At a Glance
- Tasks: Drive business performance through insightful analytics and reporting.
- Company: Dynamic company in Welwyn Garden City with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, 20% bonus, and flexible working arrangements.
- Other info: Opportunity to coach peers and elevate analytical standards.
- Why this job: Shape decisions and drive performance improvements in a collaborative environment.
- Qualifications: Strong analytical skills, experience with SQL, and excellent communication abilities.
The predicted salary is between 65000 - 75000 £ per year.
In this role, you will be accountable for:
- Analytics & Business Performance
- Own and steer commercial performance reporting, ensuring senior stakeholders have clear, timely visibility of delivery against plan and the levers to improve outcomes.
- Translate complex data into decision-grade insight—diagnosing root causes, framing the right questions, designing robust analytical approaches, and driving implementation with the business.
- Set a high bar for data accuracy, governance and interpretation, converting outputs into a clear performance narrative with context, implications and recommended actions.
- Influence with clarity and credibility—articulating opportunities, insights and proposals succinctly, tailoring your approach to different audiences and building alignment across stakeholders.
- Lead the ongoing evolution of our insight and reporting suite, improving automation, relevance and usability so teams can act quickly on performance drivers and priorities.
- People & Delivery Management
- Partner closely with Commercial, Finance, Product, Fulfilment, Digital and Technology to shape high-quality analytical briefs—clarifying objectives, success measures and decision points.
- Lead delivery through to impact—setting clear plans, managing dependencies and risks, and communicating progress, trade-offs and recommendations to maintain momentum and confidence.
- Role-model best-in-class analytical practice, coaching peers and junior analysts, and raising standards across insight, storytelling and stakeholder management.
What you will bring:
- To succeed, you will be a commercially-minded problem solver with a track record of delivering insight that shapes decisions and drives measurable performance improvement.
- Advanced analytical and numerical capability, with strong commercial judgement.
- Proven ability to structure ambiguous problems, simplify complexity, and connect analysis to business context, trade-offs and outcomes.
- Strong capability in Excel and PowerPoint, and experience with BI tooling (ideally Tableau/Adobe Analytics) to create clear, compelling, self-serve reporting that supports decision-making at pace.
- Experience using SQL (or similar) to extract, shape and validate data from databases; Python/R and automation capability is an advantage.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence and build alignment across cross-functional stakeholders.
- A strong understanding of eCommerce/retail dynamics.
Analyst / Senior Analyst (Permanent) in Welwyn Garden City employer: SRM Recruitment
Join a dynamic and innovative team in Welwyn Garden City, where we prioritise employee growth and collaboration. Our culture fosters continuous learning and development, offering robust training programmes and mentorship opportunities to help you excel in your career. With competitive salaries, a generous bonus structure, and a commitment to work-life balance, we ensure that our analysts thrive both professionally and personally in a supportive environment.
We think you need these skills to ace Analyst / Senior Analyst (Permanent) in Welwyn Garden City
Analytics & Business Performance
Data Accuracy and Governance
Root Cause Analysis
Analytical Approaches
Stakeholder Management
Automation of Reporting
Excel
