Data Analyst

Lyst is a global fashion shopping platform founded in London in 2010 and catering to over 160M shoppers per year. We offer our customers the largest assortment of premium & luxury fashion products in one place, curating pieces from 27,000 of the world's leading brands and stores. We are a scale-up business, combining an agile mentality with a proven business model and over a decade of experience. This provides a balance between foundations and structure, and autonomy and pace.

At Lyst, we obsess over the customer, providing a search & discovery experience which offers inspiration, fulfilment, and personalisation. We believe that fashion is amazing but shopping for fashion often isn't, and use our technology, data and creativity to bring more joy, greater choice and fewer fails. Our mission is to help fashion shoppers make better decisions and help fashion partners find better audiences as the category-leading destination for every fashion shopper.

The Role 

We are looking for an Analyst to join our Analytics Chapter, comprised of Analysts and Analytics Engineers. In the role, you’ll work closely with our Commercial, Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams. The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills, commercial awareness, and an authentic enthusiasm for fashion. You should be detail-focused and naturally curious, yet able to see the bigger picture and link your work to broader company goals. This role is integral to advancing our mission to become the world’s most intelligent fashion platform. 

Responsibilities:

• Produce reports on the performance of joint commercial partnerships between Lyst and our retailer partners.
• Provide impact estimates and forecasts for commercial stakeholders based on potential micro and macro market changes.
• Understand the key drivers of our retailer partners’ performances on our platform and how we can create win-win scenarios.
• Assist on our assortment strategy, content-based merchandising, and campaign planning.
• Monitor and report on key performance indicators across team initiatives and link them to wider commercial performance.
• Use your broad exposure to our data to help identify opportunities and risks, trends, and recommendations. 
• Support our Senior Analysts in conducting analyses into trends driving business performance.
• Work across our Editorial, Brand, and Partnerships teams to support strategic initiatives, continuous reporting, and data-driven decision-making.
• Help these teams make data-driven decisions and empower them with self-serve data where appropriate.
• Collaborate with data peers (other Analysts, Analytics Engineering, etc.) in order to champion our data and enable data consumption across the organisation.

Requirements

• Technically confident with 1+ years of experience writing SQL in a live environment. 
• 1+ years of experience working on a productionised dashboarding tool. Looker is preferred, but not essential.
• Strong numerical ability and understanding of e-commerce metrics.
• Ability to derive insights, identify trends, and assess commercial & strategic opportunities/risks from large data sets.
• A knowledge of the fashion industry is a must: genuine interest in fashion trends, brands, and the wider retail environment.
• High standard of written and verbal communication. Ability to articulate complex data problems to non-technical audiences.
• A knowledge of statistics is preferred, but not essential.
• Behavioural qualities: strong commitment to team success and Lyst’s values.

Benefits

• Our Ways of Working: We all come into the office on Tuesdays and Thursdays, with the option to work remotely or come into the office on the other days. We believe that in person collaboration and community spirit is super important, which is why we spend some of our time in the office and some of our time at home.
• Time Off: In addition to the 8 statutory bank holidays, you will receive 29 holidays per year. Lyst’s holiday year runs from 1 April to 31 March.
• Competitive Family Leave Package: This includes Enhanced Family Leave for those eligible, paid Time off for Dependents and Support for Fertility Treatment & Loss.
• Clothing Benefit: We want you to enjoy using the Lyst app and site as much as our customers, so we provide you with a clothing allowance to use on Lyst every year. This starts at £250 when you join and increases up to £1,000 with your length of service.
• Private Healthcare: Our healthcare provider is Vitality. Your health is important to us which is why we offer all employees a comprehensive healthcare scheme from the day you start.
• Training Allowance: We’re big on continuous learning and growth, so all employees are currently entitled to an annual training allowance of £1,000. This can be used to attend conferences, industry events, training courses and to purchase resources.
• Pension Scheme: Our pension provider is The People’s Pension. We offer a minimum employee contribution of 5% and 3% employer contribution.
• Eye Tests and Vouchers: Employees can make a saving on their eye test and glasses through our chosen provider. You’ll receive a free eye test every year and a discount towards glasses.
• Cycle-to-Work Scheme: Lyst will purchase a bicycle from your chosen retailer, you will then receive a voucher to pick up your bicycle from them.
• Transport Season Ticket Loan: Employees can apply for an interest free season ticket loan to support your travel to work.
• Social Events: Frequent company wide social events including Christmas & summer parties, sports days, themed drinks, quizzes, cook alongs, as well as smaller team socials. We also have plenty of interest based groups such as football, running club, book club, culinary and more.

We want to build a world where fashion works for everyone, and we want teams that are just as inclusive. Diversity and inclusion is an integral part of our culture at Lyst. We recognise and celebrate the value and impact diversity brings to our company and are committed to ensuring this is a consistent focus, for which we are held to account. We are committed to treating all applicants fairly and equally, and encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply for this role. We are happy to talk about flexible working arrangements.

Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Lyst we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.