Analyst - Data and Analytics

Reference: REQ004089

Seasalt is a modern Cornish company with an ambitious vision. As a successful omnichannel retailer spanning our website, over 70 shops and 400 wholesale stockists, we're always challenging ourselves to think creatively, innovate and improve.

Working in collaboration with the business you will build management reporting and dashboards, design data models and use data and analytics to improve performance and manage risk. You will embrace data-led decision making, creating insights that help Seasalt make informed business decisions.

This role is offered as a full-time opportunity and is based remotely within the UK, with occasional travel to our Cornwall head offices, as needed.

You'll help us by:

• Applying basic tools and techniques to analyse data and synthesise findings.
• Translating and communicating accurate information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define data, reporting, alerting and dashboard requirements, understanding and capturing key business drivers.
• Identifying, collecting and migrating data to and from a range of systems whilst being aware of good practice data governance and data management principles.
• Producing data models including Power BI Semantic models, Tabular or other models as required, and ensuring these are scalable and secure.
• Visualising data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users.
• Ensuring dashboards, reports and alerts drive action through clear signposting for trends, exceptions or forecasted outcomes and are easy to use/interpret.
• Designing, automating, launching, maintaining and enhancing dashboards, reports, KPIs and alerts using Power BI, Pyramid, Excel or other tools.
• Assisting departments in streamlining and automating their data-led processes.
• Providing training and support on Power BI and reports to encourage successful adoption and empower the business to create their own reports and visualisations.
• Improving processes and automate processes where possible, by innovating and experimenting with data.
• Adopting appropriate project management and agile techniques to ensure timely delivery.

The skills you'll be sharing with the team:

• Recognised qualification or equivalent experience in; BA or BS degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Engineering, or any similar discipline with a clear analytical bias

• Hands on experience in manipulating and analysing large and complex data to solve business problems.
• Competent at developing optimised and easy to navigate dashboards and reports using BI technologies such as PowerBI, Tableau, Looker or other data visualisation platforms.
• Knowledge of creating Tabular Models and using DAX in either SSAS, Power BI or Power Pivot.
• Knowledge of SQL and navigating SQL databases.
• Awareness of agile techniques and processes.
• Strong communicator with cross-functional teams and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience in managing and prioritising stakeholder's requests and translating them into robust data solutions.
• Knowledge of data governance best practices.

• Experience of R and/or Python would be beneficial.
• Experience of retail environment would be beneficial.

Why we hope you'll love working with us:

The success of Seasalt is down to the skill and hard work of our team. We don't just want to attract the best and brightest people to come and work with us, we want you to stay and grow with us. From the moment your Seasalt journey begins, it's our pledge to support you by providing dedicated learning and development opportunities that will enhance your day-to-day working life and help you build your skills and knowledge.

As well as doing everything we can to boost your development professionally, we believe encouraging personal growth is just as important. So you can fulfil your passion and purpose, not just at work but in life, we offer a range of benefits that are designed to enhance your career and wellbeing:

• Salary: up to £27,500 depending on experience (Band 2)
• 34 days paid annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing with length of service
• Attractive 50% employee discount
• Flexible benefits allowance to personalise your benefits package
• Private Medical Scheme including 24/7 virtual GP
• Free access to our Employee Assistance Programme through Retail Trust with 24/7 support
• Pension plan with generous 7% employer contributions
• Life assurance programme
• Enhanced family leave policies
• Flexible working opportunities with our 'blended' working approach
• Learning and Development opportunities including specialist training, coaching opportunities, and professional qualification support
• Paid volunteering opportunities
• Employee networks to develop and provide support to our people, including the Inclusion Network and Culture Crew
• 100s of savings on top retailers and gym memberships through our discount hub

At Seasalt we have a brilliant team of people - they're what make Seasalt a fantastic place to work. We love to celebrate uniqueness and are committed to making Seasalt a place where everyone feels they belong. As an inclusive employer, we want to invite a diverse range of candidates to apply for our roles.

We aim to work flexibly where possible and value a range of perspectives - diversity of thought helps us to grow - so please apply if this is a role that would make you excited to come to work every day. We're happy to help with any adjustments to our recruitment process and beyond. Just drop us an email at [email protected]