Our Data & Analytics Team has an exciting opportunity for an Analytics Business Partner to take on their next career challenge.
In this role, you will play an important role in ensuring that the business has a strong connection to our team, and that our team has its finger on the pulse of what is needed. You will ensure that the work the team undertakes makes sense commercially, is actionable, meets the needs of the business and goes on to be used and have a positive impact. You will work with our agile squads of Analytics Engineers, and our Data Science and Platform teams to help shape the direction of data and analytics at the Forge Holiday Group.
In return for your hard work, we can ensure you join a vibrant, inclusive work culture and make the most of fantastic career progression opportunities alongside some impressive company benefits!
Paying a salary between £55,000 and £65,000 per annum, 37.5 hours per week, Monday-Friday.
Plus access to our annual STIP (annual company-wide bonus) scheme up to 20%
️ 33 days annual leave including bank holidays
Plus an additional day off for your Birthday
Plus an additional two volunteering days per year
A flexible hybrid-working policy, with a minimum of two days a week from our Chester head office
An enhanced maternity and paternity policy
Inclusive and supportive work environment
Employee discounts and benefits with your wellbeing at the centre
Opportunities for career progression, personal development and opportunities to be recognised
Comprehensive training and development programs to set you up for success
Study support for additional qualifications, courses and accreditations
Numerous dedicated wellbeing initiatives and access to 24/7 mental health support
️️ On-site gym at our Chester HQ.
Reporting to the Analytics Manager, you will lead a team of analysts within our Insights Team to drive data-informed decision-making across the business.
You will be an expert at telling stories with data, and will lead your squad to ensure that we are prioritising work that causes significant impact, performing analysis to a high standard and meeting the needs of a rapidly growing business.
This role would be well suited to someone with a strong technical foundation, and experience with communicating findings to stakeholders whether that was in a corporate or consulting setting. A proactive go-get attitude and "how can I help" mindset is essential to succeed in this dynamic, fast-paced role.
Your Responsibilities
Squad leadership
* Managing the funnel of work to ensure that our team drives the greatest impact that it can (through approving business requests and partnering with the business to create initiatives for your squad to work on that are aligned to OKRs).
* You will also ensure that the business is served with BAU information it requires, managing available squad resource to balance initiatives and BAU requests.
* Coach analysts in best practices to ensure efficient and effective work delivery across tools and techniques.
Stakeholder collaboration
* Bridging data & analytics with other business units, understanding needs and proactively identifying opportunities for data to be used to build competitive edge or inform decision making.
* Driving a positive image of D&A in your area, and ensuring that your stakeholders are receiving the data that they need, when they need it, regardless of whether they ask for it.
* Gathering requirements from stakeholders, scoping work effectively, and driving a culture of data fluency across the business.
* Driving a culture of self-service, and helping to shape the tools and training we need to provide the business to achieve this.
* Ensuring that analysis/reports/dashboards are to a high standard and comply with best practice ways of working to be delivered effectively and accurately.
* Focusing on designing ‘right fit’ solutions that leverage the squad's capabilities, including predictive and prescriptive analytics through crossover with our data science team.
* Ensuring adherence to principles such as Data > Insight > Action and storytelling for impactful reporting.
Any other duties that are within the scope, spirit and purpose of the job as requested by your line manager.
Skills and Qualifications
We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success!
By Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion to Learning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.
First and foremost we are interested in those who have the potential to hold these values, as for this position, we ask you to have the following key skills:
* A strong foundation in analytics best practice across a range of tools (our core analytics tools are Tableau, SQL, and Excel).
* An evangelist of concepts such as Data > Insight > Action and storytelling with data to drive effective communication of findings across presentations, reports and dashboards.
* Strong commercial experience (ideally within the holiday lettings or travel and tourism industry).
* Demonstrable experience delivering projects/initiatives on time and to a high quality.
* Experience managing and coaching more junior colleagues.
* Experience managing senior stakeholders (including c-suite).
Although standouts will also have:
* Advantageous to have specific experience influencing commercial decision making in an e-Commerce business.
* Numerate advanced degree advantageous.
* Experience creating predictive/prescriptive analytics through dashboards and other data products.
If you are actively seeking your next career challenge, keen to join a diverse, exciting team, or want to grow your career within an industry leader, we welcome you to get in touch or apply!
The Forge Holiday Group
The Forge Holiday Group encompasses Sykes Holiday Cottages, Forest Holidays, UKcaravans4hire and Bachcare in New Zealand and unites us under four company values, which are the foundations of every aspect of our business and remain at the heart of everything we do. By Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion to Learning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.
Diversity and Inclusion:
We encourage and welcome our people to bring their authentic and best selves to work every day. We know the power that comes from different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives. We recognise the role diversity plays in achieving our goals as a business. We actively welcome applications from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible. If you need any particular support or accommodations as part of your application process, please get in touch - our recruitment team are happy to help.
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