Senior Data Analyst - Merch

Aqilea (formerly Soltia); Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Aqilea is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to join the data & analytics team in London. You will drive data-driven decision-making across sales, merchandising and commercial functions by turning data into actionable insights that support business objectives.

You will own the end-to-end analysis process, write advanced SQL queries, and collaborate with stakeholders to define KPIs and OKRs. Proficiency in Power BI, BigQuery and Excel will be essential to turn complex data into clear recommendations.

Qualifications

• Proven several years of experience as either as Data Analyst, Product/Business Analyst or similar.
• Proven experience from sales, commercial, &/or merchandising business domain is must
• Have strong business sense and business interest with the ability of making sound interpretations of data and other information.
• Have excellent communication skills and are skilled in translating and explaining complex data analysis to non-technical and/or senior stakeholders.
• Have hands-on working experience writing advanced SQL queries to extract, prep, validate, and analyse large data sets.
• Have expert experience in Analytical tools i.e. powerBI
• Have previous working experience or comfortable working cloud platform data analytics i.e. GCP – big query
• Have skills in Microsoft excel functions such as power pivot, power query. Tabular Editor, DAX etc.
• Are prestige less and enjoy collaborating with others to solve problems.
• Are fluent in English

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify strategic challenges where decision support anchored in data is needed.
• Drive data-driven decision making in your initiative/product team by turning data into insights and providing clear, data-driven recommendations.
• Apply advanced analytics methods and tools to model, execute and follow up initiatives from idea to industrialization.
• Own the full analysis process from problem and scope definition to data extraction, cleaning, analysis, visualization, recommendations, and presenting results.
• Turn business challenges into structured data analysis; define and set up measurable KPIs and OKRs and maintain their visualization for value reporting.
• Act as the data analytics expert in cross-functional teams and collaborate with business stakeholders to solve business challenges using data analytics.
• Work on a broad variety of business challenges with a wide range of business stakeholders (sales, commercial, merchandising, etc.).
• Participate in the wider analytics community across the group.

Skills

SQL

Business sense

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Power BI

Google BigQuery

Excel

Job description

Role: Senior Data Analyst - Merch
Competence level: Senior
Start date: 2026-12-01
End date: 2027-05-31
Extension option: Yes
Scope: 100%
Location: London
Remote work: Not stated
Language: English
Application deadline: 2026-11-08
Number of consultants: 1
Security clearance: No

About the assignment

We are looking for a Senior Data Analyst to join our data & analytics team. You will drive data-driven decision‑making across business functions by identifying strategic challenges, conducting in‑depth analysis and collaborating with stakeholders to turn data into actionable insights that support business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Proactively identify strategic challenges where decision support anchored in data is needed.
• Drive data‑driven decision making in your initiative/product team by turning data into insights and providing clear, data‑driven recommendations.
• Apply advanced analytics methods and tools to model, execute and follow up initiatives from idea to industrialization.
• Own the full analysis process from problem and scope definition to data extraction, cleaning, analysis, visualization, recommendations, and presenting results.
• Turn business challenges into structured data analysis; define and set up measurable KPIs and OKRs and maintain their visualization for value reporting.
• Act as the data analytics expert in cross‑functional teams and collaborate with business stakeholders to solve business challenges using data analytics.
• Work on a broad variety of business challenges with a wide range of business stakeholders (sales, commercial, merchandising, etc.).
• Participate in the wider analytics community across the group.

Requirements

Mandatory

• Proven several years of experience as either as Data Analyst, Product/Business Analyst or similar
• Proven experience from sales, commercial, &/or merchandising business domain is must
• Have strong business sense and business interest with the ability of making sound interpretations of data and other information.
• Have excellent communication skills and are skilled in translating and explaining complex data analysis to non‑technical and/or senior stakeholders.
• Have hands‑on working experience writing advanced SQL queries to extract, prep, validate, and analyse large data sets.
• Have expert experience in Analytical tools i.e. powerBI
• Have previous working experience or comfortable working cloud platform data analytics i.e. GCP – big query
• Have skills in Microsoft excel functions such as power pivot, power query. Tabular Editor, DAX etc.
• Are prestige less and enjoy collaborating with others to solve problems.
• Are fluent in English