At a Glance
- Tasks: Support data transformation by cleansing and preparing data for migration.
- Company: Join one of Scotland's oldest and largest Scotch Whisky producers.
- Benefits: Generous holiday, pension contributions, profit share, and health benefits.
- Other info: Great opportunities for professional development and career growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on data integrity and reporting in a historic company.
- Qualifications: Proficient in Excel, with strong analytical and communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 30000 - 40000 £ per year.
The Digital Data Assistant will support the organisation’s data transformation initiatives by ensuring that legacy and source data is accurately cleansed, standardised, and prepared for migration into target systems. The role is critical to maintaining data integrity, supporting regulatory compliance, and enabling reliable reporting and decision-making post-migration.
Skills & Experience
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel (data analysis, pivot tables, lookups, data manipulation).
- Ability to work with large datasets and perform structured analysis.
- Understanding of data quality principles, data structures, and basic data transformation concepts.
- Experience with data migration projects or system implementations (desirable).
- Exposure to tools such as Power BI, Power Query, or SQL (advantageous but not essential).
- Previous experience in data entry, administration, or data-related roles preferred.
- Exposure to data migration or system projects advantageous.
Behaviours
- Excellent attention to detail with a focus on data accuracy and completeness.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills—able to translate data issues into business terms.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across technical and operational teams.
- Ability to work in a structured, governance-led environment, with clear documentation and audit trails.
Main Responsibilities
- Working as part of a team to ensure that all activities on site are carried out in accordance with the relevant work instruction, adhering to the necessary Company health, safety and environmental requirements and complying with all regulatory current legislation to maintain a safe working environment for all employees.
- Maintaining an awareness of the regulatory and Company standards that apply to the role such as H&S, COMAH, Environment, HMRC, FEMAS (food & feed safety), ISO9001.
- Understand and act in accordance with the Site Emergency Response Plan in the event of an evacuation or major incident, and regularly participate in COMAH improvement activity.
- Data Quality & Cleansing
- Review, cleanse, and standardise datasets in line with defined data standards and business rules.
- Identify and correct data inconsistencies, duplication, and inaccuracies.
- Support continuous improvement of data quality across core systems.
- Data Migration Support
- Validate migrated data to ensure completeness, accuracy, and integrity.
- Maintain audit trails of changes for traceability and compliance.
- Data Governance & Compliance
- Apply data standards, naming conventions, and classification rules.
- Support data ownership and stewardship activities across departments.
- Ensure data handling aligns with internal policies and regulatory requirements.
- Reporting & Analysis Support
- Prepare structured datasets for reporting and business intelligence use.
- Assist analysts and stakeholders with data preparation and validation.
- Highlight data quality risks that may impact reporting accuracy.
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Work with business teams to understand data requirements and issues.
- Communicate data-related issues clearly and professionally.
- Undertake any training or qualifications that are required to fulfil your role competently and/or to meet changing legislative and safety requirements.
- Lead and support continuous improvement activities to deliver productivity and cost efficiencies and improve operational performance.
- Any other duties that may reasonably be required in line with your contractual role.
Company & Benefits
Founded in 1885, The North British Distillery Company Ltd (North British) is one of Scotland’s oldest and largest Scotch Whisky producers. We are based in Edinburgh and operate across production, warehousing and related activities. Benefits include:
- Generous holiday allowance.
- Generous pension contribution (employer contribution up to 15% based on employee contribution of 10%).
- Access to Profit Share Scheme, Business Scorecard Bonus Scheme and individual performance awards (subject to eligibility).
- Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave package.
- Life Assurance cover.
- Ongoing professional and personal development.
- Health and wellbeing benefits including physiotherapy sessions and Cycle to Work.
- Counselling and life management support.
- Charity fundraising double matched donations.
- Electric vehicle scheme.
- Discounted AA membership rate.
- Long service awards.
Digital Data Assistant employer: The North British Distillery Company Ltd.
The North British Distillery Company Ltd offers a dynamic and supportive work environment in the heart of Edinburgh, where employees are valued for their contributions to our data transformation initiatives. With a strong focus on professional development, generous benefits including a substantial pension contribution and health and wellbeing support, we empower our Digital Data Assistants to thrive while ensuring data integrity and compliance in our operations. Join us to be part of a historic company that champions continuous improvement and employee engagement.
Contact Details:
The North British Distillery Company Ltd. Recruitment Team
