Data Analyst (Senior)

Company Description

About COS: Since our launch in 2007 we have opened stores and sell online in over 40 countries worldwide. Our collection offers elevated essentials, iconic pieces and innovative design. The creative soul of the brand is visualised through our storytelling, seasonal runway shows and connect with contemporary culture to create an experience beyond the expected. From the beginning, our design ethos has always put lasting style, quality and sustainability first. Today 92% of the materials in our collection are more sustainably sourced.

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Job Description

If you are passionate about data and eager to tackle some of the most existing data analytics use cases in the fashion retail industry, COS is the place for you!  

We are seeking a Data Analyst (senior level) to join COS Data & Analytics team. In this role you will play a crucial part in driving data-driven decision-making across various business functions within COS from customer, sales, commercial, merchandising, product, supply chain, sustainability, finance and beyond. You will be responsible for identifying strategic challenges, conducting in-depth analysis and collaborating with stakeholders to turn data into actionable insights that support business objectives.      

 Key responsibilities:    

• Able to identify strategic challenges where decision support anchored in data is needed. 
• Be the driver for data driven decision making in your product team by turning data into insights and provide the team with clear, data driven recommendations.  
• Apply advanced analytics methods and tools to model, execute and follow up initiatives from idea to industrialisation.   
• Be responsible for the full analysis process from problem and scope definition to data extraction, cleaning, analysis, visualization, creating recommendations, and presenting results.  
• Turn business challenges into structured data analyse. Define and setup measurable KPIs and OKRs, own and maintain their visualization for value reporting.   
• Be the data analytics expert in cross-functional teams and collaborate with business stakeholders to solve business challenges using data analytics.  
• Work on a broad variety of business challenges with a wide range of business stakeholders (customer, sales, marketing, merchandizing, finance etc.).  
• Participate in wider analytics community, both within COS and H&M Group 
• This position will be responsible for managing sales and commercial data or web analytics data.

Qualifications

We believe you are a business-minded, ambitious team player, analytical, curious, and very supportive. We also believe you are structured, thorough with good communication and interpersonal skills. You are highly solution-oriented, quickly adapting to changes in scope and time plan. To be successful in this role we believe that you have: 

• Proven several years of experience as either as Data Analyst (Senior level) , Product/Business Analyst or similar  
• Strong business sense and business interest with the ability of making sound interpretations of data and other information.  
• Excellent communication skills and are skilled in translating and explaining complex data analysis to non-technical and/or senior stakeholders. 
• Hands-on working experience writing advanced SQL queries to extract, prep, validate, and analyze large data sets. 
• Hands on experience in Analytical tools such as powerBI or Looker studio etc. 
• Have hands on experience building data analytics solutions using programming languages such Python, or R  
• Previous working experience or comfortable working with one of cloud platform data analytics stack i.e. Azure (Azure - SQL Server) or GCP – big query  
• Have skills in Microsoft excel functions such as: power pivot, power query. Tabular Editor, DAX etc. 
• Are prestige less and enjoy collaborating with others to solve problems.  
• Possess a strong understanding of web technologies and proficiency in Google Analytics

Additional Information

This is a full time permanent contract based at our Head Office in London

Benefits

We offer all our employees attractive benefits with extensive development opportunities around the globe. All our employees receive a 25% staff discount usable on all our H&M Group brands in stores and online. In addition to our staff discount, all our employees are included in our H&M Incentive Program – HIP. You can read more about our H&M Incentive Program here.

In addition to this UK based colleagues also receive

• Up to 25 days holiday
• Annual health checks
• Pension scheme
• Discounts on various activities and financial/lifestyle products via our benefits hub
• Cycle to work scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Employee assistance via retail trust  
• Private health & dental care

Inclusion & Diversity

At COS we’re determined to create and maintain inclusive, diverse and equitable workplaces throughout our organisation. Our teams should consist of a variety of people that share and combine their knowledge, experience and ideas. Having a diverse workforce leads to a positive impact on how we address challenges, on what we perceive possible and on how we choose to relate to our colleagues and customers all over the world. Hence all diversity dimensions are taken into consideration in our recruitment process.