Data Analyst (Food & Drink)

We are looking to hire a Data Analyst (Food & Drink) to join our Data  team in London.

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, intelligent and commercial individual to provide world class data analysis for the growing Food & Drink category. The Data Analyst must demonstrate an understanding in the Food & Drink industry and data analysis, which they can combine to enhance and underpin the work that the Content team delivers.

The successful candidate will work with our Content teams to analyse data and aid in the generation of breakthrough insight and trends for the different products we produce. A critical component to this role will be able to work with both WGSN’s and IWSR’s, as well as third-party data sets, and use those to spot underlying signals.

If you’re passionate about consumer insights, Food & Drink and sustainability this is a great place to be, giving you the opportunity to work with the world's most creative trend experts, analysts, editors, account managers, marketers, customer service experts and much more in a meritocratic, high-performing company.

WGSN has recently acquired IWSR, a leading global data and insights provider for the beverage alcohol industry. It tracks global consumption volume and value, consumer behaviour, and brand performance across a wide range of markets, with its data used by most of the world's largest beverage companies for competitive analysis and planning.

This is an exciting time to be joining the business. The synergy with IWSR consolidates WGSN’s position as leader offering market analysis, trends, and forecasting to help Food & Drink companies make strategic decisions. 

​​The foundation of WGSN is our passionate experts. WGSN seeks talent globally to work within a business that offers a unique blend of specialist problem solvers, data analysts and innovative thinkers who put trends and data together to provide the answers to create tomorrow.

- Provide high quality and accurate analysis for WGSN‘s content, focused on Food & Drink, Sustainability, and Consumer insights, key trends and drivers.

- Offer editors insight on past and future trends, and identify growth opportunities.

- Extract business intelligence from large data sets and create compelling narratives.

- Conduct research and deliver analysis with actionable recommendations for clients.

- Proactively suggest and generate visualisations (charts/tables) for complex data.

- Collaborate with data teams across territories to ensure consistency of data analysis between WGSN and IWSR.

- Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing between WGSN and IWSR.

- Contribute to the creation, sharing, and learning culture for the global Editorial team.

- Engage and collaborate with key business stakeholders and data teams.

- Be proactive in documenting processes, capturing tasks in Jira, and delivering reusable code and datasets.

- Be accountable for personal objectives and designated KPIs, meeting deadlines and editorial guidelines.

- Take an active and vocal role in team meetings, suggesting new ideas for data integration.

- Ensure projects are delivered in brief, insightful, commercially successful, and with data integrity.

- Work closely with the Sustainability Board, providing data analyses for regular bulletins.

- An ability to explain data clearly and concisely, whilst telling a compelling story.

- Experience in the food & drink industry is essential.

- Experience in sustainability and working with beverage depletion/shipment data is a strong advantage.

- At least 2-3 years of prior experience in a data analyst role.

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

- Ability to analyse large amounts of data and pinpoint trends that will impact the market

- A person that gets things done and a problem solver.

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

- Curious, flexible and a strategic thinker with gravitas that can inspire their clients, peers and more junior colleagues.

- Strong communication and organisational skills

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

Technical experience with:

- Data Warehouses (multiple): Snowflake, SQL, BigQuery, DataBricks, etc.

- Languages: SQL (must), Python (must), dbt (desireable), etc.

- Version control: git (GitHub)

- AI coding tools: Codex (ChatGPT), Co-pilot, Cursor, etc.

- Visualisation (one or multiple): Tableau, Looker, Power BI, etc.

Beneficial to have experience with:

- Statistical modelling / forecasting (Regression, DOE, AB Testing)

- Sprint Planning/Development using JIRA

- Unit testing and data quality monitoring

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.