Role Overview & Mandate
Executive Summary
About The RoleOur Data & Analytics team creates value for Morrisons by making sure we have the...
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About The Role
Our Data & Analytics team creates value for Morrisons by making sure we have the right data in the right place, providing access to data and insight through reporting tools (i.e. Qlik) and providing the capability to answer strategic questions using analytics and Data Science. As part of a fast paced retail environment, our data scientists work closely with both our wider data and analytics team and cross functionally across the organisation to help solve business problems, improve our performance and create value from our data.
The role will have the following accountabilities:
Champion data literacy across the organisation
Embody a “quick turn around” culture for any small requests that add value and enable data products to be shipped within one working days effort
Demonstrate a culture that enables value driven data product creation
Demonstrate a lean working culture where all efforts minimise waste, maximise efficiency and contribute to an improvement in EBITDA
Contribute towards the development of a 1-2 year data product roadmap ensuring all work is strategically aligned to our core priorities and any work passed to our development partners is clearly defined and linked to the business process.
Use our state-of-the-art data facilities in GCP to extract, transform and load data (ETL) for the data science team
About The Company
Our modern Head Office on the edge of Bradford is home to our different support teams from tech, marketing and finance to HR, trading and supply chain.
Alive with activity, this is where decisions are made and our corporate teams make sure everything runs smoothly. Here, you’ll find comfy breakout areas, a coffee shop, newsagents and subsidised restaurant all within commuting distance of Leeds, Manchester and the Yorkshire Dales - always with free parking.
We host regular seasonal events and you’ll often find our suppliers on site sharing details of their latest product. We’re also committed to fundraising for our current charity partner.
Our business is fast paced and ever changing, as such we’ve lots of opportunities for you to play your part in our success. We’d love to meet you…
Some of the benefits you can expect as follows;
- 15% colleague discount in our stores and online, plus an additional 10% card for a friend or family member
Annual bonus scheme
Generous holiday entitlement
Four day working week with flexible working hours
Company pension contributions
Private healthcare
Perks with over 850 retailers
- Free parking onsite
About You
Skills, Qualifications and Experience
As a Technology Specialist: Data Science, you will have experience of:
Solving business problems through data
Storytelling and the ability to bring data to life
Championing data literacy
Challenging the status quo & being inquisitive
Gathering, challenging and refining stakeholder requirements
Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
Key Skills
Excellent SQL skills and the ability to extract data from data marts in an accurate and efficient manner
Experience of programming - preferably in Python or R - but any kind of programming experience e.g. Javascript, VBA, Java is acceptable
Creating data visualisations and possessing an understanding of how to display data in an effective and engaging way and tell stories with the data
The ability to mentor other members of the team - in particular technical concepts such as programming, whilst also being eager and enthusiastic about learning new skills from more experienced members of the team
