Job Description

We are looking for an eCommerce Data Analyst to join our International eCommerce Third Parties team, to be at the forefront of our global growth!Based at NEXT Head Office in Leicestershire!

The Role:

The International eCommerce Trading team fuels global growth by managing and optimising online product sales across 72 international markets.

Within this, the Third Parties team help connect NEXT with other large selling platforms such as Zalando and La Redoute to sell thousands of products. These platforms delivered strong growth for Next last year and to continue to support this growth we need ever improving data points and manipulation.

As an eCommerce Data Analyst, you will be the heart of our third party team, turning data from our partners into powerful insights and clearing the path for successful new launches. Your natural curiosity and commercial business sense will allow you to master new information quickly, helping you focus on what truly matters to our customers. By combining your passion for new technology like AI with a talent for building relationships across the company, you will lead the charge in using data to grow the business and find creative ways to solve everyday challenges.

What You’ll Take On:

• Be the knowledge centre of all available product and sales related data available to Third Parties.
• Support the creation of partner dashboards conveying key partner information.
• Deal with new partner data requirements.
• Problem solve issues that cause items to be offline using data.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to detect, predict, and prevent product errors and speed up time to online.
• Build reports and visualisations for wider team and business visibility.
• Communicate analysis to the wider team, share knowledge and understanding.
• Build, maintain and grow relationships with all relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Explore the latest technologies available and select the right tools for the job.
• Seek opportunities to continually modernise the way we work.

What You’ll Bring:

• Proven experience as a data analyst, specifically with the ability to ingest external data and map internal data to facilitate successful third party partner launches.
• Hands on experience with Databricks and Power BI to enable seamless collaboration with cross functional data teams.
• A strong commercial background with the ability to distinguish business critical data.
• A keen interest in AI and its application in solving complex data sharing and integration challenges.
• An inquisitive nature that allows you to master new data structures quickly and easily.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to network business wide and champion the growth and use of data across the organisation.
• Degree level education with prior experience in a dedicated data related role.
• A self-motivated, highly organised problem solver with a meticulous eye for detail and the adaptability to tackle evolving challenges.

So if you’ve got experience in this field, are a data driven analyst with a commercial mindset, have strong experience working with Databricks, Power BI and different AI tools and are looking for the next challenge, this is the role for you!

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 44,000 people across the Next group. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 450 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 80 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!