Lead Analyst - Luxury Retail

FreshMinds Talent
London
1 year ago
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A global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products is seeking a senior analyst to join their global customer insights team.

You will provide deep dive analysis on the client’s customers and their purchase behaviours, in order to build recommendations of how to better cater for customers, and drive their loyalty and revenue. You will use your technical skills to access, summarise, and manipulate customer data, and turn these into valuable insights to support decision making.

Responsibilities:

Designing the targeted data extracts, manipulations and summarisations Sourcing and applying the best technical methodology and approach Proposing when and where they may benefit from using Data Science or set up more automated reporting Ability to think creatively to identify and deliver new, innovative analytical projects from existing and new data sources Champion analytical best practice such as test and learn practices and disseminating between correlation and causation Ability to communicate actionable insights and turn complex analysis into meaningful, compelling recommendations

Requirements:

Minimum 4+ years’ Data Analyst experience, ideally with experience of analysing Customer transactional-level data Previous experience within the luxury brand or retailer markets is a must Understanding of transactional / behavioural data sources and their use, from both internal and external (panel, market level) sources Solid understanding and experience of programming languages (SQL, Python, recipe-based solutions like Dataiku, Alteryx) Fully Fluent in Excel and PowerPoint.

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