Insight Analyst

Job Title

Insight Analyst

Location

Asda House

Employment Type

Full time

Contract Type

Permanent

Hours Per Week

37.5

Salary

Competitive salary plus benefits.

Category

Agile

Closing Date

7 February 2025

 

Job Purpose

To support the development and delivery of insight and analysis for key business stakeholders relating to the market, driving decision making. You will contribute to this through a data led approach evaluating key findings and trends within projects that are aligned to the corporate strategy.

Key Accountabilities

• Contribute to insight, modelling & analytics across the function and wider business providing a data led approach to decision making and strategic priorities
• Support business stakeholders through robust and timely insight utilising latest market data and performance trends
• Analyse and solve ad-hoc business questions to help purpose and set decision making
• Bring market recommendations to life, through a range of interactive dashboards, reporting tools and insight papers
• Utilise latest data, insight and analysis tools to continually evolve our learnings and recommendations
• Deliver set projects from start to completion driving timelines and deliverables whilst reporting on build process Collaborate with a team of analysts supporting on key insight projects and development opportunities Maintain existing stakeholder relationships by delivering with integrity and robust findings

How you will do it

Knowledge:

• Comfortable querying and obtaining large datasets (through SQL, Azure or equivalent).
• Capable of manipulating and transforming these datasets to ingest into a model (e.g. through Alteryx, SQL or equivalent).

• Support delivery of key actionable insight
• Understanding of large data sets and manipulation of through various techniques
• General knowledge or background in analytical/data science modelling techniques
• Desirable – knowledge of the retail landscape and competitive market
• Data visualisation – PowerBi or equivalent

Communicating and influencing:

• Support the team through clear communication of outputs and maintain clear timelines on insight deliver
• Capable of working with non-technical end users to interrogate a business process or current tool to understand requirements and opportunities
• Maintain stakeholder engagement, create and scope clear project deliverables as well as setting timelines through continuous communication
• Engage with a range stakeholders to update on key trends and analysis of key insight projects
• Comfortable challenging existing ways of working and working directly with peers to ensure ways of working leverage existing and new data

Freedom to Think and Act:

• This team will have significant freedom to act. It requires the ability problem solve, supporting the identification of opportunities and prioritisation of insight
• Given the exploratory nature of this role requires an individual who is comfortable turning ambiguity into direction and decisions
• Whilst overall business strategy is set at an exec level this team will have autonomy within this framework to deliver as appropriate
• This role requires the ability to support on range of solutions to a problem both internally within our function and external to insight & analytics to maximise value

Skillsets required

Skills:

• Extracting, manipulating and interrogating large datasets to solve business problems
• Using data to answer specific business problems identifying key insights for decision making
• Ability to influence with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• A comprehensive knowledge of SQL or equivalent systems
• Communicating complicated issues in an accessible manner to drive action
• Experience with Alteryx or equivalent analytic tools
• Data visualisation experience (PowerBI or equivalent)

Experience:

• Working cross functionally within key projects alongside other analysts
• Experience working with a insight/data function within a large organisation, including involvement a project delivery level
• Degree level qualification in a data, geography or modelling background or equivalent qualification or experience
• Experience with analytical modelling with a range of data
• Microsoft technology stack (Azure, databricks)

Work Where it Works

Our hybrid way of working gives you the choice to work where it works.  This enables you to chose where you’ll be the most effective.  It offers a mix of working from home and in an office environment that works best for you and your team. 
You will also get an excellent benefits package including;-

•    Discretionary company bonus
•    Company pension up to 7% matched
•    10% colleague discount, free parking and many additional rewards.
 
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves