We’re looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our Merchandising team, supporting our three Heads of Merchandising and the Trading Director in delivering accurate, insightful, and timely analysis that drives commercial decisions across the business.
In this role, you’ll consolidate trading and financial performance across categories, turning complex data into clear insight that helps drive sales, margin, and stock efficiency. Your analysis will ensure that the numbers roll up, helping translate complex data into actionable insights that guide strategy, forecasting, and trading decisions, giving leadership a reliable view of the financials across our merchandising function.
You will be responsible for:
1. Partnering with the Heads of Merchandising and the Trading Director to consolidate performance data across product categories, channels, and markets.
2. Building and maintaining robust financial and trading dashboards to clearly present KPIs, trends, and variances.
3. Supporting weekly, monthly, and seasonal performance reviews with accurate, well-structured reporting.
4. Ensuring all merchandising financials (sales, margin, stock, intake, markdowns, etc.) are correctly rolled up to provide a single, reliable view of performance.
5. Collaborating with Finance and Data teams to align on definitions, structures, and forecasting methodologies.
6. Identifying and communicating data-driven insights that help improve profitability, efficiency, and stock management.
7. Driving process improvements and automation opportunities across reporting and data consolidation.
To be successful in this role, you will have:
8. Proven experience as a Senior or Lead Data Analyst, ideally within FMCG, retail, or consumer goods.
9. Strong commercial acumen and understanding of sales, margin, volume, and stock metrics.
10. Advanced Excel skills and experience using Power BI, Tableau, or similar visualization tools.
11. Confidence working with large datasets and complex hierarchies (product, customer, channel).
12. Excellent communication skills and be able to simplify complex data into clear stories that drive decisions.
13. Ability to work at pace in a dynamic, trading-led environment.
Why join us?
This is a unique opportunity to shape a new function and play a critical role in the evolution of our store estate. You’ll be joining at a pivotal time, with the scope to make a tangible impact on how our customers experience B&M
We offer you a range of great benefits including discount in our stores, a colleague portal offering discount for numerous retailers, hospitality & much more!