Senior BI Analyst

Vacancy Information

We are a team of bright, creative, talented people who are looking for a Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Analyst to join our team.  If you are analytically minded, aren’t afraid to challenge the status quo and love all things data then you could be who we are looking for.  The Senior BI Analyst is a key member in our BI leadership team.  The role is business focussed so you will not only get to work on the cutting edge of technology in our Azure and Power BI stack but you will get to know and understand Greggs ‘under the covers’. 

This is a permanent, full time position based at Greggs House / Innovate House in Newcastle upon Tyne. 

We can offer you:

• 25 days (5 weeks) annual leave, pro-rated, increasing with service (in addition to bank holidays), plus 1 additional floating day

• Management Bonus Scheme which is worth up to 12.5% of your salary

• Profit share: We want everyone to share in the success of the business, so we distribute 10% of our profits to all our employees who have at least 6-month service, or more, each year

• Private Medical Insurance which is free for you and subsidised for your dependants

• Permanent Health Insurance which is a replacement income scheme

• You will automatically join our Greggs pension scheme which is a fantastic way to save for your retirement and allows you to benefit from employer contributions and tax advantages

• Defined contribution management pension scheme

• Death in service benefit which provides a lump-sum payment equal to 4 times your year’s salary

• Colleague discount, up to 50% off our own-produced products

• Share save schemes that let you buy discounted Greggs shares, by saving a set amount of money over a fixed time, to have an even bigger share of our profits

• Career progression and learning and development

• Employee Assistance Programme; A free, confidential helpline, offering advice and support with financial, relationship, work-related and wellbeing issues, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Including a mobile app providing a range of wellness content on physical, mental, social, and financial wellbeing

• Perks and savings, such as digital gift card discounts, online cashback, in-store and online coupons and lifestyle offers

• Cycle to Work scheme

• A company who cares about our communities; the environment and being a better business! Click here to read about The Greggs Pledge

• Colleague Networks – internal groups where colleagues and their allies can share their own experiences, offer feedback on the way we do things at Greggs, and provide support to one another

What you'll do

Reporting to the BI Service Lead, the role will be responsible for delivering and supporting data models and insights using the Power BI toolset, championing the BI strategy throughout Greggs and striving for a quality service delivery. 

• Leading, developing and mentoring a team of BI Analysts

• Working closely with business leaders, analysing the business insights needs, understand them and turn them into a powerful story told through engaging visuals in Power BI

• Designing and leading business and technical workshops to drive out insight requirements

• Keeping abreast of insight trends in our market, future BI trends and technology changes (such as Power BI roadmaps), feeding in to the wider Greggs BI roadmap

• Translating business requirements to technical designs including data modelling solutions, working closely with the data platform engineers, testers, architects and MDM

• Designing and delivering training sessions across the business to support the effective role out of Power BI

• Designing effective layouts using themes and report grids, working closely with our UX Designers and standards

• Utilizing the navigation features in Power BI (e.g. bookmarks, drill-throughs) to guide users through a compelling data-driven story

• Working with the testing team to manage the processes around SIT and UAT, resolving any defects identified

• Publishing reports via the Power BI service, managing them through distribution of apps and monitoring usage/data refreshes/security access

About you

You are passionate about insights and data, have an inquisitive mind and want to be part of a high performing team. You understand the value of data to a business and the competitive advantage it can bring when used in the right way. You want to push the business forward to deliver best in class BI solutions.  

You will fit right into this role if you:

• Can demonstrate excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail

• Enjoy being part of a hard-working team, sharing the same end goal, and celebrating results together

• Are supportive of an inclusive culture – recognising and valuing that difference is good

• Want to develop and are ready to work alongside some great people and have lots of fun on your Greggs journey!

Essential Skills:

• Experience of mentoring and developing people

• 3 + years working in Power BI and other visualisation tools  

• 3 + years experience of designing conceptual and logical data models 

• Proficient in DAX calculations

• Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring (SQL) as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases

• Ability to take business customer requirements, understand them and turn them into a powerful story told through engaging visuals in Power BI  

• Confident communicating with stakeholders of all levels including the ability to advise, train and support our business customers where necessary  

• Experience of working in dynamic business environments, and managing delivery of multiple initiatives

• The ability to self-start with a proactive approach to daily tasks, overcoming problems and maintaining momentum

• Microsoft certification desired

• Microsoft Azure DevOps experience desired

• Tabular Editor experience desired

About Greggs

Here at Greggs, we love what we do, and we have fun! What makes Greggs so special is our culture – the way we are, the way we behave and the way we support each other. We're hard-working, but above all else we're family; and it doesn't matter who you are, where you're from or what your favourite bake is, we’d love you to join us!   We want everyone to feel welcome at Greggs and our colleagues to be able to be themselves at work, whatever their background, preferences, or views.