Retail Business Analyst - London

FDM is a global business and technology consultancy seeking a Retail Business Analyst to work for our client within the public sector. This is initially a 3-month contract with the potential to extend and will be a hybrid role that will be based in London.

Working with primarily fashion retailers and international brands you will assist our client’s retail clients in the areas of design and product development, buying and merchandising and supply chain management. Using your industry background combined with the client’s proven methodologies, you will help clients to achieve agreed goals. You will be providing practical solutions for clients that have measurable and lasting results.

Responsibilities

• Produce high quality deliverables that assist clients in delivering business improvements
• Support team members and clients in organising, controlling, and structuring plans, activities, ownership, and deliverables
• Building honest and credible relationships with client executive, project sponsorship, teams, and users
• Build industry, competitive and company analyses (strategic, financial, operational) as well as market research for benchmarking
• Capture analysis and documentation of business capabilities about operations, processes, people, and technology to develop solutions
• Assist in presenting information, findings, insights, and recommendations to executives
• Build client profiles and org charts (market, model, channels, etc)
• Prepare reports, presentations, and insights based on client interviews, workshops, and meetings
• Organise research materials; creating an audit trail; and documenting assumptions
• Assist in the running of process and requirements workshops

• At least five years’ experience as a business analyst in a retailer/brand and/or retail consultancy
• Strong awareness of the challenges of merchandising, pricing, product design, product development, supply management and/or business change in a global and/or multi-channel business
• Understands primary systems and high-level systems architecture used in retail
• Outstanding written and oral communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate complex problems or solutions in a way in which they are quickly understood
• Good analytical skills and highly confident in tools such as Excel and PowerPoint
• Able to work under minimum oversight, be self-motivated, and engage peers and senior consultants as needed
• Able to work well in diverse multi-cultural team environments
• Strong organisational, prioritisation, and time management skills
• Experience of working with a major software implementation
• Experience or understanding of retail merchandising/analytics and product development processes
• Ability to approach problems in methodical and logical manner
• Successful retail career within the key functions of merchandising, buying, supply chain or IT
• Major apparel Brand or vertical retailer background

Why join us?

• Career coaching and access to upskilling throughout your entire FDM career
• Initial upskilling pre-assignment that has been accredited by TechSkills
• Assignments with global companies and opportunities to work abroad
• Opportunity to obtain certifications from Microsoft, Salesforce, Cisco and more
• Access to the Buy As You Earn share scheme

About FDM

We are a business and technology consultancy and one of the UK's leading employers, recruiting the brightest talent to become the innovators of tomorrow. We have centres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, and a global workforce of over 4,000 Consultants. FDM has shown exponential growth throughout the years, firmly establishing itself as an award-winning employer and is listed on the FTSE4Good Index.

Diversity and Inclusion

FDM Group is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status or any other status protected by federal, provincial or local laws.