Lead Content Data Analyst

RS Components; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering solutions company is seeking a Lead Content Data Analyst to drive data analysis within their Content and Digital Merchandising teams. The role is hybrid based in the UK. Responsibilities include developing KPI dashboards, collaborating with teams to solve issues, and providing insights to enhance content quality. Candidates should have proven experience in digital data analysis and strong proficiency in tools like SQL and Power BI. This position also offers various employee benefits including enhanced family-friendly policies.

Benefits

Annual performance bonus

Enhanced maternity and paternity leave

Private healthcare

Annual £500 for health consultation

Support for neurodiverse colleagues

Fertility support and coverage

Enhanced coverage for trans colleagues

Qualifications

• Proven experience in B2B or B2C digital data analysis.
• Strong proficiency in enterprise data tools.
• Experienced in applying statistical analysis to solve business challenges.

Responsibilities

• Develop KPI dashboards for teams.
• Collaborate with digital merchandisers to build solutions.
• Create a framework for measuring content quality.

Skills

B2B or B2C digital data analysis

Enterprise data tools: Snowflake, SQL, Python, R, Power BI, Adobe Analytics

Statistical analysis for business challenges

Data visualisation and storytelling

Understanding of the digital and ecommerce landscape

Knowledge of marketing channels

Identifying UX and CX opportunities

Job description

Lead Content Data Analyst
Permanent
Location: Hybrid (Corby)

RS Group is seeking a Lead Content Data Analyst to join our team on a permanent basis. In this role, you will drive data analysis and reporting across our Content and Digital Merchandising teams, bringing fresh ideas, leadership, and innovative techniques to support smarter decision-making and prioritisation. With significant investments in our enterprise data platforms, you will play a key role in transforming customer data into actionable insights, helping our digital merchandisers enhance content quality, optimise campaigns, and deliver measurable business impact across EMEA, APAC, and the Americas.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop KPI dashboards for Content and Digital Merchandising teams.
• Collaborate with digital merchandisers to understand customer challenges and use data to build solutions.
• Create a framework to measure content quality and its correlation to commercial performance.
• Build standardised and automated reports to support Digital Merchandising Quarterly Reviews.
• Provide insights to suppliers, enhancing the value proposition of our Supplier Partner Programs.
• Integrate new customer data sources into merchandising reports using Customer Data Master, Customer Data Platform, and Voice of the Customer systems.
• Expand reporting and datasets to deliver insights across all global markets.
• Develop statistical models to demonstrate the value of Digital Merchandising initiatives.

About You

You are a data-driven leader with a passion for turning complex data into actionable insights. You thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and are comfortable influencing stakeholders across multiple business functions.

What you’ll bring:

• Proven experience in B2B or B2C digital data analysis.
• Strong proficiency in enterprise data tools: Snowflake, SQL, Python, R, Power BI, Adobe Analytics.
• Experienced in applying statistical analysis to solve business challenges.
• Skilled in data visualisation, effectively telling a story tailored to the audience.
• Deep understanding of the digital and ecommerce landscape, including KPIs, levers, and systems for driving performance.
• Strong knowledge of marketing channels and their impact on results.
• Experience proactively identifying opportunities to improve UX and CX.

Behavioural & Leadership Skills:

• Proven track record of delivering results and taking ownership of outcomes.
• Strong customer focus, influencing senior-level stakeholders with a flexible and culturally aware approach.
• Skilled in building relationships and influencing external agencies, suppliers, and senior management.
• Ability to influence cross-functional teams to achieve business goals.
• Self-starter with a can-do attitude, able to manage and prioritise workload independently.
• Demonstrates strong change management skills and encourages a ‘digital mindset’ across the organisation.
• Comfortable making independent decisions with limited information.

The extras you’ll get

At RS, as well as the usual employee benefits you’d expect from an FTSE listed company, including annual performance bonus, enhanced maternity and paternity leave, and private healthcare, in the UK&I, we’ve just introduced a number of new Family Friendly Policies including:

• Help people to take control of ongoing Health conditions such as diabetes or asthma with £500 a year available for monitoring and consultation
• Support for Neurodiverse colleagues and families with neurodiverse members with needs assessment, diagnosis, and post-diagnostic support for autism spectrum, ADHD, and Tourette’s syndrome
• Support for Women at different life stages from streamlined fertility support to diagnosis and monitoring of both endometriosis and menopause
• Helping our LGBTQ+ community through enhanced coverage for trans colleagues, including voice coaching, facial surgery and gender confirmation surgery
• Additions to Fertility coverage including IVF for lesbian couples and information/support around surrogacy and adoption for all.

We are RS

At RS we’ve been solving engineering problems for over 80 years: big ones, small ones, easy and difficult ones. We turn the ‘what ifs’ into the ‘why nots’, the impossible into the possible.

Our purpose? Making amazing happen for a better world.

We offer service and product solutions. We send out a parcel every 2 seconds, to over 130 countries. We provide over 700,000 in-stock and over 3 million unstocked products to more than 1.2 million customers.

We want people like you, as you are curious about things, you like doing things differently and also in a human way with empathy. Because that’s exactly how we partner with people – our customers, suppliers, colleagues and communities – to solve problems.

We’ll also invest in your development and wellbeing – because building a more diverse and inclusive culture, being ethical, responsible and committed to our Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) action plan is at the heart of everything we do.

Come and join us and we’ll help you to think big, do more and unleash your brilliance, so you do amazing things too.