EAF Data & Analytics Manager

About Role
Join Queen Mary University of London, a world-class institution dedicated to providing global opportunities, as the EAF Data and Analytics Manager. Reporting to the Head of EAF Systems and Support Services, you will provide strategic leadership for data analytics and business intelligence across the Estates and Facilities Directorate. Your primary focus will be leading the data integration and validation for the university’s new IWMS, Planon, transitioning fragmented legacy silos into a unified single source of truth. You will ensure all data assets are secure, accurate, and aligned with university standards while designing a comprehensive suite of Power BI dashboards to provide the Senior Management Team with actionable, evidence-based insights. Additionally, you will oversee the quality assurance of the HESA Estates Management Return and develop sophisticated benchmarking reports to track performance against sector peers.

About You
To be successful, you must be a strategic thinker with significant expertise in business systems, complex data analytics, and data management. You should be educated to degree level in a relevant field or possess equivalent professional experience. We are looking for a candidate with proven experience in data or systems teams, specifically in shaping complex analytics using tools such as SQL or Power BI. You must be able to communicate technical information effectively to gain buy-in from a wide range of stakeholders.

Beyond technical proficiency, you will need strong leadership skills to mentor colleagues and foster a collaborative environment. Experience in establishing data governance frameworks and ensuring GDPR compliance is essential. You should be a proactive problem-solver committed to operational excellence. Most importantly, you must demonstrate a clear commitment to Queen Mary’s values of inclusion, ambition, and ethical integrity, actively promoting an environment where all staff and students can flourish.

About the Estates and Facilities (EAF) Directorate
Our Directorate is one of the largest departments within Queen Mary University of London. We are committed to supporting student wellbeing and maintaining the highest standards across the university’s estate. Our mission is to provide a safe, secure, and clean environment that supports the professional and academic needs of our students, staff, stakeholders, and guests. For further details, please visit

At Queen Mary University of London, we believe that a diversity of ideas helps us achieve the previously unthinkable.

Throughout our history, we’ve fostered social justice and improved lives through academic excellence. And we continue to live and breathe this spirit today, not because it’s simply ‘the right thing to do’ but for what it helps us achieve and the intellectual brilliance it delivers.

We continue to embrace diversity of thought and opinion in everything we do, in the belief that when views collide, disciplines interact, and perspectives intersect, truly original thought takes form.

We offer competitive salaries, access to a generous pension scheme, 30 days’ leave per annum (pro-rata for part-time/fixed-term), a season ticket loan scheme and access to a comprehensive range of personal and professional development opportunities. In addition, we offer a range of work life balance and family friendly, inclusive employment policies, campus facilities and flexible working arrangements.

Queen Mary’s commitment to our diverse and inclusive community is embedded in our appointments processes. Reasonable adjustments will be made at each stage of the recruitment process for any candidate with a disability. We are open to considering applications from candidates wishing to work flexibly.

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