Job Description
The People MI, Data & Insights team provides workforce intelligence that helps Aberdeen make better business and people decisions. Working across People & Communications, Finance, Risk and Technology, the team combines data, commercial understanding and analytical expertise to provide insight that supports organisational performance, capability and growth. The team promotes innovation, continuous improvement and evidence-based decision-making, helping enable our clients to be better investors.
About the Role
The People MI, Data & Insights Consultant transforms workforce data into commercially relevant insight that supports business performance and strategic decision-making across Aberdeen. Working at Consultant level within the UK, you will identify workforce trends, risks and opportunities, translating complex information into clear recommendations for leaders. This role goes beyond reporting, focusing on understanding why outcomes occur, identifying what may happen next and recommending actions that add value. You will play a key role in developing automation, self-service reporting, dashboards and AI-enabled insight while building strong partnerships across the business. With a blended working approach, this is an excellent opportunity to influence people strategy and invest in your tomorrow.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop workforce insight that connects people trends with business priorities, performance, risk and value.
- Build and enhance reporting, dashboards and analytical products that support evidence-based decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to automate reporting processes and increase capacity for higher-value insight activities.
- Analyse workforce data to identify trends, leading indicators, risks and opportunities across the employee lifecycle.
- Partner with stakeholders to define business questions, challenge assumptions and recommend suitable actions.
- Drive continuous improvement in data quality, governance, analytical capability and AI-enabled insight generation.
About the Candidate
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to turn complex data into meaningful business insight.
- Commercial awareness and the ability to connect workforce information with organisational performance, cost, risk and value.
- Experience producing management information, dashboards or analytical products in a business environment.
- Excellent data visualisation, storytelling and stakeholder management skills.
- Good understanding of data quality, controls, definitions and governance.
- Experience working with workforce, organisational or financial data and communicating findings clearly.
- Demonstrable experience of Workday and a strong interest in people analytics, workforce intelligence and AI.
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Our benefits
There's more to working life than coming home with a good salary. We have an environment where you can learn, get involved and be supported.
When you join us, your reward will be one of the best around. This includes 40 days’ annual leave, a 16% employer pension contribution, a discretionary performance-based bonus (where applicable), private healthcare and a range of flexible benefits – including gym discounts, season ticket loans and access to an employee discount portal. You can read more about our benefits here.
Our business
Enabling our clients to be better investors drives everything we do. Our business is structured around three distinct areas – our vectors of growth – focused on our clients’ changing needs. You can find out more about what we do here.
An inclusive way of working
Whatever way you like to work, if you have the talent and commitment to join our team, we’d like to hear from you.
At Aberdeen we’ve adopted a ‘blended working’ approach. This approach combines the benefits of face-to-face collaboration, coaching and connecting in our offices with the flexibility of working from home. It enables colleagues to find a balance that works for their roles, their teams, our clients and our business.
An inclusive culture, where diverse perspectives drive our actions, is at the core of who we are and what we do. If you need assistance with your application, or a reasonable adjustment to your interview arrangements – for example, because you are neurodivergent, or have a physical, sensory, cognitive, mental, visible or invisible disability – please let us know and we’ll be happy to help.
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