Commercial Data Analyst/Scientist

Your new company You'll be joining a global enterprise that operates across publishing, entertainment, experiential marketing, and strategic brand collaborations. Its commercial model includes intellectual property licencing, creative consultancy, and bespoke campaigns designed to captivate audiences and elevate brand presence.Your new role This permanent role focusses on translating data into actionable business strategies, working closely with both technical and commercial teams. You will collate and analyse data and make recommendations across the business to enable strong business impact. You will be a key player in the global business planning process. Your responsibilities will include (but not be limited to):

• Champion smarter decisions by building seamless data systems that turn numbers into clear business stories.
• Decode trends across products, pricing, and markets to fuel strategic conversations.
• Keep the pulse of the business alive with evolving dashboards and insights that matter.
• Collaborate across teams to reshape how data flows and informs action.
• Explore predictive models and machine learning to unlock what's next.
• Deliver sharp insights that help teams make smarter, customer-first decisions.
• Harness a powerful tech stack - from Salesforce Media Cloud to NetSuite and beyond - to decode data and drive clarity.
• Elevate reporting with stakeholders, turning complexity into crisp, actionable views.
• Spot gaps, surface opportunities, and help business units stay ahead of the curve.
• Dive into forecasting, financial modelling, and storytelling through data.
• Collaborate globally, connecting dots across departments to fuel long-term strategy.
• Lead the shift to a new BI system (Domo), transforming how insights are shared and understood.
• Build intuitive dashboards and empower teams with training that makes data accessible.
• Keep reporting fresh, relevant, and ready for what's next.

What you'll need to succeed

• Commercial experience with the ability to translate technical solutions into commercial actions
• Understanding of data structures and relational data, with a core understanding of how data is stored and structured, and how this can be analysed and manipulated
• Experience of creating reporting structures from scratch in a BI tool, i.e. PowerBi, Tableau, Domo etc.
• Experience working in a cross-functional capacity, partnering with key business stakeholders (commercial business partners and business leaders), translating data in a way they can understand, with actionable insights. Providing ongoing support for their requirements.
• Experience working in the Retail/Ecommerce sector is advantageous (not essential)
• You'll be a curious self-starter who is excited at the prospect of undertaking a 'greenfield' job opportunity
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to communicate your role to analytical business partners
• Ability to make practical connections from data to business results
• Financial/data modelling experience
• Confident working with data using SQL - building queries that unlock insights.
• Skilled in using Python to explore, shape, and make sense of complex datasets.
• You will bring financial expertise shaped by global experience in fast-paced sectors like tech, retail, digital, or FMCG.
• A financial analysis background combined with a finance-related degree or part qualification (i.e. actively studying ACCA/CIMA).

What you'll get in return

• Flexible working options are available with a hybrid working pattern of 1 day in the office and 4 from home each week following successful completion of training and/or probationary period.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to roll over unused days, plus bank holidays. Additionally, the company shuts down on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve.
• BUPA healthcare
• Pension (employee 3%, employer 5%)
• Life assurance scheme 4x salary
• Travel insurance
• Eye tests / contribution to cost of glasses required for computer use
• Subsidised gym membership
• Learning & development opportunities (please note that this does not include study support)
• Two volunteering days per year
• Employee assistance programme
• Company/team socials and events

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