Data Insight Lead

Looking to work within a vibrant company, combining 25 years of industry expertise with ongoing investment in cutting edge technology to drive future success? Seeking a role where proactivity is welcomed, with scope to develop and grow?

Viking Europe has an exciting opportunity to join the growing team in our UK office in Milton Keynes. The role is a full time, permanent position offering an excellent salary and benefits package.

At Viking Europe, we provide Office Supplies, Services and Solutions to help our customers work better, whatever their workplace. Serving businesses across all industries and sizes, we offer a single source of the solutions and services our customers needto be more productive, including the latest technology, core office supplies, print and document services, business services, facilities products, furniture, and school essentials. Our established world-wide partnerships continue to give us global reach.

Only companies which place the customer centre stage, innovate to bring added value, and excel in terms of operational efficiency and technological capability will survive and thrive. At Viking, we operate as a trusted and reliable partner to help organisationswork more productively, improve efficiencies, reduce cost and increase sustainability - and we intend to thrive and continue to lead our industry for years to come.

**Role**

This is a new role and will be integral in delivering future growth by delivering insight to all aspects of the business. It will enable commercial data driven business decisions to be made for the now and the future. The business is data rich, but it needsharnessing and utilising. As an insight lead, you’ll use a suite of tools and technology to gather quantative and qualitative insights that will inform various transformation programmes, designed to maximise efficiency, increase sales, or reduce costs.

**Responsibilities**
- Objective and goal setting that is aligned with the organisational goals and the need for continuous improvement in data exploitation efficiencies
- Provide concise and actionable analysis and recommendations that will benefit the organisations future business
- Use data strategically, asking the right questions, using sophisticated ways to interrogate the data that will uncover high value insights, future strategies, and growth opportunities.
- Proactively suggest ways to visualise complex data sets, generating charts/tables that give insightful views of key business issues and opportunities
- Collaborate with different business units and BI teams across territories to ensure consistency of data analysis across the company. Work closely educating the team on methods of analysing this data and bring best practices to improve the quality of insightswe are delivering
- Accessing and leveraging key data and insight from our single data platform (SDP)
- Continually look to identify areas of improvement
- Development of high quality, clean and performant code that is built with operability built in by design

**Skills and experience**
- Significant delivery experience across key elements of the data analytics & data warehousing domains
- Experienced in working across different data sets, ranging from customer and stock data through to web analytics
- Strong participant and contributor to the creation, sharing and learning culture to provide insight and outcomes into the hands of our key decision makers.
- Statistical modelling / forecasting (AB Testing, DOE, Regression, etc.)
- Forecasting (ARIMA, ETS, etc.)
- Data Mining (Bayes, CART, Clustering, etc.)
- Databases (one or multiple): Synapse, Big Query, Redshift, SQL, Oracle, Hadoop, etc.
- Languages (one or multiple): SQL, SAS, Python, R, Java, Octave, etc.
- Visualisation (one or multiple): SAS Visual Analytics, Power BI, Tableau, Spotfire, Qlik, Looker
- Strong desire to constantly deliver value to the business
- Ability to absorb new ideas and concepts quickly
- Ability to present ideas clearly and concisely
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to create a culture of collaboration, sharing and learning

We provide an excellent benefits scheme, generous holidays and free onsite parking.

Want to join our team? If you feel you have the skills and experience required for the role, please click 'Apply’ today and take your next step towards a career with Viking