Senior MI Analyst

Job Description

Salary: £32,106 - £34,080 per annum (dependent on experience)

Shift: Monday to Wednesday 9am to 5pm, Thursday 9am to 4.45pm & Friday 9am to 5pm (36 hours per week)

Location: Radar Road, Leicester (with travel between sites)
Hybrid: 2 / 3 days per week onsite

As a Senior MI Analyst within the Incident Business Systems Team, supporting Senior Management, your role involves creating and enhancing new reporting and analysis using various systems to reduce customer detriment and business impact through swift and accurate analysis.

Additionally, you'll assist the Incident Manager in building and overseeing the reporting and data infrastructure for the Next Customer Service Online Operations across our contact centres.

What you'll be doing:

• Take ownership of report implementation from understanding and clarifying requirements through to development and implementation.
• Support project with expertise and knowledge of reporting systems advising of best practices and optimum set up of data structures.
• Create, analyse and then provide accurate management information/reporting and forecasting as required by the department/business on a daily/weekly/monthly and adhoc basis within the timescales agreed.
• Interpret and communicate factual and accurate findings, along with your recommendations for improvement to the management team.
• Pitch the tone of your audience and have the ability to communicate complex/technical information in layman's terms.
• Take initiative to seek new methods and present solutions to problems for management to consider.
• Create business models to continually assess the performance/costs of current suppliers and provide recommendations to assist with budgeting, cost control and future contracts.
• Produce and understand departmental KPI'S in line with Senior Management requirements.
• Act as an initial point of contact for other areas of the business in relation to contract and system queries.
• Act as a mentor and support the development of junior Analysts.
• Have a flexible approach to working hours in line with the business needs/requirements.

Who we're looking for:

• Previous experience at a senior or similar level.
• BI Reporting and Visualisation Tool knowledge/experience - Cognos, Power BI, Tableau, Looker etc.
• High level of SQL ability.
• Problem solving capabilities/critical thinking.
• High attention to detail.
• Experience of working with Contact Centre Metrics.
• Experience of change management.
• Experience in working with Microsoft Azure Platform eco-system (Azure data lake, Azure data factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, Data bricks, Power BI etc) would be highly desirable.
• Experience in Data Engineering for Data Quality, Data Lineage, Data Governance.
• Having knowledge and experience of SQL, Access, Business Objects and Power Pivots.

What's Next:

Press the apply button now to start your application. Once you have applied for the job, we will initially consider your skills and experience based on your application.

In accordance with Home Office guidance successful candidates will be required to evidence their right to work in the UK before commencement of employment. This role is not one we would typically consider for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route due to, for example, the relevant Home Office requirements on skills level, not being met. Candidates are therefore encouraged to consider their own right to work options without Next sponsorship.

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we're a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We're the UK's 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we're the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it's now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we've gone global!

About some of our Benefits

• 25% off most NEXT, MADE , Lipsy , Gap and Victoria's Secret products ( when purchased through NEXT)
• Quarterly bonuses
• Free parking on Next authorised sites
• Early VIP access to sale stock
• Access to fantastic discounts at our Staff Shops
• 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
• Restaurants with great food at amazing prices
• Hot deals and exclusive offers from over 3,500 retailers through our online benefits platform
• Access a digital GP and other free health and wellbeing services
• Financial Wellbeing - Save, track and enhance your financial wellbeing
• Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
• Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
• Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more

Conditions apply to all benefits. These benefits are discretionary and subject to change.

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on and leave a voicemail.

Job Info

• Job Identification 69993
• Job Category Customer Services