📊 Data Analyst II (Contract)

Contract Type: Inside IR35
Start Date: August (fixed)
Duration: Maternity cover
Working Pattern: Hybrid (1 day per week preferred)

🌍 About the Role

We are looking for an experienced Data Analyst II to join a high-performing analytics function focused on customer and product analytics.

This role sits at mid-level and offers the opportunity to work closely with Product Managers, Engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders to solve complex business challenges through data.

You will own analytical work end-to-end, from defining problems through to delivering insights and recommendations that directly influence product and business decisions.

🚀 Key Responsibilities

• Own and deliver end-to-end analytics projects (problem definition → data → insight → recommendation)
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering teams to identify opportunities and solve business challenges
• Perform data extraction, transformation, and analysis across large and complex datasets
• Build and maintain automated data workflows and scalable analytical solutions
• Develop dashboards, reports, and visualisations to clearly communicate insights
• Analyse experimentation results (A/B and multivariate testing) and provide actionable recommendations
• Translate complex analysis into clear, business-friendly insights for stakeholders
• Ensure high standards of data quality, governance, and analytical rigour
• Support and mentor more junior analysts where required

🛠️ Essential Skills & Experience

Technical

• Strong experience with SQL (complex querying, data manipulation)
• Experience using Python for data analysis and automation
• Experience working with large datasets and modern data environments
• Proven experience building dashboards (Power BI, Tableau, or similar)
• Good understanding of data modelling and data quality principles

Analytics & Business

• Experience delivering insight-led analysis, not just reporting
• Strong understanding of:
  • A/B testing / experimentation concepts
  • Statistical thinking and interpreting results
• Ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions
• Experience working with customer or product data
• Strong commercial awareness and problem-solving ability

Stakeholder Management

• Proven experience working with:
  • Product teams
  • Engineering teams
  • Business stakeholders
• Ability to communicate complex insights clearly to non-technical audiences
• Comfortable working independently with minimal supervision

⭐ Desirable

• Experience working with Snowflake or cloud data platforms
• Exposure to Google Analytics / Adobe Analytics / similar tools
• Background in travel, e-commerce, or digital product environments
• Experience with PySpark or large-scale data processing
• Exposure to statistical modelling or machine learning concepts

👤 Candidate Profile

We're looking for someone who is:

• Hands-on and technically strong (SQL + Python)
• Able to own work independently from start to finish
• Comfortable influencing business and product decisions
• Strong communicator with stakeholder-facing experience
• Curious, analytical, and focused on solving real business problems with data

🎯 What You'll Get

• Opportunity to work in a product-led, data-driven environment
• High-impact role influencing customer-facing decisions
• Exposure to cross-functional teams and complex datasets
• A chance to take full ownership of analytical work

✅ If you're a hands-on Data Analyst who enjoys turning data into business impact - we'd love to hear from you.