Data Analyst Apprentice – Dartford

Level 4 Data Analyst

Company: MEDITE SMARTPLY Limited

Full Address: Crossways Business Park, Cotton Lake House, Anchor Boulevard, Dartford DA2 6QH

Weekly Hours Worked: 09:00 – 17:00 – 37 hours

Salary: £29,000

Contact Information:
Please reach out to Nathaniel.Hamilton@estio.co.uk via email or call 0113 3500 333

About the Company:

MEDITE SMARTPLY is an innovative manufacturer of wood panel products. It is part of Coillte, the Irish Forest Company, which owns and manages over 442,000 hectares of FSC® certified forest.

SMARTPLY OSB is an engineered, load bearing wood-based panel product, free of knots and voids manufactured by compressing precisely engineered strands of wood with exterior resins at high temperature and pressure. SMARTPLY OSB is an innovative, environmentally sustainable solution for structural and non-structural building applications.

The MEDITE brand has pioneered the European MDF market. Through consistent commitment to research and development, MEDITE has established itself as a leading innovator with a range of 10 high specification panels for distinct applications.

MEDITE TRICOYA EXTREME has an expected service life of 60 years when used in exterior applications resulting from the combination of acetylated wood fibre technology and the manufacturing expertise of MEDITE.

All MEDITE products are CARB2 compliant or better, conforming to one of the strictest controls of formaldehyde emission levels. SMARTPLY OSB3 has no added formaldehyde in the manufacturing process.

All products are FSC certified, CE marked and EUTR compliant.

Job Description:

Role Summary:

This role is to help analyse and co-ordinate order book, financial, margin and price and customer data. This is a supporting role to help determine policy or tactical changes that improve the business’ functions, actions and profitability. This role directly supports the SMT and acts as a facilitator between the commercial organisation and the financial and operational functions. This is a proactive and responsive function that will support the senior sales and executive teams through-out the business.

Key Responsibilities:

As a L4 Data Analyst you will:

• Utilise and develop financial information systems and process controls to support the business objectives.
• Prepare and produce dashboards to support calculation and reporting of MS KPIs.
• Provide ‘order book’ analysis to plan and forecasts.
• Provide input to the ‘demand planning’ process. • Ensure timely, accurate reporting of sales performance, price, and margin gaps for MS
• Senior Management weekly, monthly & quarterly.
• Provide forecasts and outlooks as appropriate.
• Offer assistance on management of rebates and promotional plans.
• Prepare market insights bases on robust research sources.
• Support targeting and measurement of sales team bonus schedules.
• Support R&D, product mgt and plant finance on pricing and margin analysis.
• Update business reporting modules such as BI.
• Update and provide the business with sales pricing and volumes by product class & customer for financial outlooks, forecasts.
• Assist in the delivery of commercial inputs into Budget, and strategic / 5-year plans.
• Support data manipulation and interpretation from CRM systems.
• Support analysis for UK, EU & Ireland sales managers.
• Assist in supporting the business on specific project initiatives from time to time.

Qualifications:

• Educational Requirements: 5 GCSEs grades A*-C/9-4 or equivalent, including English Language and Maths.

Skills Required:

• Higher education in STEM subjects or equivalent
• Excellent numerical skills  Excellent Microsoft Office 365 Skills in Excel
• Experience using a Data Visualisation tool (Power BI or Tableau) datasets
• Able to analyse/manipulate large datasets
• Robust understanding of supply chain processes

Personal Qualities:

• Strong in mathematics
• Eagerness to learn
• Highly organised
• Data driven

Other Information:

• This role is to help analyse and co-ordinate order book, financial, margin and price and customer data. This is a supporting role to help determine policy or tactical changes that improve the business’ functions, actions and profitability. This role directly supports the SMT and acts as a facilitator between the commercial organisation and the financial and operational functions. This is a proactive and responsive function that will support the senior sales and executive teams through-out the business.
• The Company operates a Qualifying Workplace Pension scheme into which you will be auto enrolled if you meet the qualifying criteria. The amount deducted from your salary will be a minimum of 3% each month. (Depending on your salary band.) In return The Company would then contribute
• 5% monthly to your pension. (Depending on your salary band.) The combined monthly contribution to your pension would therefore total a minimum of 8%
• Free parking
• Accessible public transport

Future Prospects:

Opportunity for a full-time permanent role upon completion, with scope to undertake a Data Analyst Degree qualification

For more information, or to apply, please contact us at Hello@estio.co.uk or call [Leeds – 0113 3500 333
We look forward to hearing from you!

Estio apprenticeship training programmes are delivered virtually by our fully qualified and industry experienced training team. Using their expert knowledge, we’ve purposefully built our programmes around the real-world use of modern technology, so that the skills we create can be directly applied in the workplace.

Throughout the apprenticeship learners receive coaching, help and guidance from a dedicated team who are there to ensure they get the most from their work experience.

Successful completion of this apprenticeship gives you an accredited Level 4 Data Analyst, with training in how to:

• Ascertain how data can be used to answer questions and solve problems.
• Gather, inspect, cleanse, transform and model data to identify patterns and trends.
• Present data and produce dashboards and reports to aid visualization and comparison.
• Use advanced theory and diverse techniques to harness greater understanding.
• Inform decision-making and make recommendations using an evidence-based approach.
• Ensure your business processes and procedures are compliant with data protection legislation.

For a full list of programme modules visit: estio.co.uk/courses/data-analyst