[Hiring] Senior Business Data Analyst @Hunt St

Role Description

The Senior Business Data Analyst will play a key role in helping to turn data into better commercial, customer, and operational decisions across its brands and retail, digital, and wholesale channels. This is a hands-on role that combines strong analytical capability with business partnering, working closely with stakeholders to understand business challenges, define requirements, and translate complex data into clear, actionable insights. The role will analyse customer, product, sales, inventory, and operational data, identify trends and performance drivers, challenge assumptions, and provide recommendations that directly support business priorities.

Key Responsibilities

• Business analysis and problem definition
• Work with stakeholders to understand business problems, decisions, and priorities
• Build a strong understanding of the business processes behind the data
• Requirements definition
• Gather requirements for analytics, reporting, and data initiatives
• Define metrics, business rules, data needs, and acceptance criteria
• Document requirements to allow technical teams to build the right solution
• Help prioritise requirements based on business value, effort, and available data
• Analytics and insights
• Analyse customer, product, sales, inventory, and operational data
• Identify trends, performance drivers, risks, and opportunities
• Test assumptions and investigate the reasons behind business performance
• Turn findings into clear insights and practical recommendations
• Present analysis in a way that helps stakeholders make decisions and take action
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate and supported by the data
• Stakeholder partnership
• Build strong working relationships across Brand and Technology teams
• Run workshops and working sessions to explore problems and review findings
• Challenge assumptions where needed and help stakeholders reach a shared view

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of experience in data analysis, business analysis, or a related role
• Experience analysing data and presenting findings to business stakeholders
• Experience turning business questions into structured analysis and clear recommendations
• Experience defining metrics, business rules, and data requirements
• Experience or strong knowledge of the apparel industry, along with an understanding of retail, digital, and wholesale channels
• Experience in areas such as product, merchandising, planning, inventory, ecommerce, or supply chain

Technical Skills

• Strong skills in SQL, Excel, and data visualisation
• Practical experience with PowerBI or a similar BI tool
• Experience with Snowflake or a similar data platform would be useful
• Exposure to advanced analytics or AI-driven data analytics would be an advantage

Essential Qualities

• Analytically strong
• Confident working directly with data to answer business questions
• Takes a careful approach to calculations, definitions, and data quality
• Structured problem solver
• Brings clarity to broad or unclear problems
• Breaks complex questions into manageable analytical work
• Clear and collaborative
• Works well with both business and technical teams
• Explains findings simply and without unnecessary technical language
• Listens to stakeholders while providing constructive challenge
• Outcome focused
• Focused on identifying practical, actionable insights
• Connects analysis to commercial, customer, and operational outcomes
• Takes ownership of work from initial question through to final recommendation

Work Arrangement & Expectations

This is a remote role that will be set up as an independent contractor engagement. To ensure alignment and transparency, successful candidates will be expected to:

• Disclose any existing ongoing roles or client work
• Reflect this engagement on their LinkedIn profile (clearly marked as “Independent Contractor”)