Data Analyst

April 6, 2024

Job Description


Job title: Data Analyst

Company: Pavers

Job description: Following internal promotion, we have an opportunity for a Data Analyst to join our Head Office Data Team at Pavers, based at Northminster Business Park, York. This role is offered as a full-time permanent opportunity in a growing business where you are encouraged to develop your skills in a supportive environment.Our data team have a key role to play in the business’s operations, and as a Data Analyst, you will deliver actionable insights from large datasets to drive strategic decision-making and support improvement in operational efficiencies across all departments within Pavers. The business is continually growing and evolving, moving at a fast pace, and good quality insightful data is key to ensuring this continues.You’ll report into the Data Controller in a wider Data Team of 4 people. Your main responsibility will be to deliver analytics & insights for Snowflake Data Warehouse and Tableau to the business, to agreed timescales, highlighting key metrics and findings.The role encompasses maintaining and enhancing existing reports and dashboards as well as working on business prioritised projects in line with data strategy. The role will suit an individual who has an analytical mindset, high attention to detail, and is keen to learn & grow in a fast-paced environment.Salary & Benefits for our Data Analyst;£30,000 – £35,000 per annum depending on experience plus;

  • Generous Staff Discount
  • Discretionary Annual Bonus scheme
  • Free onsite parking at York Head Office
  • Death In Service Benefit
  • Holiday Entitlement (Increases with service)
  • Company Contribution Pension
  • Access to RetailTRUST (Wellbeing & Financial Support)
  • Access to the Pavers Foundation: employee-led grant application and charitable giving scheme
  • Access to wider training and development opportunities through Pavers Academy

Main duties of our Data Analyst

  • Convert data into insights for key business stakeholders by developing and maintaining reports and dashboards and working on projects prioritised by the business and aligned with the data strategy
  • Build SQL queries, to extract data from the Snowflake data warehouse, and develop Tableau dashboards to communicate key findings and metrics to stakeholders across the organisation
  • Maintain and enhance existing reports and dashboards
  • Ensure company reporting standards are adhered to
  • Ensure team documentation is maintained
  • Support other team members to locate and use relevant sources of reporting data
  • Promote data privacy, security and best practice across all business areas
  • Identify opportunities for process improvement and optimisation to enhance data-driven decision-making capabilities

About you

  • Strong analytical skills with experience in statistical analysis and data visualisation tools. (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Sisense)
  • Proficient in SQL queries
  • A minimum of 2 years Data Analyst or reporting analyst experience
  • Ideally you will have experience of using Tableau in a commercial environment
  • Experience of using data warehouse platforms would be beneficial

About UsAt Pavers we are passionate about providing comfort and happiness to our customers, and we make sure to employ people who are as passionate as we are. We always look for happy, confident, upbeat people, and we provide great jobs in a supportive family environment for them. We know that without our colleagues there is no business, and so the better we look after you, the better service you will provide our customers.Pavers is a growing, highly profitable, independent family-run business with a strong balance sheet, employing over 1,800 people across our estate of circa 200 Stores, Head Office & Distribution Centre, and we remain acquisitive.We were voted one of the Top 10 Employers in Retail in the UK in 2020 and were recognised as a 3* Employer with ‘World Class’ levels of workplace engagement by Best Companies in 2023. At Pavers we truly believe the talents, passion, and dedication of our employees are the reasons for our success. As of 2023 we are working towards obtaining menopause friendly status.In 2021 we became the first major retailer to achieve Carbon Neutral status and have proudly maintained this standard ever since. Championing sustainability is at the heart of everything that we do, and we’re committed to changing the future of retail for the better acting in an environmentally and socially responsible manner.Giving back is in our nature as a Business and in 2018 we established the Pavers Foundation, in the memory of our late founder, Catherine Paver. Since then, the Foundation has awarded grants for causes close to our colleagues’ hearts for; community, education, and areas of health, totalling more than £2m, growing year on year.If this sounds like the kind of business you’d like to know more about, we’d love to hear from you – please apply today for the role of Data Analyst!

Expected salary: £35000 per year

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