Stark Building Materials is investing significantly in transforming how data is accessed, understood, and used across the business. We are on a journey from fragmented, reactive reporting toward a modern, insight-led organisation powered by proactive and predictive analytics.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner with the business to define and deliver the Insights and Analytics strategy and roadmap for STARK UK in collaboration with the Head of Insights and Analytics
- Transition the organisation from reactive reporting to proactive and predictive analytics; repeatedly assuring executive stakeholders that the investment in insights is value‑add
- Create a demand log for new and value‑add data sets in collaboration with the Data Engineering team and analytics team members with specific use cases identified
- Investigate innovative approaches to accessing and creating insights and analytics (e.g. natural language querying, power‑automate, dashboard orchestration and personalisation)
High Value, Market‑Leading Analytics capability
- Identify high‑value use cases for advanced analytics, supporting the business case development to take ideas from concept to delivery, testing and embedding within the user community
- Guide Stark UK in introducing and establishing self‑serve analytics, proposing appropriate tooling for end users.
- Develop personalised and sustainable data products e.g. selectable executive‑level KPIs that support individual decision making, dashboards which render different visualisations according to individual user preference
Team Management
- Collaborate with Head of Insights and Analytics to develop team ways of working for a team based across two hub locations (Coventry and Huddersfield)
- Lead, coach and develop a team of data analysts, fostering a high performance and insight driven culture
- Provide training opportunities to data analyst team, empowering them to develop leading analytics products within their areas of expertise e.g. marketing, supply chain, logistics, dynamic pricing
Business as Usual
- Drive consistency, quality, and governance across all analytics outputs; assuring that principles of dashboard design are maintained and analytics outputs are trusted.
- Champion best practices in BI development, data storytelling, and stakeholder engagement within the team and across the wider business
- Establish and evolve an Analytics Centre of Excellence, defining standards for reporting and insight generation across Stark UK
- Embed a data‑led decision‑making culture across the business
- Set performance objectives and act as line manager for 3 to 4 analysts
What Success Looks Like
- A high performing analytics team partnered closely with key stakeholders and functions across the business
- You and the team producing clear, actionable insights and dashboards that drive measurable value
- Well established Centre of Excellence with clear standards and governance, recognised across the whole business
- Clear trust in insights and reporting produced by the team
- Tangible improvements in commercial performance driven by data‑led decisions
- A shift from reactive reporting to proactive and predictive insight generation
Skills & Experience Required
- Strong experience in data analytics, BI, or commercial analytics roles, with proven leadership responsibility
- Demonstrated experience building and leading analytics teams or functions, including embedding new ways of working
- Expertise with SQL, Power BI and Databricks
- Proven ability to translate business problems into analytical solutions and to evidence the value that those solutions provide
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including at senior levels
- Experience with predictive analytical methodologies
Desirable
- Experience working with large‑scale data environments or data transformations
- Familiarity with tools such as Phocas, Azure Synapse, or Python
- Experience in retail, distribution, or building materials sectors
Why Join?
- Play a leading role in shaping the future of analytics at Stark UK as we begin our journey into the AI and automation era of data, investing in new platforms and capabilities
- Lead and develop a function with significant influence on commercial levers and organisation wide performance
- Opportunity to create lasting impact across varied brands (Jewson, Minster, Frazer, …) and business units (UK, Germany, Nordics)
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