Senior Data Analyst

The role

We are looking to hire a Senior Data Analyst to join our Consultative Data Analytics Team in London.

Working at WGSN

Together, we create tomorrow 

A career with WGSN is fast-paced, exciting and full of opportunities to grow and develop. We're a team of consumer and design trend forecasters, content creators, designers, data analysts, advisory consultants and much more, united by a common goal: to create tomorrow. 

WGSN's trusted consumer and design forecasts power outstanding product design, enabling our customers to create a better future. Our services cover consumer insights, beauty, consumer tech, fashion, interiors, lifestyle, food and drink forecasting, data analytics and expert advisory. If you are an expert in your field, we want to hear from you.   

Role overview 

We are looking for a strategic, intelligent and commercial individual to provide world class data analysis and collaborate strongly with our strategists and consultants. The Senior Data Analyst must demonstrate expertise in fashion retail and consumer insights data analysis which they can combine to enhance and underpin the work that WGSN delivers. The successful candidate will work with Mindset consultants to analyse, present and deliver data that generate breakthrough insights for our clients.

At WGSN we offer insights and inspiration from around the globe. We help our customers stay ahead and informed through trend forecasting and data science. The WGSN Data team is an exceptional mix of brilliant minds with diverse backgrounds in fashion, retail and consumer insights based in the UK, US and Asia. We prioritise collaboration to extract meaningful insights from our datasets and help our stakeholders take actionable business decisions.

Key accountabilities

• Provide high quality and accurate analysis for WGSN‘s clients using a variety of proprietary and external data sets 
• Responsibility for projects being delivered in brief, in a relevant, insightful and commercially successful manner with data integrity at the core
• Tackle the challenge of extracting business intelligence from large data sets. Ability to see beyond the numbers
• Collaborate closely with clients to understand their business objectives, identify analytical needs, and deliver customised analysis that provides actionable recommendations 
• Ability to effectively present and synthesize actionable insights that respond to clients’ needs and business questions
• Proactively suggest ways to visualise complex data sets, generating charts/tables that give insightful views of key business issues and opportunities
• Engage and collaborate with key stakeholders in the business and data teams in region and across territories to ensure consistency of data analysis across the company
• Is confident to take an active and vocal role in team meetings, putting forward new ideas and suggestions for data integration




This list is not exhaustive and there may be other activities you are required to deliver.

Skills, experience & qualifications required

• An ability to explain data clearly and concisely to internal and external stakeholders 3-5 years of experience in a data analyst role
• Experience analysing fashion retail datasets Creative, commercial, resourceful, innovative & able to cope under pressure
• Strong communication and organisational skills with experience preparing and leading reports for clients as well as presenting them
• Excellent interpersonal skills comfortable to tackle work within a global team
• Ability to analyse large amounts of data and pinpoint trends that will impact the market
• A person that gets things done and a problem solver
• An analytical mind, with the ability to distinguish between what is important and what is not, making the complex simple
• Curious, flexible and a strategic thinker with gravitas that can inspire their clients, peers and more junior colleagues
• Experience with consumer survey analysis and social media data comprehension is beneficial
• Technical Experience with: Data Warehouses (one or multiple): Snowflake, SQL, BigQuery, etc.
• Languages (one or multiple): SQL (must), Python/R (beneficial), Java, etc.
• Visualisation (one or multiple): Tableau, Looker, Power BI, etc.

What we offer

Our benefits and wellbeing package offers flexible benefits you can tailor to your own personal needs, including:  

- 25 days of holiday per year - with an option to buy/ sell up to 5 days

- Pension, Life Assurance and Income Protection Flexible benefits platform with options including Private Medical, Dental Insurance & Critical Illness 

- Employee assistance programme, season ticket loans and cycle to work scheme 

- Volunteering opportunities and charitable giving options  

- Great learning and development opportunities.

More about WGSN

WGSN is the global authority on consumer trend forecasting.

We help brands around the world create the right products at the right time for tomorrow’s consumer.

Our values 

We Are Everywhere

The future is everything, it happens everywhere. WGSN is the world-leading forecaster because we track and analyse consumer behaviours, product innovation, design and creativity, everywhere.

We Are Future Focused

We utilise our global resources and intelligence to research, source and analyse quantitative and qualitative data to produce our forecasts. Everything we do is focused on working with our customers to create a successful and positive tomorrow.

We Are Rigorous

We source, review and assess quantitative and qualitative data to produce robust, actionable forecasts. To provide credible insights and design solutions for our clients, it is essential that rigour runs through everything we do.

Our culture 

An inclusive culture is one of our key priorities. We want our people to truly be themselves and thrive. We love having a diverse team of people who bring new ideas, different strengths and perspectives & reflect the global audience we work with.

Inclusive workforce 

We are committed to supporting the environment and sustainability, including ensuring our pension plan defaults to sustainable options and striving to be net zero by 2030.  

Recognising great performance is a key part of our culture. Our Awards schemes recognise and reward the brilliant achievements of our people.  

We offer a flexible working environment with a wide range of flexible, hybrid and agile working arrangements. Conversations about flexible working have always been—and will continue to be—actively encouraged here, but we do not offer full remote working. 

We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable during the process, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.

A Note for Recruiters 

Thank you so much for your interest in working with us at  WGSN!   Our internal Talent Acquisition team takes care of all our recruitment efforts. When we need some extra help, we partner with agencies on our Preferred Supplier List (PSL) that truly understand our business, culture and ways of working together.  Since we focus on these established partnerships, we’re unable to respond to unsolicited contacts or CVs from outside our PSL. But don’t worry! If we decide to explore new partnerships, we’ll be sure to reach out.