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JD Sports Fashion Plc is an international multi-channel retailer operating over 800 stores under a number of fascias.

The JD Site Research team are recruiting for a Site Research Analyst to join their busy and expanding department at Head Office in Bury.

The position offers an exciting opportunity to shape the group’s future store network across the UK and Europe. Your primary responsibility will be to provide detailed and accurate sales forecasts to ensure that capital investment is targeted at opportunities that deliver the optimum return. In addition you
will also undertake a wide range of location and consumer related project work.

The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• 2+ years experience of working within a Retail or Consultancy location planning team.
• Proven track record in sales forecasting.
• Full understanding of location planning methodologies and usage of geo-demographics.
• Experience in the application of analytical tools such as GIS, Alteryrx and SPSS.
• Ability to communicate (both written and verbal) cross-functionally and to a wide variety of audiences.
• Excellent team player.

For this role you would need a full driving licence.

Download the full job specification here.

If you are interested in joining the team then please forward a covering letter and a copy of your CV to:

Alastair Browne
Site Research & Development Manager
alastair.browne@jdplc.com

Closing date for applications is Friday 13th September.

JD Sports Fashion PLC is the UK’s leading fashion retailer. The group now trades from over 800 stores across the UK and Europe as JD, BANK, Scotts, Size?, Blacks, Millets, Ceil Gee, Tessuti, Champion (Ireland), Chausport (France) and Sprinter (Spain), offering a wide range of exclusive, fashionable branded and own brand clothing and footwear.

For more information, please visit www.jdplc.com.

Pitney Bowes Software is looking to recruit a talented GIS professional for the Analytics & Data Coordinator position. The Analytics & data Coordinator can be someone with 2 years’ experience in a relevant field or a Graduate in the spatial (GIS), statistical, mathematical disciplines.

The Analytics & Data Coordinator position is an entry-level position in the Professional Services team and will provide the incumbent a hands-on opportunity to learn about practical data modeling and analysis and pave the way for future career growth in Pitney Bowes Software within the Professional Services department as a Consultant.

The Analytics Coordinator will be working with retail, telco, insurance, financial and other businesses to maximise the value they get from spatial data. This will be done by interpreting real business issues, analysing data, and formulating effective and practical analytical data and modelling solutions for our customers. Typically you will produce demographic analysis and reporting using MapInfo GIS suite (MapInfo Professional, MapInfo Drivetime, MapInfo Modeller), penetration reports and analysis using customer data with MapInfo’s data sets. The Analytics and Data Consulting department provides a unique service to a wide range of customers who require expertly prepared data analysis within a limited time period.

We seek excellent communication skills, good numeracy, and ability to liaise directly with clients as well as senior management, marketing and sales. Knowledge of GIS, geography and planning would all be valuable.

Responsibilities will include:

• To produce maps, analysis and reports for customers of a demographic nature.
• To liaise with the customer and advise on Analytics offerings, typically via phone or email to ensure all their requirements are captured to produce work of a high standard.
• Liaison with Marketing and Order Processing teams is required to ensure work is invoiced correctly and suitable marketing material produced.
• To contribute effectively to data projects/innovation/enhancement
• To support on Analytics projects as and when necessary in accordance with the requirements of the Analytics manager
• To identify and follow up business opportunities with existing and new clients in collaboration with more senior members of the team to maximise sales
• To assist in the preparation of project proposals, sales support, business development, marketing and presentation materials

Qualifications & Experience:

• University degree, spatial (GIS), statistical, mathematical background preferred
• Proficient user of GIS software
• Must have excellent attention to detail and be logical and methodical in your approach to work
• Must be a quick learner, particularly when learning about new products or skills
• Excellent communication skills – including oral, written and presentation skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficient user of MS Access, Word and Excel

Company Background

Pitney Bowes Software is a part of the Fortune 500 Pitney Corporation quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. PBS enables organisations to make viable business decisions through a combination of location intelligence, predictive analytics and communication intelligence. Offering the most comprehensive set of solutions for maximising the value of customer and location data, PBS provides the tools required to more effectively locate, connect and communicate with customers locally as well as on the global markets.

The combined offering provides a powerful CRM portfolio to help organisations more effectively acquire new customers and to retain and grow existing customer relationships.

‘Pitney Bowes Business Software provides a challenging and vibrant place to work in, promoting empowerment, creativity and exposure to all levels/functions of management.’

