Senior Retail Performance Analyst

Sharp & Carter Finance and Accounting; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Sharp & Carter Finance and Accounting is seeking an experienced analytics professional to join a high-growth national retail organisation. You will analyse sales, labour and store performance across a large network and translate data into commercial actions.

Responsibilities include improving labour productivity, rostering optimisation and delivering executive-level insights. Expect collaboration with senior leaders and opportunities to influence strategic decisions.

Qualifications

• Retail industry experience is essential.
• Expertise in labour analytics, workforce planning and rostering analytics.
• Experience supporting large multi-site retail operations.
• Ability to translate data into actionable business outcomes.
• Advanced Excel and BI platform exposure.

Responsibilities

• Analyse sales, labour and store performance trends across a large retail network.
• Identify opportunities to improve labour productivity and wages-to-sales performance.
• Provide actionable recommendations to optimise rostering and workforce allocation.
• Deliver executive-level reporting and commercial insights.
• Monitor and evaluate major promotional and trading events.
• Partner with retail leaders to drive store-level improvements.
• Support labour modelling, forecasting and demand planning initiatives.
• Lead offshore analytics support resources when required.

Skills

Labour analytics

Workforce planning

Rostering analytics

Data translation to insights

Excel

Power BI

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Our Client:

An opportunity has arisen to join a highly successful national organisation undergoing significant growth and expansion. Operating a large multi-site store network across Australia, this business is focused on enhancing sales performance, labour productivity, and operational efficiency through data-driven decision making.

Reporting directly to a senior executive leader, this is a highly visible role where your insights will influence strategy, challenge the status quo, and deliver measurable commercial outcomes.

The Opportunity

This is far more than a reporting position.

• Analyse sales, labour and store performance trends across a large retail network
• Identify opportunities to improve labour productivity and wages-to-sales performance
• Provide actionable recommendations to optimise rostering and workforce allocation
• Deliver executive-level reporting and commercial insights
• Monitor and evaluate major promotional and trading events
• Partner with retail leaders to drive store-level performance improvements
• Support labour modelling, forecasting and demand planning initiatives
• Lead and coordinate offshore analytics support resources where required

About You

To be successful in this role, you will bring:

• Retail industry experience is essential
• Demonstrated expertise in labour analytics, workforce planning, labour modelling, rostering analytics or labour productivity optimisation
• Experience supporting large multi-site retail operations
• Strong commercial acumen with the ability to translate data into actionable business outcomes
• Advanced Excel skills and exposure to Power BI, Tableau or similar BI platforms
• Outstanding stakeholder management skills with experience influencing operational and executive leaders
• A proactive, commercially minded approach and the confidence to challenge thinking where required

What's on Offer?

• High-profile role with direct exposure to senior executive leadership
• Opportunity to influence performance across a large national retail footprint
• Significant scope to drive measurable commercial outcomes
• Fast-paced, collaborative and commercially focused culture
• Genuine opportunity to make an impact from day one