Data Analyst - Merchandising in Chester-le-Street

Opportunity to join our Merchandising team as a Data Analyst, based in our Head Office in Street, Somerset BA16 0EQ.

Job Overview

To support the regional Merchandising function, providing insights to action, to optimise our performance. Develop the analytics and tools that support understanding and effective merchandising decision making. Work collaboratively across the Merchandising function to continuously develop and enhance reporting & dashboards. Deliver facts and insights, and support effective and timely decision making.

Responsibilities

• Produce and maintain long term, short term and historical tools to enable merchandising to get the right product, the right place, at the right time, at the right price.
• Deliver accurate view of NTO, GM, Pairs, ROS, ST, Flat Cover and Inventory by Channel, Gender and BU, over the required timelines, for Merchandising to take action, as well as communicate recommendations to key internal and external stakeholders.
• Provide reporting to support Merchandising to deliver robust seasonal planning and dynamic, quality trading.
• Ensure connectivity to Brand Strategy and Season Merchandising strategies and planning in order to understand the business priorities and needs, when carrying out every aspect of the role.
• Provide reporting and analytics feeding from multiple systems and executed into a fit for purpose reporting suite.
• Maintain accuracy and relevance of reporting suite, including sharing updates to ensure understanding and use of the reports.
• Feedback to line manager any process or data integrity issues to ensure problems are fixed in a timely manner and for transparency.
• Work collaboratively across the region to ensure connectivity and alignment to wider reporting within the region and therefore delivery of consistent facts and insight within the business.

Qualifications

Skills: Highly numerate with advanced analytical skills. Excellent IT skills, advanced level: Excel, VBA, SQL, databases, Power BI.

Knowledge: Good knowledge and understanding of each Merchandising discipline.

Experience: Problem solving in a complex merchandising environment. Good working knowledge of regional merchandising systems. Expert knowledge of reporting suite system.

Why join us?

At Clarks, you'll be part of a brand with heritage, craftsmanship, and style at its core. We offer great training, career progression, and the chance to make your mark in a global business.

About Clarks

Clarks, based in Somerset, England, has been at the forefront of innovative shoemaking since its foundation in 1825 when brothers James and Cyrus Clark made a slipper from sheepskin off‑cuts. At the time, it was ground‑breaking: a combination of invention and craftsmanship that has remained at the heart of what the brand does now. In the Clarks archive, more than 22,000 pairs of shoes have sparked revolutions and defined generations. From the original Clarks Desert Boot, first designed by Nathan Clark and launched in 1950, to the iconic Wallabee, each design has an instantly recognisable signature that makes it unmistakably Clarks.

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