To know more about PBS, please log onto www.pitneybowes.co.uk/software

Pitney Bowes Software is an Equal Opportunities Employer

This is a direct position with the Organisation, NO AGENCIES PLEASE

To apply for this vacancy please email your CV and covering letter to emea.jobs@pb.com

Pitney Bowes Software is recruiting a Senior Analytics & Data Consultant for their EMEA Business based out of Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire. The Senior Analytics Consultant will be dealing with spatial data and building client specific business forecasting solutions/models.

Role Description

The Senior Analytics Consultant will be working with retail, telco, insurance, financial and other businesses to maximise the value they get from spatial data. This will be done by interpreting real business issues, analysing data, and formulating effective and practical analytical data and modelling solutions for our customers.

Typically he/she will work with customers to build customised datasets for applications such as real estate forecasting models, store and branch market optimisation models, geographically targeted marketing models, risk modelling, customer segmentation and propensity models, geodemographic segmentation and store clustering models.

The Senior Analytics Consultant will have experience of building spatial datasets and data models using both static and behavioural (transactional) data in industries such as retailing, telecommunications or insurance as well as incorporating the geographic location of customers, competitors, activity generators, and store locations. Experience in building retail catchment areas and using data warehouses or data-marts for customer and store/branch focused analysis, and working with large data volumes are major assets.

Responsibilities will include

• To assist the Analytics and Data Consulting team with a focus on spatial data development, processing, manipulation, analysis and visualisation
• To be responsible for delivering quality datasets and growing existing client base, participating in innovation initiatives and coaching and training clients and colleagues in these services
• To provide advice and support to clients in determining optimal approaches to achieve their business and sustainability objectives – using knowledge of GIS software and geospatial data
• To contribute effectively to data projects/innovation/enhancement – undertaking research and analysis of spatial data, together with data visualisation in accordance with the brief and budget to ensure project specifications are met
• To manage and support on Analytics projects as and when necessary in accordance with the requirements of the Analytics manager including taking responsibility for client liaison, budgeting adherence, presenting results etc.
• To identify and follow up business opportunities with existing and new clients in collaboration with more senior members of the team to maximise sales
• To prepare or assist in the preparation of project proposals, sales support, business development, marketing and presentation materials
• To ensure that project utilisation targets are met or exceeded in order to contribute to meeting team and company targets

Qualifications & Experience:

• University degree, spatial (GIS), statistical, mathematical background
• Ideally candidates need commercial experience within Retail, Telco, Insurance industries
• Knowledge of GIS/statistical package and programming/scripting/databases preferred e.g. MapInfo Professional, SAS, R, Python, JAVA, SQL, VBA
• Strong creative approach to solving new data processing problems with limited guidance
• Effective relationship building skills, with strong collaborative working skills and effective interpersonal and influencing skills
• Excellent communication skills – including oral, written and presentation skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Company Background

Pitney Bowes Software is a part of the Fortune 500 Pitney Corporation quoted on the New York Stock Exchange. PBS enables organisations to make viable business decisions through a combination of location intelligence, predictive analytics and communication intelligence. Offering the most comprehensive set of solutions for maximising the value of customer and location data, PBS provides the tools required to more effectively locate, connect and communicate with customers locally as well as on the global markets.

The combined offering provides a powerful CRM portfolio to help organisations more effectively acquire new customers and to retain and grow existing customer relationships.

‘Pitney Bowes Business Software provides a challenging and vibrant place to work in, promoting empowerment, creativity and exposure to all levels/functions of management.’

To know more about PBS, please log onto www.pitneybowes.co.uk/software

Pitney Bowes Software is an Equal Opportunities Employer

This is a direct position with the Organisation, NO AGENCIES PLEASE

To apply for this position please visit http://pb.taleo.net/careersection/pbbi_intl/jobdetail.ftl?lang=en&job=136025

Help us to continue leading the way, as a Regional Location Analyst at The Co-operative Group

• Be part of The Co-operative Group, the world’s largest consumer co-operative
• Work for The Co-operative Estates – a growing business area, in an expanding group
• Play an important and exciting role in the Group’s Food Transformation Project, which promises continued growth for years to come with ongoing new store openings
• Working in collaboration with Regional Acquisition Managers to carry out ‘zonal’ assessments of locations within your designated region, to project store turnovers ahead of business acquisition
• Proactively identify and search for opportunities for investment within your designated region, with ongoing site visits and assessments
• Working out projections, writing assessments, making recommendations and presenting findings

When you join The Co-operative Estates as a Regional Location Analyst, you’ll be joining a business area that is growing and growing. Our success is based on one simple, but massively important principle – a fair deal for everyone.

