Lead Data Analyst - Commercial Analytics
In just 10 years, Octopus Energy has evolved from a disruptive challenger into the UK’s largest energy retailer and a well-loved brand, serving more than 8 million customers.
Key Responsibilities
- Own end-to-end pricing operations for domestic tariffs, including launches, quarterly price changes, margin reporting and intelligence, and ensuring regulatory / price cap compliance for millions of customers.
- Drive pricing strategy and optimisation through competitor intelligence, market analysis, and data-driven recommendations to the Senior Leadership Team.
- Own and evolve commercial reporting pipelines across customer switching, sales activity from all channels, marketing campaigns, retention and competitor insight.
- Deliver growth and customer insight, including key metric reporting, funnel analysis, customer forecasting, and retention initiatives.
- Set priorities, coordinate and review the work of a small, high-performance team of data analysts.
- Partner with Commercial, Sales, Marketing, Energy Markets, Flexibility, Gross Margin and Strategic Finance teams to provide customer forecasting inputs, KPI reporting, margin analysis and strategic support.
- Contribute to and collaborate with our global working groups to ensure aligned reporting and shared analytics projects.
- Champion data best practices and continuous improvement in analytics engineering, tools and automated processes.
Requirements
- Hands-on expertise with modern data platforms and analytical tools (especially SQL and python - see our full stack below).
- Strong commercial acumen, preferably in pricing, margin optimisation, and/or growth analytics.
- Proven experience mentoring and developing data professionals.
- Strong communication skills to influence non-technical stakeholders and senior leadership.
- A track record of delivering actionable insights that drive measurable business impact.
- Python, pandas and SQL in Jupyter notebooks for analysis
- dbt and Databricks data platform with Delta Lake
- Lightdash as our BI tool and semantic layer
- Streamlit for interactive data applications
- Airflow for orchestration
- CI/CD with GitHub and CircleCI
- Infrastructure on AWS, deployed with Terraform / Spacelift
Lead Data Analyst - Commercial Analytics in London employer: NextGenEnergyJobs
NextGenEnergyJobs is an exceptional employer that fosters a collaborative and innovative work culture, perfect for those passionate about driving change in the home energy sector. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, we offer ample opportunities for professional development and mentorship, ensuring that our team members thrive in their roles. Located in a vibrant area, we provide a dynamic environment where your contributions directly impact our mission to create sustainable energy solutions.
