Business Improvement & Retail Analyst

UK Greetings Careers; Kirklees; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading greeting card company in the United Kingdom is seeking a data-driven Analyst to transform complex data into commercial insights. The successful candidate will be responsible for managing retail performance metrics, utilizing BI tools like Tableau and Alteryx, and presenting findings to stakeholders. This role offers a hybrid working model with flexible hours and numerous employee benefits, including enhanced family-friendly policies and professional development opportunities.

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

Qualifications

• Proven analytical experience with the ability to interpret, validate and challenge data.
• Experience in managing multiple priorities and delivering to deadlines.
• Curious, proactive, collaborative and highly organised.

Responsibilities

• Work with a major grocer handling customer demands and expectations.
• Deliver core KPIs across sales, stock intake, phasing, margin, sell-through and waste.
• Present insights and recommendations to internal teams and retail merchandising partners.

Skills

Analytical experience

Commercial understanding of merchandising

Experience in BI reporting

Confident communication

Collaborative and organised

Tools

Tableau

Alteryx

SQL

Advanced Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

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.

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.

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.

About UK Greetings

We help make the world a more thoughtful and caring place every single day with our greeting cards, gifts, dressings and party supplies products created for life’s big events, special occasions and those “saw‑this‑and‑thought‑of‑you” moments in life. As part of the American Greetings Corporation, we are the largest direct‑to‑retail publisher of greeting cards and social expression products in the UK, proud of our inclusive culture.

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!