🛠️ Data and Business Intelligence @ Bloom & Wild Group
Data is at the heart of what we do at Bloom & Wild Group, and we are looking for a Lead Insight Analyst to join the Commercial, Range & Merchandising area of our BI & Analytics team. You’ll work closely with our Trading teams to drive insights supporting the commercial direction of Bloom & Wild Group and collaborating with stakeholders to drive our overarching strategy. This is a hands-on role for someone who’s excited by the idea of working for a fast growth, data-driven business, who’s got some exciting challenges to solve!
⚙️ What you’ll be doing:
Reporting into the Head of BI & Analytics, you’ll work alongside other analysts working across Commercial, Range and Merchandising to ensure that Bloom & Wild Group has the right insights and tools to make quick business decisions
This role gives you a great chance to be exposed to many critical parts of our business and you will be required to build strong relationships across all areas. This role is suitable for someone who has deep commercial and strategic experience.
Think deeply, act swiftly: You will identify and articulate the most suitable analytical solutions to business challenges and work with stakeholders to embed analytical thinkingYou will deliver both analytical and reporting-based projects across the Commercial, Trading, Subscriptions, Merchandising & Range areas of the business
Working with the rest of the BI team and stakeholders, you will develop, evaluate and iterate on hypotheses and drive forward best in class commercial testing within a highly experiment-driven culture
Bloom & Wild Group is a very data-driven company and this role will be responsible for ensuring insight-led recommendations are actioned within both the short and long-term strategy for the business
You will have strong communication skills and must be able to articulate insights to both technical and non-technical colleagues
You will work with other analysts in the Commercial & Range remit to shape the analytical roadmap and drive improvements in project and team processes to enable us to scale and automate tasks where possible
You will be actively using, creating and maintaining Tableau dashboard, writing and implementing SQL queries and utilising DBT for model improvement and development on a daily basis.
✅ You’ll love this role if you…
Expert in advanced analytical methodologies, commercial strategy & a proven track record (with examples) of driving business impact through actionable insights and recommendations
You will have experience in driving commercial impact through data driven recommendations across different commercial levers such as pricing, discounting, merchandising and range optimisation
You will understand the drivers of commercial trading performance, be able to forecast future demand and identify key levers to accelerate performance investigating drivers behind different trading environments and knowledge of demand forecasting is a plus
Experience designing and implementing commercial/merchandising AB testing programmes that drive improvements in commercial performance whilst generating insights
You have experience effectively facilitating cross-functional projects, anticipating project blockers & making decisions to proactively avoid or resolve them
Must be able to scope, shape and prioritise project briefs, challenging stakeholders where necessary to ensure we are focusing on areas that will achieve the greatest impact and deliver profitable growth
Excellent communication skills with the ability to distill technical information to all levels across the organisation, focusing on actions and impact
Bloom & Wild Group is fast-paced, so you must be able to proactively identify quick wins and make trade-offs while maintaining analytical best practice
5+ years experience of hands-on SQL (Mandatory)
Hands on experience designing, building and maintaining dashboards in visualisation tools such as Tableau, Looker or Periscope.
Nice to haves
E-commerce experience is a big plus, particularly in commercial areas e.g. pricing analytics, financial modelling, demand forecasting and trading
Working knowledge and experience in customer retention and web analytics
Experience utilising python/R in advanced analytics
Experience with automating code in DBT and ELT processes.
These are some of the skills and experience we think will enable success in this role, but please don’t worry if you are missing some of these. We’re committed to building a team made up of different strengths, skills and experiences, so if you’re excited about our values, passionate about what you do and would like to join us in doing things more thoughtfully, we’d love to hear from you.