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Business Analytics Manager
Job summary
Location: Northampton
Work arrangement: Hybrid
Employment type: Full-time
Closing date: 27.11.2026
Job description
Location: Hybrid working based within commutable distance to either Bridgwater, Somerset or Northampton.
Are you a highly skilled data insights specialist with a passion for helping drive business change through incredible insights? In this high impact role, you will be collaborating widely with stakeholders and senior leaders across the business to help us disrupt the market and expedite our ambitious plans.
Role Purpose:
This is a pivotal, hands-on leadership role at the very heart of major insights and strategic decision-making. You will lead the Business Analytics Hub, working directly with key leaders across the entire organisation (including Commercial, Retail, CRM, Digital & Supply Chain) to provide insights, uncover hidden needs, and translate them into actionable strategies. Your mission is to elevate the Business Analytics hub to a cutting edge standard.
You will directly manage the analytics engineers and oversee the central analytics for Toolstation, collaborating closely with departmental analytics teams. This involves enabling business value through robust, reusable data products, providing excellent stakeholder management, and understanding business needs. You will translate these needs into high-quality data models and self-serve solutions, and oversee data consistency, tool usage, and impactful insights across the business. This strategic, product-oriented role is perfect for someone passionate about scalable analytics, data modelling, and cross-functional collaboration.
Key Responsibilities:
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Own and develop our transformation layer and business-facing semantic models to support reporting and self-serve analytics.
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Lead, mentor, and support analytics engineers, fostering a strong team culture and focus on delivery.
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Act as the central liaison between the data team and wider business units, helping translate needs into scalable data products.
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Collaborate with the central Travis Perkins data engineering team (managing core infrastructure: BigQuery, GCS) and our third-party Airflow partner to coordinate data pipeline development and maintenance.
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Drive consistent naming conventions, data definitions, and documentation to support data governance and discoverability.
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Contribute to and influence our data roadmap, ensuring alignment with business priorities.
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Data Owner and Continuous Improvement: Responsible for the quality of all data used by the Business Analytics team, requiring influence on key functions (including IT) to ensure source data quality. Constantly challenge the status quo and propose alternative solutions to drive efficiency and simplicity, focusing time on data analysis, not data production.
