Junior Reporting and Dashboard Author

STARK Building Materials UK is one of the UK’s leading distributors of building and construction materials, operating across a nationwide network of specialist brands and branches.

Part of the wider STARK Group, one of Europe’s largest building materials distribution businesses, the organisation supports customers across the construction sector through specialist expertise, strong supplier partnerships, and customer-focused service.

The business continues to invest in technology, reporting, and data-driven decision-making, with analytics and insight playing an increasingly important role in supporting commercial performance and operational improvement across the organisation.

ROLE

We're searching for a Junior Reporting and Dashboard Author to join us on a permanent basis. Sitting within the Insights & Analytics team, reporting into the Insights & Analytics Lead with the responsibility for report creation, dashboard development & KPI monitoring.

The role is responsible for designing, developing, maintaining, and improving reporting solutions and dashboards that provide accurate, timely, and actionable information to decision makers.

The role focuses on delivering trusted performance reporting, automating reporting processes, and ensuring trusted, consistent KPI measurement across the organisation.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES REPORTING & ANALYTICS

• Support and maintain existing Power BI dashboards and reporting solutions
• Create dashboards and visualisations using the chosen BI tools
• Assure dashboards within strategic SaaSs used by Stark UK and contribute to their design and development
• Develop visualisations which meet business requirements, are intuitive and support business decision-making.
• Review and optimise dashboards for performance and usability
• Produce regular operational, tactical, and strategic reports, ensuring reposts are delivered on time and accurately
• Help define reporting and visualisation standards

DATA & TECHNICAL SUPPORT

• Validate data used within reports and dashboards, identifying discrepancies and raising for resolution
• Work with SQL datasets and reporting structures to support analytics requirements
• Help devise and maintain standard definitions of KPIs and dimensions from both a technical and an easy-to-understand non-technical perspective.
• Maintain reporting accuracy, using data consistently and in the correct context across dashboards, reports and other data products

STAKEHOLDER & TEAM SUPPORT

• Interpret and challenge reporting requirements from business stakeholders, delivering desired outcomes and success criteria
• Deliver demos and documentation to explain reports and dashboards to the intended users
• Respond to interpretability questions from dashboard and report users
• Explain reporting and KPIs to non-technical people
• Collaborate with the Lead Analyst and wider analytics team on ongoing initiatives
• Support continuous improvement across reporting and analytics processes

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Deliver accurate and timely reporting outputs which satisfy business requirements
• Maintain standardised KPI & dimension definitions, enabling consistency across all reporting outputs
• Provide user friendly reporting which improves decision maker access to clearly understood information which drives self-service insights
• Identify opportunities and implement automated solutions to reduce manual processes.
• Contribute positively within a collaborative team environment
• Keep supporting documentation up to date with process changes

PERSON PROFILE ESSENTIAL

• Some exposure to building dashboards in Power BI
• MS Excel expertise
• Understanding data visualisation principles and best practice.
• Experience working with business KPIs and performance reporting
• Detail orientated
• Problem-solving ability experience and curiosity
• Experience supporting live dashboards and reporting environments

DESIRABLE

• Understanding of SQL and relational datasets
• Some exposure to building dashboards in SaaS (software as a service) products
• Knowledge of DAX, Power Query
• Knowledge of Pyspark
• Experience supporting live dashboards and reporting environments
• Experience automating reporting solutions
• Experience of other reporting and dashboard tools (Databricks, Qlik, Tableau, Looker, Amazon-Q)
• Microsoft 365 experience

What’s in it for you?

• Competitive Base salary
• Hybrid Working – 4 days at our Binley, Coventry office and 1 day WFH.
• Discretionary bonus
• Retirement savings plan
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave for anyone expecting or adopting a child
• A wide range of voluntary benefits including holiday buying, discounted gym membership, car salary sacrifice scheme, Cycle2Work, Benenden Healthcare and more.
• Access to a wealth of health and wellbeing services including access to online GP appointments and mental health support.
• WorkPerks – A platform home to hundreds of all your favourite high street and online discounts via the provider Reward Gateway.

Why Choose Us?

Quality - We’re unwavering in our commitment to providing outstanding products and service that exceed our customers’ expectations.

Supportive Environment - Join a culture that prioritises your growth, with the resources and support you need to excel. We listen and learn – we know we haven’t always got all the answers – listening and learning with you is what helps provide the best service to our customers.

Professional Development - We are invested in your success! Can we add this instead? You have a real chance to progress- the only limits are your own Explore our apprenticeships, training, and mentoring programs designed to elevate your career.

Great Benefits - Enjoy a compelling package that includes a competitive salary, bonuses, pension schemes, and life assurance, among many other perks!

Work-Life Balance - We value your well-being and offer flexible working hours and a hybrid working model to help you find your ideal rhythm

What's Next

If your application is successful, our Talent team will reach out to arrange an interview and answer any questions you may have. We are committed to providing reasonable adjustments to ensure you can perform at your best throughout the application and interview process.

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