Data Analyst

Knowsley, Merseyside
Matalan

As an Analyst, you will play an important role in turning data into clear, actionable insight that supports effective decision-making across the business. Working with a range of stakeholders, you will analyse performance, identify trends and opportunities, and help shape recommendations that improve outcomes, efficiency and strategic focus.

This is a hands on analytical role suited to someone who combines strong technical capability with commercial awareness and sound judgement. You will be expected to work with a degree of autonomy, manage priorities effectively, and contribute to the continuous improvement of reporting, analytical approaches and decision support across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities Analysis & Insight

• Performance Analysis: Analyse data, trends and key business metrics to identify opportunities, risks and areas for improvement.
• Evaluation: Support the assessment of initiatives, processes and business changes by measuring outcomes, identifying impact and drawing clear conclusions.
• Insight Generation: Translate complex or ambiguous data into meaningful insight and practical recommendations for stakeholders.

Operational Excellence & Reporting

• Data Analysis: Work with data from multiple sources to build a clear understanding of performance, trends and underlying drivers.
• Reporting & Visualisation: Develop, maintain and enhance reports, dashboards and analytical outputs that provide timely, accurate and accessible insight.
• Data Quality & Governance: Support high standards of data accuracy, consistency and analytical rigour across reporting and insight generation.

Stakeholder Collaboration & Communication

• Stakeholder Communication: Present findings clearly and confidently, tailoring messages to different audiences and levels of seniority.
• Business Partnering: Build effective working relationships across the business to understand priorities, respond to analytical needs and support evidence based decision making.
• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes and analytical ways of working, and contribute to their implementation.

Qualifications

• Experience: Proven experience in an Analyst or Data Analyst role, with a track record of delivering high quality analysis in a fast paced environment.
• Technical Skills: Strong analytical and problem solving capability, with experience using tools such as Excel, SQL, Power BI or similar reporting and data analysis platforms.
• Analytical Thinking: Able to interpret complex information, identify patterns and translate findings into clear, commercially relevant insight.
• Communication: Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain analytical findings clearly and influence decision making.
• Organisation & Ownership: Able to manage competing priorities, work independently and take ownership of delivering high quality outputs to deadline.
• Continuous Improvement: Demonstrates curiosity and initiative in improving analytical methods, processes and tools, while staying open to new technologies and ways of working.

Why Join Us?

Even if you don’t tick every single box on this list, please apply anyway! We value a true “development mindset” above perfection. If you are commercially curious, love turning numbers into real world, actionable insight, and want to build a world class team while growing your own career, we want to hear from you. This role offers an exceptional opportunity to directly shape our strategic direction, making it an invaluable and highly rewarding step in your professional journey.

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We know as a team, we are stronger together – we champion equality for all and make lasting connections that go beyond work. We thrive off our inclusive culture, encouraging our colleagues to bring their true selves to work and contributing to collective creativity, open mindedness and growth.

Benefits

• 20% staff discount, which increases with length of service
• Thrive Recognition Scheme
• Wellbeing support provided by the Retail Trust
• Life Assurance
• Retail Rewards platform offering discounts for other retailers
• Pension Scheme
• Access to a wide range of career development
• Additional benefits may apply depending on your role and area of the business