Data Analyst -Commercial

Data Analyst (Location: Dublin – Ireland)
Purpose of role: The mission for the Data & Analytics team is to enable and empower our partners across the business to use high impact data & analytics tools, technologies, and methodologies to drive business insights & improve business outcomes.

As a Data Analyst, your key area of focus will be to identify trends, patterns, and insights from structured and unstructured data sources. With direction from your Data & Analytics Business Partner, you will be responsible for generating actionable insights via a range of self-service / on-demand reporting solutions and communicating outcomes to business teams. You will be required to translate complex results into simple conclusions that will empower the business to act.

Reports to: Data & Analytics Business Partner (Location: Dublin – Ireland)

Key Responsibilities:

Delivery of Data & Analytics Products

• Work with business stakeholders to establish data and analytics business requirements.
• Collect, interpret and analyse structured and unstructured data to deliver data driven insight to support strategic business decision-making.
• Extract, transform and load required business datasets.
• Profile and cleanse business datasets prior to data analysis work.
• Communicate any identified data quality issues to data governance team.
• Plan, design & develop dashboards, data visualisations and storyboards.
• Collaborate with the wider Data & Analytics team to deliver Data & Analytics products & services that deliver a high business impact.

Communication of Actionable Insights

• Take strategic direction from Data & Analytics Business Partner.
• Communicate actionable insights to business teams.

Contributing to the Data & Analytics Community

• Support the development of Data & Analytics skills and knowledge of spoke community members.
• Promote cross functional ways of working in support of Data & Analytics initiatives ensuring adherence to standards and leading practices.
• Encourage business user adoption of Data & Analytics products within your business domain.
• Keep abreast of developments and trends in data analysis techniques and tools.

Essential knowledge, skills, and experience:

• A Bachelor or master’s degree in a quantitative field (Operations Research, Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Math, Economics, Statistics, Analytics, Management/Business Information Systems (or related degree))
• 4+ years of demonstrable experience as a data analyst or similar role
• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with data from multiple sources
• Knowledge of analytics and BI platforms (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, IMB Cognos)
• Data Extract, Transform & Load (ETL) skills are essential
• Experience with at least one programming language other than SQL e.g., Python, R

The ideal candidate will have:

• Strong analytical and numerical skills
• The capacity to conduct data quality control and validation
• A knack for providing clear data visualisations
• Experience of data analysis techniques and statistical methodologies
• Strong interpersonal skills, ability to collaborate, influence and coach others
• Ability to question and challenge ensuring we are continuously improving our processes and measuring the right data
• Operates with a high level of integrity, diplomacy, tact, and professionalism
• Strong standout colleague with a focus on delivering a best-in-class service to our business partners
• Energetic and enjoys working with diverse partners across Primark