About the Role
Establish and maintain a trusted source of customer insight across the Affordable Housing business, ensuring high-quality data, governance, and analysis to enable evidence-led decision making, improve customer outcomes, strengthen regulatory compliance, and drive service performance.
Responsibilities
- Manage the customer insight and measurement function, ensuring all customer and operational insight is reliably gathered, validated, and triangulated.
- Ensure high standards of data quality, coding accuracy, and analytical integrity, establishing consistent methods for capturing, maintaining, and interpreting customer intelligence.
- Develop and maintain monthly and quarterly learning dashboards, customer insight packs, and customer outcome reports, enabling evidence-led decision making across the business.
- Interpret complex data to identify themes, hotspots, risk indicators, and emerging customer issues, producing concise, actionable insight that informs operational and strategic decisions.
- Prepare and present insight reports to senior leaders, governance forums, and customer panels, translating evidence into compelling narratives that highlight performance and risk.
- Support regulatory assurance by providing high-quality evidence for Consumer Standards, the Customer Outcomes Framework, and customer outcome targets, ensuring measurement is audit-ready.
- Collaborate with and support thematic learning and root cause analysis, supplying robust, triangulated evidence for systemic issue identification.
- Work proactively with operational managers across the business, providing expert interpretation, challenge, and guidance to support meaningful action planning.
- Promote a culture of evidence-led decision making, continuous improvement, and customer-centred learning across all levels of the organisation.
Requirements
- A degree level or equivalent, preferably with a statistical or analytical focus.
- Demonstrable experience within the Housing Sector or other service industries, with a working knowledge of key industry Regulations.
- Advanced understanding of survey methods, performance data, social housing regulation, and customer measurement.
- Understanding of regulatory requirements (Consumer Standards, Housing Ombudsman Code).
- Experience preparing reports for governance audiences and senior leaders.
- Excellent analytical skills and data interpretation ability.
- Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking capabilities.
- Must hold a full valid UK driving licence to drive on company business.
Skills
- Statistical analysis
- Analytical skills
- Data interpretation
- Problem-solving
- Critical-thinking
- Survey methods
- Performance data analysis
- Social housing regulation knowledge
- Customer measurement techniques
- Regulatory compliance understanding
Location
- Homeworking
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Degree level or equivalent
Salary/Compensations
- £51,379 - £62,412 per year
- London area - £59,291 per annum (rising to £62,412 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance)
- South East region- £53,948 per annum (rising to £56,787 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance)
- Elsewhere in the UK - £51,379 per annum (rising to £54,083 after 12 months service and subject to satisfactory performance)
Benefits
- Company car or car allowance
- 25 days annual leave (rising to a maximum of 30 days) plus public holidays
- Pension scheme with employer contributions
- Life Assurance
- Employee Advice Service including counselling
- Cycle to Work scheme
- Voluntary health plans
- Employee discounts
- Wellbeing support and tools
- Employee recognition scheme
- Staff Networks
About the Company
- We are a not-for-profit housing association, and own and manage around 125,000 homes.
- We foster a diverse and inclusive culture, and nurture and reward talent.
- Our customers are at the heart of all we do, and colleagues help make a real difference to people’s lives.
Equal Opportunity
- Inclusion is one of our core values.
- Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers’ needs with fairness and empathy.
- We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission.
- We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary’s commitment to our Disability Confident employer status.