The key purpose of your role is to actively identify and recommend potential trading opportunities for investment and development, as well as commercial analysis on sites, acquisitions and existing store investment, such as refits and extensions.

Once investment opportunities are identified, using appropriate and current technology and methods, your role will be to create priority location lists that will support the Group’s strategic plans, to devise ad-hoc bespoke predictive analysis solutions, and provide ad-hoc and planned analysis to key stakeholders. To be successful in this role you’ll need to be…

• Proven in a comparable field-based analyst role, ideally in a retail or banking Estates environment with evidence of delivery
• Able to build strong, long lasting relationships, both internally and externally with senior stakeholders
• Able to demonstrate great communications skills, in person, over the phone and in writing, with the ability to present and simplify complex data
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, whilst being flexible to our business needs
• PC literate, with specific strengths in Microsoft packages
• An excellent organiser of your time and able to work to tight deadlines

A full driving licence is also required

If you think you have what it takes to be a Regional Location Analyst, have comparable experience and want to take your career to the next level, we can offer great benefits and opportunities for development. Which makes you wonder, shouldn’t we all work this way?

We are passionate about equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply.

‘The Co-operative Group reserves the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications’

Further Details can be found at:

www.co-operative.jobs
www.co-operative.jobs/head-office/estates/

There are 4 vacancies based regionally, 3 in The South and 1 North.

Salary: £38,515.00 to £48,144.00 per annum
Closing Date: Monday 13th May 2013
Ref: C19662

Enquiries: daran.hewitt@co-operative.coop

Help us to continue leading the way, as a Location Strategy and Analysis Manager at The Co-operative Group

• Be part of The Co-operative Group, the world’s largest consumer co-operative
• Work for The Co-operative Estates – a growing business area, in an expanding group
• Play an important and exciting role in the Group’s Food Transformation Project, which promises continued growth for years to come with ongoing new store openings
• You’ll manage your team to proactively indentify and search for investment opportunities, whilst implementing the ongoing store acquisition programme
• Support successful investment and meet strategic plans in collaboration with other Senior Managers
• Your team will provide data management and you’ll manage key relationships across the Group in Food, Banking, Funeralcare and Healthcare, to support their acquisition and disposal strategies

When you join The Co-operative Estates as a Location Strategy and Analysis Manager, you’ll be joining a business area that is growing and growing. Our success is based on one simple, but massively important principle – a fair deal for everyone.

As well as having input and influence in to the ongoing Retail Food Property Strategy, supporting the new store acquisition programme, identifying areas of potential opportunity and those under threat, you’ll work closely with key stakeholders across the Group to support their own acquisition and disposal strategies.

Your responsibilities will also include supporting the Senior and National Location Planning Managers to devise bespoke solutions in predictive analysis, presenting ad-hoc and planned analysis to wider Group Businesses, and ensuring expected service levels are met. To be successful in this role you’ll need to be…

• Proven in a comparable management role, ideally in a retail or banking Estates environment with evidence of delivery
• Able to build strong, long lasting relationships, both internally and externally with senior stakeholders
• Able to demonstrate great communications skills, in person, over the phone and in writing, with the ability to present and simplify complex data
• Self-motivated, able to work under pressure, whilst being flexible to our business needs
• PC literate, with specific strengths in Microsoft packages
• An excellent organiser of your time and able to work to tight deadlines

If you think you have what it takes to be a Location Strategy and Analysis Manager, have comparable experience and want to take your career to the next level, we can offer great benefits and opportunities for development. Which makes you wonder, shouldn’t we all work this way?

We are passionate about equal opportunities and welcome a broad diversity of talent to apply.

‘The Co-operative Group reserves the right to cease any advertising prior to the published closing date for a role that receives a high number of applications’

Further Details can be found at:
www.co-operative.jobs
www.co-operative.jobs/head-office/estates/

Salary: £46,250.00 – £57,812 per annum
Closing date: Monday 13th May 2013
Ref: C19660

Enquiries: daran.hewitt@co-operative.coop