Job Description

Right across infrastructure, there's a requirement to not only maintain, but also renew and reimagine. Whatever stage you're at in your career, with us you'll have an opportunity to grow and develop. Delivering essential infrastructure services for life, while being safety first, and client and customer centric in a friendly, fun and respectful environment where you are encouraged to thrive.
Where will you be working?
We help our clients safeguard the water supply, improve environmental performance and manage demand for future generations. We enhance and extend asset life, ensuring compliance with water quality and environmental standards. We're problem solvers with over 140 years of combined experience in engineering and infrastructure.
This role will be within our Demand management and network infrastructure team. We look after 60 million meters and our teams provide advanced metering solutions to help manage demand for essential suppliers.
Want to be a part of it?
What will you be doing?
The Data Reporting & Logistics Manager is responsible for overseeing the development and delivery of data-driven reporting solutions while managing logistics operations to ensure efficiency, accuracy, and alignment with business objectives.
You will design and maintain dashboards, reports and KPIs to support operational and strategic decision-making. Collaborating with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and translate them into actionable reporting solutions. Ensuring data integrity, consistency, and compliance with governance standards is critical whilst providing insights and recommendations based on data trends and performance metrics discovered.
The role requires you to manage the day-to-day meter logistics operation including inventory, transportation, and distribution management. Optimising the performance through monitoring trends and using data-driven approaches. Coordinating with suppliers, clients and internal teams to ensure timely and cost-effective delivery.
As the Continuous Improvement Manager you will lead a team of analysts and logistics coordinators, fostering a culture of continuous improvement. Acting as a key liaison between data, operations, and the Smart Metering Leadership Team.
As the Data Reporting & Logistics Manager, you will be playing a vital role in the success of our complex programme of work, ensuring in day data validation of completed activities is accurate and proactively driven to a satisfactory outcome for all. You thrive on being a key player in our team, driving efficiency and advocating for change in the Smart Metering team. This role would really suit somebody who is passionate about accurate reporting, using their experience of understanding of logistics systems and inventory management.
What you'll bring

• Proven experience in data reporting, analytics, and logistics/supply chain management.
• Strong proficiency in reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL, Excel).
• Good understanding of logistics systems, inventory management, and transportation planning.
• Excellent organisational, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience managing cross-functional teams and projects.
• People management experience

What's in it for you?
We offer a range of benefits designed to support your life in and out of work, some of which include;

• Matched or contributory pension scheme
• Online GP service, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year
• Employee assistance programme
• My Rewards portal, access to 1000's of retail discounts
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work, salary finance and give as you earn schemes
• Enhanced maternity, paternity leave and adoption leave
• Reward and recognition scheme

In addition, this role offers;

• My Car Choice our salary sacrifice EV/ Hybrid car scheme
• Private Healthcare
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Life Assurance

About us
We want to be an employer of choice and a great place to work, attracting diverse and talented people, who join us and make a difference. We're one of the Top 100 UK companies actively supporting and recruiting army veterans. Our ENABLE inclusion networks bring together people who have a shared passion, to help create an environment where everyone belongs.
Our values help to shape our culture and how we work with one another. We recruit with these values in mind, to ensure your aspirations, and ways of working, align with ours.

• We're responsible and go further for our people, clients, communities and the planet
• We're open and seek new and better ways of exceeding expectations
• We're together and as one team; the whole is greater than the sum of the parts
• We're ambitious and embrace opportunity, to lead essential infrastructure services for life

Whether you're a trainee, apprentice or graduate, or progressing through your career, our people benefit from industry recognised programmes, training and development.
It's an exceptional time to be a part of M Group.
Please note: Occasionally, job adverts might be closed before the stated closing date. Do apply as soon as possible to ensure your application is considered.
For certain roles, successful candidates will be subject to 3rd party background checks as part of the hiring process. Some roles require drug and alcohol testing as part of induction and onboarding.
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