Overview
About the job
We are seeking a data-savvy and commercially minded Retail Space & Cluster Data Analyst to join our analytics team within Merchandising.
This role plays a key part in optimising store layouts and tailoring retail strategies by analysing space utilisation and developing data-driven store clusters.
You’ll work cross-functionally to help ensure the right products are in the right stores, in the right way — maximising performance and enhancing the customer experience
Whilst this is a fixed term opening of 12 months, we have lots of opportunities within the company and many colleagues initially joined on this basis.
This position follows a 5 day working week, 3 days office based.
Hilmore House, our head office, offers convenient amenities, including a subsidised on-site restaurant, coffee shop, convenience and sample store, a prayer room, free parking, and frequent company wide events and promotions.
Applicants should live within a reasonable commuting distance of our office.
Some of your responsibilities will include:
Responsibilities
* Be a role model for the business and department’s core purposes, whilst ensuring continual customer focus and alignment to leadership direction.
* Manage time, critical paths and workload effectively in line with agreed business processes to enable successfully delivers of all structured activity
* Being proficient in all associated systems to fully leverage all functionality and automation to ensure wasted effort is removed, whilst driving a tangible benefit to customers and colleagues.
* Support the continuous improvement across Business/Support team activity, as well as other stakeholder relationships and processes through understanding them and their importance and impacts on others.
* Understand and utilise all available data and reporting to clearly
* Demonstrate improvements to on shelf availability.
* Delegate responsibility effectively to drive performance, alongside helping to create an environment that encourages leadership and growth in others. Provide recommendations as well as opportunities for the team to find common ways of working using your specialist knowledge positively
* Engagement in Business Teams ways of working to ensure an optimised output that delivers against the plan and corporate purpose.
* Collaborative working with Business Teams to deliver
* Customer-focused planograms that deliver commercial strategies through the use of robust and detailed data analysis that help to promote category growth.
* Provide first class service and support within Business Teams to all stakeholders
About you
* Bachelor's degree in Business, Data Analytics, Merchandising, Geography (GIS), or relevant experience
* Strong analytical skills with proficiency in Excel, SQL, and data visualisation tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI).
* Familiarity with planogram software (e.g., JDA Space Planning/Blue Yonder, Spaceman) and clustering tools or methods.
* Ability to interpret data, draw meaningful conclusions, and present actionable insights to stakeholders.
* Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
* Broad Merchandising experience in Retail environments.
* Proven experience in space planning, store clustering, or retail data analysis.
* Proficient at analysing and presenting complex data
* A key player in effective, high performing teams
About us
In return for all your hard work, you will receive:
* 15% discount in store from the day you join us
* Additional 10% discount card for a friend or family member
* Annual bonus scheme
* Career progression and development opportunities
* Generous holiday entitlement
* Market leading pension scheme and life assurance
* Healthcare benefits including Aviva Digital GP
* ‘MyPerks’ giving you discount with over 850 retailers
* Free parking onsite
* Enhanced Family, Maternity and Paternity Leave
* Private Healthcare
Alive with activity, our modern Head Office is home to our corporate teams that make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, Morrisons Daily and a subsidised restaurant. We are within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - and we even have free parking!
At our Head Office you will expect to find supplier showcases, charity fundraising and celebrations all year round for the events that mean the most to our colleagues.
There’s more to our business as it’s fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve got lots of fresh opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you!
At Morrisons, we’re proud to be building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We want every colleague to feel respected, supported and able to be themselves at work. Different voices, experiences and ways of thinking help us grow and improve and that’s good for our customers too.
We’re always looking for people from all walks of life to join us and bring their talents to our team. Together, we can build a workplace where everyone has the chance to thrive and make a difference.
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