HR – Insight Team Leader

Job Title: HR – People Insights Lead

Location: Warton, Hybrid – Minimum 3 days per week on site

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £56,766+ (DOE)

What you’ll be doing:

• You will Support the creation of dashboards, reports and visual insights that translate highly detailed HR data into clear, actionable information, ensuring outputs meet both operational and strategic needs
• Provide high‑impact interpretative input to workforce planning, people strategy and organisational projects, shaping future business direction and supporting strategic trade‑offs
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with HR, Finance and business leaders, confidently eliciting requirements and influencing priorities across multiple groups
• Prepare and deliver high‑impact insight briefs and recommendations to senior leaders, shaping strategies through robust evidence, trend analysis and forward‑looking interpretation
• Coach and develop a team of HR data analysts, fostering technical excellence, analytical maturity and a continuous‑improvement mindset
• Identify opportunities to streamline processes and deploy automation or new tools that enhance efficiency, accuracy and scalability of HR data products

Your skills and experiences:

Essentials:

• Experience of BI toolsets (Tableau, Power BI)
• Demonstrates knowledge across strategic HR subject areas relevant to strategic workforce and people analytics
• Understands the complexities, risks and sensitivities of the business area supported and adapts insights accordingly, including the strategic and financial implications of people insights
• Experience eliciting business requirements, translating into effective analytical solutions and delivering within expected timescales and budget
• Experience in people analytics, HR reporting or related data disciplines

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Air Resource Cell Team:

The team delivers high-quality data visualisations and insight products that support strategic, evidence-based decision-making across the organisation. The team translates multi-faceted people data into clear, meaningful outputs that inform senior stakeholders and shape workforce strategy.

Working closely with Centres of Excellence, the team ensures alignment with functional priorities while continuously enhancing analytical capability. Leading a small team of three analysts, this function plays a key role in strengthening people insights, enabling informed planning, and supporting organisational performance through data-driven understanding.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 12th March 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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