Business Improvement & Retail Analyst

UK Greetings; Dewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading greetings and celebrations company in Dewsbury seeks a data-driven thinker to transform data into actionable insights. The role involves working closely with major retailers to optimize sales and manage stock effectively using modern BI tools. Candidates should possess strong analytical skills, understand merchandising dynamics, and be proficient in BI reporting and SQL. This position offers hybrid working and a range of employee benefits, including development opportunities and a supportive workplace culture.

Benefits

Hybrid Working

Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Employee Referral Scheme

Free onsite parking

Employee discount shop

Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme

Development opportunities

Employee Assistance Programme

Employee wellbeing support

Employee Recognition scheme

Qualifications

• Proven analytical experience with the ability to interpret and challenge data.
• Strong understanding of buying cycles and stock management.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Working with a major grocer to handle customer demands.
• Delivering core KPIs across various metrics.
• Designing and maintaining reporting for stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical skills

Commercial understanding of merchandising

BI reporting

Forecasting

SQL

Tableau

Advanced Excel

Communication

Tools

Tableau

Alteryx

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Learn more about us and the role :

UK Greetings is on the lookout for a data-driven thinker who can turn numbers into meaningful narratives. If you’re passionate about transforming complex data into commercial decisions, this role offers the opportunity to make a real impact across one of our key retail partners.

You’ll sit at the heart of our strategy, blending business intelligence with merchandising insight to optimise sales, margin, stock efficiency, and in-store performance. Acting as the specialist for both internal and customer data, you’ll deliver reports, challenge trends, influence buying decisions, and help drive continuous improvement through modern analytical tools.

What you’ll be doing

• Working with a major grocer, handling customer demands and expectations.
• Delivering core KPIs across sales, stock, intake phasing, margin, sell-through and waste.
• Designing, automating and maintaining reporting for stakeholders across the business and the customer.
• Using modern BI tools to identify opportunities, streamline processes, and shape strategy.
• Building seasonal buying plans using performance history and trend forecasting.
• Recommending seasonal condensing strategies and allocation requirements to maximise sell-through.
• Managing stock intake, cover and distribution in line with commercial objectives.
• Forecasting promotional uplift and balancing store space to deliver optimum results.
• Monitoring sales performance vs plan, proposing timely actions to protect or grow results.
• Presenting insights and recommendations to internal teams and retail Merchandising / Buying partners.
• Acting as the data & insight specialist for designated accounts, making confident analytical decisions.

What we’re looking for

• Proven analytical experience with the ability to interpret, validate, and challenge data.
• Strong commercial understanding of merchandising, buying cycles and stock management.
• Experience in BI reporting, forecasting and working with large datasets.
• Able to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurately to deadlines.
• Confident communicator who can make insights accessible to non-technical audiences.
• Curious, proactive, collaborative and highly organised.
• Experience using Tableau & Alteryx (Or similar Software)
• Experience using SQL
• Microsoft Office : Advanced Excel + PowerPoint

If you’re someone who can turn data into decisions and enjoys partnering with teams to find the best commercial outcomes, we’d love to hear from you. Apply today and help shape the way UK Greetings delivers for its retail partners.

Notes / Brief for Recruitment Team

Who we are

We help make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day with our greeting cards, gift dressings and party supplies products created for life’s big events, special occasions, and those “saw-this-and-thought-of-you” moments in life.

Along with our sister company John Sands, who are based in Australia and New Zealand, we’re part of the American Greetings Corporation, one of the largest privately owned greeting card publishers in the world.

As the largest direct to retail publisher of greeting cards and social expression products in the UK, we are the celebrations destination. You’ll find our amazing products in major supermarkets, high street retailers, and independent stores across the UK and internationally, as well as digital online marketplaces.

Here at UK Greetings we take pride in being an inclusive and diverse employer - we are dedicated and committed to building a culture where difference is valued and everyone is able to fulfil their potential at work regardless of their background.

Benefits

• Hybrid Working, working from home and our Dewsbury offices with flexibility around start and finish times
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies
• Employee Referral Scheme
• Free onsite parking at Head Office sites
• Employee discount shop
• Auto-enrolled Pension Scheme
• Development opportunities; offering qualifications from Level 3 to 6
• Employee Assistance Programme (EAP)
• Employee wellbeing support including Mental Health First Aiders
• Employee Recognition scheme

So if you have a passion for greeting cards and celebrations products and would love to be part of a talented team, you’re in the right place!