Senior Data Analyst

N Brown – who we are and why work for us?

At N Brown, we’re committed to building a diverse workforce and creating an inclusive environment that values equality for all. Our vision is that by ‘championing inclusion, we’ll become the most loved and trusted fashion retailer’. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion are, therefore, at the heart of our culture.

We’re a forward-thinking digital retailer with a financial services proposition to be proud of. We’re customer-obsessed, serving them through three core brands: JD Williams, Simply Be, and Jacamo. We’re experienced, with over 160 years of trading under our belt. We’re inclusive, as we believe in fashion without boundaries; and we’re sustainable, striving to make as little impact on the planet as possible.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our Group Data team! Data at N Brown is one of the 5 strategic pillars, with a mission to establish data as an asset to win. The Group Data function, led by the Director of Data has been established to define and implement the enterprise data vision and strategy. We are already a strongly data led business with a purpose to help our customers look and feel amazing.  The role within the Analytics Team gives you the opportunity to get close to some of our digital data to inform and direct change to the customer journey and business outcomes

What’s in it for you?

• Hybrid working
• 24 days holiday (+ 8 bank holidays) with the option to buy an additional 10 days
• Annual bonus scheme
• Company pension with up to 8% N Brown contribution
• Enhanced maternity and adoption leave
• Access to Apricity, a self-funding IVF benefit at a reduced rate
• Mental Health support both internally and externally, including access to our wellbeing champions and counselling services
• A range of financial wellbeing support
• Colleague discount across all N Brown brands
• Onsite café with subsidised rates and local restaurant discounts!
• Life Assurance and Private Medical Insurance
• Paid volunteer time – all our colleagues can take a full day paid to volunteer for a charity of their choice

What will you do as a Senior Data Analyst at N Brown

• Use your data knowledge to create exploratory data analysis to answer key business questions
• Use data visualisation skills to create engaging feedback and recommendations from your analysis to help stakeholders make data driven decisions
• Working within an agile squad to drive value change within the business, you will represent the Analytics team and have a high level of autonomy and be responsible for prioritising, task sizing and managing your own work load
• Create great working relationships with stakeholders and collaborate together to combine analytical and domain knowledge to create better decision making processes
• Help your stakeholders be more data led, through by promoting a test and learn culture and developing self serve analytics solutions
• Ensure that the analytical methods we use align with best practice both scientifically and within our subject domain
• Mentor more junior colleagues in the analytics team to help them learn best practice and also contribute to a culture of standardisation for coding and methodologies across analytics and wider group data teams

What essential experience and skills will you have?

• Proficient in SQL as this is our most used language day to day
• Capable of developing dashboards using a business intelligence tool, such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik (we use Power BI currently)
• Understanding of e-commerce, digital channels and understanding of digital attribution methods
• Understanding of Python or transferrable coding languages and willingness to learn
• Experience sourcing and joining data from multiple data sources, using a variety of database languages and data analysis tools
• Experience of working closely with stakeholders to deliver actionable insight
• Experience or willingness to mentor colleagues
• Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications, primarily Excel

Advantageous

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform; Big Query,GA4 & Firebase
• Experience working within marketing, with domain knowledge of Digital Marketing (PPC,SEO, etc), Broadcast Media, or CRM
• Experience of working within an ecommerce business
• Knowledge or experience working with or developing customer segmentation
• Knowledge or experience working with media attribution

Ways of Working

We offer hybrid working which varies across the business depending on the role you’re in. For this role, the expectation would be 1 day per week. Our Head Office is located in the Northern Quarter in Manchester City Centre.

Our working hours are 36.17 per week and our core working hours are between 10am - 4pm. Given we don’t have strict working hours you can find the working pattern that’s right for you.

Our promise to you:

We’re an equal opportunity employer and value diversity. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

What happens when you apply to a role at N Brown?

As soon as we receive your application, we’ll send you an email to let you know. We always aim to come back to you as soon as possible with an update and we really appreciate you taking the time to apply for a role with us. Good luck!