to provide statistical advice and guidance across the organisation, so you’ll need to be a great communicator with a confident working knowledge of a broad range of statistical techniques. You will have great inter-personal skills to enable you to work closely with internal and external stakeholders.

Please note this role can be based from either Birmingham, Exeter, Guildford, Bedford, or Manchester however, you will be required to travel at least once per month to Birmingham or Manchester to collaborate with the team. Ad-hoc travel to other National Highways locations and to key external stakeholder offices may be required.

• Statistical analysis into the customer satisfaction, safety and performance of England’s motorways and major A roads. Including leading the development of forecasting models for performance metrics on National Highways’ machine learning platform.
• Producing analytically assured reports and outputs that communicate insight effectively.
• Providing high-quality statistical advice and assurance across the organisation.
• Setting and implementing consistent standards and guidance for using data, applying statistical methods, and communicating analytical results.
• Developing the statistical capability of the team and the wider organisation.

About you.

• Relevant work experience in a statistical or analytical role, and evidence of formal statistical training (for example a degree in a relevant subject such as statistics, mathematics, economics, science or similar).
• Excellent communication skills and an engaging communication style, with the ability to present with impact to a range of audiences with differing levels of technical knowledge.
• A track-record of working collaboratively and maintaining strong relationships with stakeholders.
• A practical understanding of a range of statistical methods, with the ability to support others to use them appropriately. Experience of developing statistical methods for forecasting is desirable.
• Experience of designing and producing analyses to support decision making.
• Experience using Python, or another programming language for statistical data analysis. Experience of using Databricks on Azure is desirable.

About us.

Here at National Highways, we manage and improve England’s motorways and major A roads, helping our customers have safer, smoother and more reliable journeys. Our priorities are safety, customers and delivery, and at the core of this, are our values of passion, integrity, safety, teamwork and ownership.

The Customer, Strategy, and Communications directorate is essential to National Highways. We guide the direction of the strategic road network, helping the company deliver economic and social benefits by meeting the needs of our customers, clients, and fulfilling regulatory requirements. As the central hub within National Highways, we provide the corporate strategic planning function for the organisation.

External candidates will be offered a starting salary at the lower end of the pay scale, while current employees will be appointed in accordance with our established pay policy.

We are committed to creating a diverse environment and welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

Why you should join us

At National Highways we believe in a connected country. We are passionate about creating a culture where colleagues feel connected, included and enjoy greater wellbeing to achieve this. We’re proud that as an organisation we are continually striving to do better and actively encourage and support our colleagues to do the same with their careers.

So, if you put safety first, take ownership of your work, show passion for what you do, work effectively in a team, and demonstrate integrity in how you do it – then you’ll be a great fit for our organisation.

A connected and sustainable working approach has been adopted across National Highways. For some roles, this means being able to work in a hybrid way spending up to 60% of time working from a remote location such as home.

We offer many different ways to work flexibly and we’re open to discuss part-time working, job shares, and flexible start and finish times.

Please wait until the interview stage before asking us about flexibility, and we will explore what is possible.

Our benefits package

• Our total reward package includes basic salary, the potential for a performance related bonus
• Contributory pension scheme with employer contribution of up to 10%
• Annual Leave starting at 26 days (plus Bank Holidays) rising by 1 day each year up to 31 days (plus Bank Holidays)
• Flexible hours and an approach driven by connected and sustainable working which includes hybrid working
• Life assurance of 4 times annual salary
• Health and wellbeing support, including an Employee Assistance Programme, available 24/7 365 days and network of mental health first aiders. Plus access to a wellbeing app to enhance your self-care 24/7, Occupational health service and flu vaccines
• A cycle to work scheme for the purchase of a bicycle and equipment for healthy, low carbon travel
• Significant investment in your career development, through learning and development, talent management, coaching, mentoring and on job experience

And we are

• Family friendly with enhanced maternity leave and pay, paternity leave (15 days), shared parental leave, adoption leave. Plus access to financial support for holiday play schemes and paid special leave (up to 5 days pa), eg for caring responsibilities
• Money friendly with access to a discounts platform including over 3000 discounts for supermarkets, eating out, leisure, holidays. Alongside a financial wellbeing programme
• Community friendly – offering paid leave to volunteer, 3 days basic/year

If you are successful, it is key to know all offers of employment are subject to satisfactory completion of our pre-employment checks which include:

• Right to work check
• 3 year employment history references
• DBS criminal record check
• Social media and adverse journalism check
• Driving licence check (if applicable)
• Fit to work questionnaire (for all), followed by a medical check (if applicable)
• Qualifications and/or professional membership check (if applicable)

And finally

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