Data Platform Analyst

What We Can Offer You

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.

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.

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.

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.