Data Analyst

• Category: Analytics & Insight
• Type: Permanent
• Salary: £40,000 to £55,000 plus bonus, pension, healthcare, etc.
• Job Reference: 1854
• Consultant: colin.doree@bluepelican.com

Position: Data Insight Analyst
Location: Hybrid, West London offices twice a week on average
Salary: £40,000 to £55,000 plus bonus, pension, healthcare, etc.

Tools knowledge required: SQL, Power BI & some knowledge of Python

“The emphasis is on business partnering and driving actionable insights.”

Sounds easy, right?

There’s quite a journey of opportunities ahead of you with this. Becoming part of a newly established data insight function, building a completely new data asset for an organisation that’s over 100 years old.

To date the company’s worked with its assets in silo. In an on-premise set up which had each line of business with their own arrangement in place. Covering everything from sales and marketing, finance and operations, supply chain and everything else. Supporting with business intelligence and reporting as well as customer insight research.

This new function is designed to bring this all together in a new data lake built using Cloud technologies.

For the last year they’ve been defining what’s needed to make things happen and have got the wheels in motion wrangling the data assets, getting it right from an engineering perspective.

It’s now time to get to work with analysing this data and giving it meaning. Identifying the value opportunities, understanding the various challenges the business might be looking to tackle, translating these into data briefs and delivering upon them.

That’s where you come in and where impact will be felt.

You’ll be engaging with different teams across the business, marketing, commercial, operations, etc. Understanding their pain points and where data and insight can help unlock potential or resolve it.

Translating these challenges into data briefs. Sourcing the data you’ll need to analyse and decide the best approach to take to achieve the end goal.

Outputs could range from reporting in Excel, or building a complex visualisation on PowerBI. Through to application of advanced analytics techniques exploring application of predictive modelling techniques for supply chain optimisation, for example.

But it’s important to note, because this team is forming, there’s a decent amount of foundation building going on to achieve the data transformation the business is looking to achieve.

So your role will be broad scope and currently relatively greenfield.

Things will evolve and develop over time as the analytics team grows, and demands for insight steps up from the business. Advancing into application of advanced analytics and modelling techniques, and introducing and experimenting with ML techniques too.

So you’ll see the scope and opportunity for you to have an impact evolve over time, and as the business becomes more and more data centric.

Your report line will be to the head of data, and there’s scope for growth as the team continues to build too. With a roadmap to increase headcount by potential 2-300% over the next 12 months as this insight function gains pace and the demand for insight continues to grow within the business.

KEY EXPERIENCE

Outside of the tools knowledge denoted at the top of this advert

• Commercially sound data analyst, you don’t just deliver work in a production line. You like to engage with a business. Understand their challenges and really get under the skin of those issues to be help solve them through the work you do
• Highly numerate backed by academics
• Have some commercial experience under your belt, you know everywhere isn’t a perfect and clean data environment, so can cut through messy data effectively
• Able to take analytical projects and translate them into proof of concepts to help prove the value of data and insight within a business
• Able to demonstrate what change your use and application of data insights have had on a business
• Intermediate PowerBI report creation skills for visualisations and dashboard development
• Solid SQL skills, able to use it to manipulate data – e.g. splits, joins, etc.
• Enjoy collaborative working and thrive in balanced, people centric environments

Visas

Unfortunately this company isn’t in a position to provide sponsorship. So individuals have to be able to live and work in the UK without restrictions or time limited visas which don’t result in the ability to apply for indefinite leave to remain. Sorry.

Want to Apply? Here’s how:

You can share your Linkedin profile or email me a CV – it doesn’t have to be up to date, we can work on that once you decide you want to take this forward.

Or, for a chat and more information please contact me on:

Colin Doree
Head of Recruitment – Digital and Marketing
Blue Pelican
01892 507122
colin@bluepelican.com

To learn more about this role, please apply or contact Colin directly on colin.doree@bluepelican.com

If this position is of interest please send us your CV here, or you can call Colin Doree direct on to discuss this and other vacancies that may suit.

Colin Doree