William Grant & Sons
Data Platform Analyst
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Data Platform Analyst
We are looking for a Data Platform Analyst to join our Business Intelligence team and play a pivotal role in driving the organisation’s data-driven agenda. This position is central to our data strategy, helping to shape scalable, high-quality BI solutions that support decision-making across the business.
What We Can Offer You
- Competitive salary and benefits designed to promote financial wellbeing
- Bonus plan eligibility
- Generous holiday entitlement with the option to 'buy' or'sell' additional days
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service)
- Defined contribution pension plan with company contributions
- Employee Assistance Programme offering support on various matters
- Life Assurance cover of eight times your annual basic salary
- Product allocation from our portfolio of brands
- Cycle to Work scheme for bike purchase with savings
- Opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for charity support
- Learning resources to support personal and professional development
Main Responsibilities
- Apply strong analytical and problem-solving skills to interpret complex data challenges.
- Communicate technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Work effectively as a self-starter, contributing within a team or independently with minimal supervision.
- Translate business requirements into clear technical specifications and identify data gaps and risks.
- Manage competing priorities and deliver high-quality work to tight deadlines.
- Utilise hands-on experience with the Microsoft Power Platform and BI stack to support delivery.
- Leverage T-SQL skills to analyse and manipulate data.
- Support the governance, performance, and scalability of our enterprise-level Power BI implementation.
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Our Ideal Candidate
You will be someone who can confidently translate business reporting needs into robust technical requirements, identifying data gaps, risks, and process inefficiencies along the way.
You’ll be comfortable communicating findings to business stakeholders and collaborating closely with development teams to ensure solutions are accurate, scalable, and aligned to organisational goals.
This Role Would Suit
- A Developer looking to broaden their business-facing skills
- A Business Analyst seeking to deepen their technical knowledge
- A Data Analyst wanting to expand into broader BI and solution-design responsibilities
- Individuals with experience working within enterprise-scale BI and SQL environments.
- Knowledge of Database Administration, Software Development Lifecycles, Technical Infrastructure, and IT Service Management practices.
- Exposure to financial reporting methodologies.
- Familiarity with FMCG supply-chain concepts.
- A solid understanding of data warehousing principles and design.
If you’re passionate about turning complex data into meaningful insights and contributing to an organisation’s BI maturity, we’d love to hear from you.
About William Grant & Sons
A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS
William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.
We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.
OUR VISION
At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience, and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.
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OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY
Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.
INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS
Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive.
We want to make sure that all applicants are treated equally. To support this we will anonymise all applications during the screening stage. Details such as name, dates, and educational establishments will only be visible to the recruitment team and hiring leader once an applicant is invited to interview, these details are hidden during the screening stage. To be able to anonymise applications they all need to be in the same format. You can upload a CV but we would also ask you to complete an application form – your CV will not be visible during screening. We hope you agree that this is good use of your time to help ensure a fair recruitment process.
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