Data Analyst, Consulting (Fixed-Term)

We are looking to hire a Data Analyst with experience in consulting to join our Data Analytics team in London on a fixed-term basis to cover the maternity leave of an existing employee.

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow. 

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.   

We are looking for a strategic, analytical and commercial individual to provide world class data analysis and collaborate strongly with our strategists and consultants. The Data Analyst must demonstrate expertise in fashion retail and consumer insights data analysis which they can combine to enhance and underpin the work that WGSN delivers. The successful candidate will work with Mindset consultants to analyse, present and deliver data that generate breakthrough insights for our clients. 

At WGSN we offer insights and inspiration from around the globe. We help our customers stay ahead and informed through trend forecasting and data science. The WGSN Data team is an exceptional mix of brilliant minds with diverse backgrounds in fashion, retail and consumer insights. We prioritise collaboration to extract meaningful insights from our datasets and help our stakeholders take actionable business decisions.

- Provide high quality and accurate analysis for WGSN‘s clients using a variety of proprietary and external data sets

- Responsibility for projects being delivered in brief, in a relevant, insightful and commercially successful manner with data integrity at the core Collaborate closely with clients and consultants to understand their business objectives, identify analytical needs, and deliver customised analysis that provides actionable recommendations. 

- Ability to effectively present and synthesize actionable insights that respond to clients’ needs and business questions

- Proactively suggest ways to visualise complex data sets, generating charts/tables that give insightful views of key business issues and opportunities.

- Ability to see beyond the numbers

- Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders in the business and data teams in region and across territories to ensure consistency of data analysis across the company

- Is confident to take an active and vocal role in team meetings, putting forward new ideas and suggestions for data integration  

- An ability to explain complex datasets clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders

- Ideally 2-3 years of experience in a data analyst role 

- Experience analysing fashion retail datasets e.g. assortment planning, demand forecasting

- Creative, commercial, resourceful, innovative & able to cope under pressure

- Strong communication and organisational skills with experience preparing and leading reports for clients as well as presenting them

- Excellent interpersonal skills comfortable to tackle work within a global team

- An analytical mind, with the ability to proactively distinguish between what is important and what is not, making the complex simple

- Experience with consumer survey analysis and social media data comprehension is beneficial

- Technical Experience with: Data Warehouses (one or multiple): Snowflake, SQL, BigQuery, etc

- Languages (one or multiple): SQL (must), Python/R (beneficial), etc.

- Visualisation: Tableau (beneficial)

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:  

- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days

- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance & Critical Illness 

- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme 

- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options  

- Great learning and development opportunities.

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.

We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.

The future is everything, it happens everywhere. WGSN is the world-leading forecaster because we track and analyse consumer behaviours, product innovation, design and creativity, everywhere.

We utilise our global resources and intelligence to research, source and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce our forecasts. Everything we do is focused on working with our customers to create a successful and positive tomorrow.

We source, review and assess quantitative and qualitative data to produce robust, actionable forecasts. To provide credible insights and design solutions for our clients, it is essential that rigour runs through everything we do.

An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.

Inclusive workforce 

We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.

Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.  

We offer a flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been—and will continue to be—actively encouraged here, but we do not offer full remote working. 

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.