Retail Insights Analyst

Working closely with Merchandise, Planning, Marketing, Operations and Finance, you'll play a big part in developing how we understand and improve retail performance - analyse sales, customer and store performance data to uncover trends, understand performance drivers and provide actionable recommendations. You’ll work beyond a specific category or portfolio, but across our whole merchandise space. You enjoy exploring data, finding patterns, testing assumptions and connecting different pieces of information until the commercial story becomes clear.This is not reporting for reporting sake. You’ll have freedom to explore data, challenge assumptions and develop insights to be used across the business.You'll explore questions like:What's driving changes in sales performance?How do traffic, conversion and basket size influence results?What can we learn from key trading events and promotional activity?Where are the biggest opportunities across stores, regions and categories?As a newly created role, you'll also help shape how we measure retail performance by developing reporting frameworks, benchmarking approaches and insight tools that support better decision-making.Key ResponsibilitiesAnalyse sales, customer and store performance to identify trends, risks and opportunitiesDevelop insights into retail drivers including traffic, conversion, basket value and purchasing behaviourEvaluate promotions, seasonal activity and key trading events to inform future planningBuild reporting, benchmarking and performance measurement tools that support actionPartner across the business to translate complex analysis into clear commercial recommendations