Senior Data Analyst & Team Lead - Ecommerce Analytics

Digital Waffle; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Digital Waffle, a leading ecommerce retailer, seeks a Senior Data Analyst to drive smarter, more commercially focused decision-making. This hands-on role includes building data models, dashboards and reporting systems while leading a small team.

You will mentor analysts, turn large datasets into actionable insights, manage cross-functional analytics projects, and ensure reporting quality across the business, in a hybrid Hereford environment with on-site days.

Qualifications

• Strong commercial experience within data analytics or business intelligence.
• Excellent SQL skills with experience querying large-scale datasets.
• Experience building dashboards, databases and reporting solutions.
• Proven ability to translate data into actionable commercial insight.
• Experience mentoring or managing junior analysts.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Good commercial awareness and the ability to understand wider business performance.
• Experience working with cloud data platforms and modern BI tools.
• Highly organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain complex data models, dashboards, reporting systems and automated analytics workflows.
• Lead and mentor a small team of Data Analysts, providing technical guidance and support.
• Turn large datasets into clear, actionable insights that improve commercial performance.
• Lead cross-functional analytics projects and help uncover opportunities for optimisation.
• Own the quality and consistency of reporting across the business.
• Manage incoming data requests, prioritise effectively and delegate work across the team.
• Improve BI tools, processes and reporting standards.
• Work closely with the Data Science Manager on the wider analytics and data roadmap.

Skills

SQL

Dashboards

Mentoring

Stakeholder mgmt

Cloud data

BI tools

Leadership

Communication

Tools

Looker

Google Analytics

Google Cloud Platform

Looker/GA

Job description

Digital Waffle, a leading ecommerce retailer, seeks a Senior Data Analyst to drive smarter, more commercially focused decision-making. This hands-on role includes building data models, dashboards and reporting systems while leading a small team.

You will mentor analysts, turn large datasets into actionable insights, manage cross-functional analytics projects, and ensure reporting quality across the business, in a hybrid Hereford environment with on-site days.