Retail Analyst

1034 LEGO Company Limited; London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Retail Analyst to elevate their global franchising business. In this pivotal role, you will leverage data analytics to drive informed decision-making, enhancing the retail experience across a network of branded stores. You will collaborate with various teams to analyze performance data, develop insights, and support strategic initiatives that foster growth and efficiency. This role offers the chance to make a significant impact while working in a dynamic environment that values creativity and innovation. Join a team dedicated to inspiring the builders of tomorrow and help shape the future of retail.

Benefits

Enhanced Family Care Leave

Life and Disability Insurance

Wellbeing Resources

Generous Colleague Discount

Bonus Scheme

Hybrid Work Policy

Qualifications

• Experience in retail or franchise sales with understanding of merchandising.
• Ability to analyze and interpret store performance data effectively.

Responsibilities

• Analyze store performance data to inform network decisions.
• Collaborate with teams to optimize retail strategies and solutions.

Skills

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Retail Analytics

Commercial Awareness

Project Management

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field

Tools

Microsoft Excel

QGIS

ArcGIS

Alteryx

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Do you want to play a meaningful role in elevating our global franchising business, making better decisions with data and analytics at the heart of everything we do?

LEGO Certified Stores (LCS) are fully branded LEGO Stores owned & operated by our global network of Partners and will number 1,000 stores by the end of 2026.

Join our growing team as a Retail Analyst and help build critical retail capabilities, delivering on the ambition of making LEGO Branded Stores the pinnacle shopping and brand experience for our consumers.

Core Responsibilities

As a Retail Analyst within the Branded Channels Team, you will play an important role in ensuring that Analytics & Insight become the bedrock for decision making, using our data to drive faster and better decisions that will enable sustainable growth for Partner Channels.

You will collaborate with our Location Planning teams, global Analytics & Insights functions, and Channel Leads worldwide, delivering insights to support critical store network decisions. In this commercial role, you will analyse various data points related to store performance and provide the right information to the right people, when needed. This will empower them to focus on key performance levers that drive continuous improvements in our in-store commercial performance.

You will support the development, facilitation and successful implementation of the Store Location Planning Model, continuously improving our data integrity and solutions to ensure relevance and efficiency. This entails:

1. Working with Retail Development Teams to analyse and interpret store performance data; highlight key trends and understand commercial implications.
2. Provide insights that will inform store network decisions, e.g sales and profitability thresholds, identify key drivers of performance.
3. Support Branded Channel Teams globally to make better informed data led decisions. e.g. trend analysis, performance measurement, campaign tracking.
4. Manage defined set of performance dashboards, liaising with Analytics & Insight team to optimize relevant data sets.
5. Supporting key business priorities such as Store Portfolio Segmentation, Trade Investments, and Store Estate Optimisations to drive strategic decision making across all branded channels.
6. Developing reporting solutions and supporting the ingestion and sharing of key performance metrics to find opportunities and aid sales growth.
7. Support the commercial strategy process and global branded channel alignment.

Play your part in our team succeeding

Working independently and across all Regions and many internal functions, the successful candidate needs to possess excellent stakeholder management skills.

As Retail Analyst, you will play a key role in further strengthening the Value Proposition towards our Partners. By building a strong understanding of our entire branded retail business, you will help drive critical improvement in close collaboration with key collaborators from right across our Commercial Organisation.

Do you have what it takes?

The successful candidate comes with experience in retail or franchise sales with proven understanding of merchandising, finance, logistics, and store operations. Furthermore, you come with:

1. Ability to analyse and interpret store performance data; highlight key trends and understand commercial implications.
2. Highly proficient in Microsoft Excel, with a strong analytical capability and the ability to summarise complex data in a clear and concise way.
3. Experience using or familiarity with spatial and BI tools such as QGIS, ArcGIS, Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI.
4. Proven experience in retail analytics dealing with store performance and manipulating data to develop compelling arguments.
5. Relevant retail industry sector knowledge or experience of working in a consultancy supporting retailers.
6. Understanding of retail location planning techniques and analysis; statistical models / spatial models / sales transfer (cannibalisation) modelling.
7. Strong collaborative & project management skills that enable you to support numerous tasks and projects simultaneously.
8. A commercial approach with quantitative and analytical skills allowing you to extract insights and meaningful conclusions from complex business problems.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What’s in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

1. Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
2. Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
3. Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
4. Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
5. Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
6. Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (e.g. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.

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About Us

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. Our founder Ole Kirk Kristiansen made his first wooden toy in 1932. He persevered against the odds until his business was a success. Constantly innovating, never compromising. Building, rebuilding, and striving for the best. It is this resilience and permanent sense of renewal that drives us forward. We are never still. We will always be creating, inventing, and having fun. Build your career brick by brick and play your part in continuing our mission to “inspire and develop the builders of tomorrow.”