About the role

As the BI & Data Lead you will be helping FGH on their Cloud Transformation Journey and own the Business Intelligence strategy, prioritisation, delivery, and operations within FGH. Your Primary responsibility will include accountability for the design and implementation of BI Services.  This includes selecting, blueprinting, gathering requirements, designing, and rolling out BI solutions to end users.

Role Responsibilities

• Develop the Business Intelligence function through managing the development of high quality, timely and accurate BI and analysis across all business functions to enable measured decision making and support the day-to-day operations for continued growth of the business
• Act as a consultant to internal business stakeholders, analysing their requirements and working with them to agree on the optimal way for insight to be presented (KPIs, visualisation, etc.)
• Deliver tactical and strategic reporting and business intelligence
• Ensure delivered solutions are fit for purpose, well-researched, tested, and governance checked.
• Building a Power Automate Flow to automate a business process
• Building a Power BI dashboard to provide actionable insights to a customer
• Building a Power Apps Portal to enable your customer to engage with their customers over the internet.
• To be committed to the fair treatment of customers at all times
• Ensure compliance with all applicable UK and local regulations, Company Policies and FCA Conduct Rules
• Demonstrate behaviours in line with our Company values
• To take reasonable care for the health and safety of yourself and other persons who may be affected by acts and omissions at work

About you

• Dynamics 365 Technology stack and environment
• Strong BI development experience, including data manipulation, analysis, and visualisation skills.
• Strong cloud data warehousing (AWS, GCP, Azure) and BI toolset (Tableau,  Power BI) experience
• Experience leading and mentoring others, alongside strong BI Development/ Data Engineering skills
• Experience with Azure ( Databricks, ADF, Synapse, Data Lakes) is preferable
• Experience in 365 Power Platform preferable
• Knowledge of improving Data Quality and Data Governance within organisations would be beneficial for this role
• Excellent ability to interpret data to provide insight and direction based on findings
• Strong ability to prioritise multiple tasks and work under pressure for senior people
• Strategic thinking: the ability to identify and create systemic solutions, taking into account likely future needs.
• Excellent communication and analytical skills: the ability to translate for non-technical audiences, interpret requirements, and create compelling analytical tools.
• A high level of precision and attention to detail.

Role is subject to credit and DBS checks

Why FGH?

Our staff enjoy competitive benefits including staff discount, generous annual leave, healthcare cash plan together with a vibrant, colourful, creative and flexible working atmosphere. With our competitive benefits, and supportive teams our staff enjoy helping us on our mission and benefit greatly from the challenges that come with working for a successful retailer.

About us

Freemans Grattan Holdings (FGH) is based in West Yorkshire and is part of the OTTO Group – one of the world's largest online retailers.

Home to familiar brands such as Freemans, Grattan and Kaleidoscope, we have over 100 years of experience. 

We're on a mission to help our customers live their best lives through a choice of quality basics, the brands they love and credible exclusive product supported by easy and rewarding ways to pay.

We offer excellent service and delivery seven days a week, with so much going for us - why not be part of the story.

We have over 600 UK employees working for us in various functions, including Marketing and Creative, Customer Experience, Warehousing and Logistics, Financial Services, Transformation, Buying and Merchandising, IT and Support Services. 

Our values of Resilience, Empathy, Ambition, Commitment, and Honesty underpin our vibrant and dynamic culture.

We're heading for some exciting and challenging places, so why not join us and be part of our vision to create a modern, digital retailer with powerful customer brands, exciting product and compelling financial services.