Location Analyst
TJX Europe
At TJX Europe, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You'll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritises your development. Whether you're working in our Distribution Centers, Corporate Offices, or Retail Stores-TK Maxx & Homesense, you'll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX team-a Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer.
Job Description:
This role will act as a key strategic lead for geographic and location-based analysis across Europe. The primary business partner is the Property team, responsible for new store acquisitions and portfolio management across all European markets. The role will also support broader business areas, including Marketing, Merchandising, and Finance.
The position requires strong analytical and presentation skills, along with the ability to work independently and operate with a high degree of autonomy. Occasional travel across Europe for site visits will be required .
You will be part of a well-established analytics community within the Marketing function. While the primary focus is supporting Property, there will also be opportunities to contribute to the customer analytics agenda, particularly in areas of shared interest such as GPS and mobility data.
In addition to GIS tools, you will have access to a modern analytics tech stack, supported by IT partners, providing a comprehensive view of the TJX customer.
We are committed to continuous development, offering access to training resources and the support of a highly experienced team to help you grow your career.
What you'll do:
Business Partnering
As proud as we are of our past success, it's our future that excites us most. We strive to provide opportunities for growth, recognition and a competitive salary and benefits package. Share our determination to think bolder and bigger, and be part of our future. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.
Address:
73 Clarendon Road
Location:
EUR Home Office Watford GB
At TJX Europe, every day brings new opportunities for growth, exploration, and achievement. You'll be part of our vibrant team that embraces diversity, fosters collaboration, and prioritises your development. Whether you're working in our Distribution Centers, Corporate Offices, or Retail Stores-TK Maxx & Homesense, you'll find abundant opportunities to learn, thrive, and make an impact. Come join our TJX team-a Fortune 100 company and the world's leading off-price retailer.
Job Description:
This role will act as a key strategic lead for geographic and location-based analysis across Europe. The primary business partner is the Property team, responsible for new store acquisitions and portfolio management across all European markets. The role will also support broader business areas, including Marketing, Merchandising, and Finance.
The position requires strong analytical and presentation skills, along with the ability to work independently and operate with a high degree of autonomy. Occasional travel across Europe for site visits will be required .
You will be part of a well-established analytics community within the Marketing function. While the primary focus is supporting Property, there will also be opportunities to contribute to the customer analytics agenda, particularly in areas of shared interest such as GPS and mobility data.
In addition to GIS tools, you will have access to a modern analytics tech stack, supported by IT partners, providing a comprehensive view of the TJX customer.
We are committed to continuous development, offering access to training resources and the support of a highly experienced team to help you grow your career.
What you'll do:
Business Partnering
- Act as a key business partner to Property teams across European markets
- B uild strong relationships, developing a deep understanding of business priorities and opportunities to provide impactful analytical support
- Conduct GIS-based analysis to support decisions on new stores, relocations, and expansions
- Develop and maintain data products (dashboards and apps) to improve access to property and customer insights
- Deliver regular analysis for Property Board meetings, including monthly demographic and catchment reporting
- Forecast sales cannibalisation ("sales steal") from new store openings, and contextualise post-opening performance
- Lead ad hoc strategic projects, such as:
- Regional deep-dives (e.g. London)
- Evaluation of store portfolios offered by other retailers
- Manage the annual Customer Postcode Capture process:
- Coordinate timelines with Operations, IT, and Marketing
- Monitor weekly compliance
- Process raw data to produce customer catchments and profiles, and share insights across the business - Build strong relationships with external data and software providers, identifying opportunities to enhance capability (e.g. mobility data)
- Maintain and govern key property datasets, ensuring appropriate access and usage
- Identify location-based opportunities to drive store performance using data sources such as census, mobility, and footfall data
- Generate insights to drive cross-brand shopping (e.g. TK Maxx customers visiting Homesense locations)
- Analyse how location health impacts store performance
- Identify and support cross-border shopping opportunities and commercialisation
- Strong working knowledge of GIS software and associated datasets
- Experience with Carto (desirable)
- Strong analytical capability, with solid SQL skills preferred
- Strong quantitative skills, with the ability to translate analysis into commercial recommendations
- Ability to communicate insights clearly and succinctly to both technical and non-technical audiences
- Excellent presentation skills, including building compelling narratives
- Curious mindset with a strong drive to learn and develop
- Proven ability to build effective working relationships and influence stakeholders
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- Comfort working with ambiguity and using cross-functional context to inform decisions
- Confidence and objectivity in presenting views, including in challenging discussions
- Experience building and maintaining Tableau or Power BI dashboards (desirable)
- Experience with Python and mapping libraries (desirable)
As proud as we are of our past success, it's our future that excites us most. We strive to provide opportunities for growth, recognition and a competitive salary and benefits package. Share our determination to think bolder and bigger, and be part of our future. We consider all applicants for employment without regard to age, disability, gender, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and/or sexual orientation.
Address:
73 Clarendon Road
Location:
EUR Home Office Watford GB