BI Developer

As a BI Developer in the team, you will be an essential part of the Reporting function, collaborating with analysts, data specialists, and business colleagues. Leveraging your expertise and previous experience, your role involves delivering projects end-to-end which deliver actionable insights that drive strategic initiatives and operational improvements. You will work closely with business users to gather requirements then design, build, and maintain efficient and sustainable BI solutions.

We have a flexible / hybrid approach – talk to us about part time or job share opportunities in this role, if it’s meaningful to you, it’s important to us.

What’s in it for you

Being a part of M&S is exactly that – becoming a part and playing your part. We’re an inclusive, dynamic, exciting, and always evolving business built on core values.

Here are some of the benefits we offer that make working for M&S just that little bit more special…

• 20% Colleague discount on most things from furniture, fashion and food.
• A first-class welcome to M&S with a tailored induction and a wide range of training schemes to help with your learning and development. Having options to progress is something we’re proud of at M&S.
• Attractive annual bonus, based on company performance and personal goals.
• Competitive holiday entitlement with the potential to buy extra holiday days!
• Amazing perks and discounts via our M&S Choices website. Including GymSave – that offers up to 25% off Gym Memberships and the option to become an M&S Shareholder using our ShareSave & ShareBuy Schemes
• Charity Volunteer Day – A paid day away from work to support your chosen charity.
• A very generous Defined Contribution Pension Scheme and Life Assurance
• Every colleague at M&S has access to a fantastic range of wellbeing support – this includes access to our 24/7 Virtual GP, PAM Assist to support you & your family & free access to the UnMind App as well as many other schemes

What you’ll do

Your key accountabilities will include

• Identify opportunities to automate existing manual processes with business intelligence enhancements
• Gather requirements, scope and design BI/reporting solutions in collaboration with business users
• Develop BI/reporting solutions to support Food business operations as part of wider transformation projects
• Coordinate the testing, training, and launch of solutions
• Partner with Change Management and Finance teams to measure and report the impact of solutions
• Continuously track usage of BI/reporting solutions to understand engagement and effectiveness
• Provide technical leadership in selecting and deploying appropriate technologies
• Plan and deliver daily operational support to ensure solution availability for business users
• Support the Reporting function in cloud migration programme, decommissioning legacy solutions where possible

Who you are

Your skills and experience will include

• Proven experience in leading the scoping, design, and delivery of BI/reporting solutions
• Proficiency in data visualization and user experience design
• Experience testing solutions and measuring impact, either independently or by collaborating with other analysts
• Strong SQL knowledge
• Advanced skills in Power BI
• Familiarity of Microsoft Power Platform (Power Apps, Power Automate)
• Experience using Microsoft Azure, Databricks, or Synapse
• Advanced Excel skills
• Knowledge of Python or R
• Background in food retail or FMCG

Everyone’s welcome

M&S is ready to push boundaries to lead the retail industry into a greener, speedier, more inspiring digital era. That’s why we’re revolutionising how we work and offering our most exciting opportunities yet. There’s never been a better time to be part of our team. Marks & Spencer aims to be an inclusive organisation, trusted and admired by our colleagues, customers and suppliers. Join us and make an immediate impact.

We’re an in-person business and have core collaboration days in our Support Centre each week. For most teams, this is 3 working days where we come together to collaborate, innovate, and serve our customers brilliantly.

We are committed to an active Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunities Policy, which starts with our recruitment and selection process, and we are happy to talk flexible working.

If you consider yourself to require reasonable adjustments to any part of our recruitment process, we invite you to share those requirements with us when completing your application. We will make every effort to ensure your needs are met to provide a fair and transparent process of assessment.