Salary – Up to £45k/annum + Benefits.

Location – Flexible with travel to London up to twice a month post COVID.

Opportunity:

Great opportunity to progress your career in a well-respected and growing team, working with a variety of clients. Opportunity to learn technical skills such as Python

Skills required:

• Must have location planning and data analysis experience
• ESRI and/or Alteryx skills are a bonus.

To apply please contact Paul Halsall on paul@redtigerconsulting.co.uk

Do you want to be part of a community and grow a career? At Southern Co-op we work hard because we want to do well and the more successful we are the more we can give back to our members and communities – that’s the beauty of a co-operative.

PURPOSE OF ROLE

We have an exciting opportunity for a Location Planner to join our property team. The role will undertake the appropriate assessment of all proposed new locations for Food, End of Life (to include Funeral Homes, Crematoria and Natural Burial Grounds), Cobra Coffee and our Franchise business, and where appropriate to include robust sales and margin forecasts.

To provide supporting information and data to the Property team enabling appropriate investment decisions to be made for trading sites new planning applications (e.g. Crematoriums and Natural Burial Grounds) and redevelopment/extension opportunities for all properties within the portfolio.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Help maintain ELS, Food and Cobra Coffee network plans, taking account of changing consumer behaviours and expectations, whilst providing achievable targets for potential acquisition and financially viable opportunities for Southern Co-op.
• Develop sales and margin forecasts to enable robust investment recommendations and decisions for new sites, store redevelopment opportunities and store extensions, using both desk analysis and fieldwork.
• Maintain an up to date competitor monitoring report based on planning reports to inform the business of potential financial impacts.
• Prepare impact assessments of future competitor store openings to inform commercial and marketing decisions on nearby trading stores.
• Assess End of Life development opportunities including Funeral Homes, Crematoriums and Natural Burial Grounds whilst monitoring changes in this particular market as new consumer behaviours and competitors emerge.
• Assess potential locations for Cobra Coffee, using various formats derived from Starbucks Equity, and sales forecasts for new and replacement sites to enable robust and sustainable investment decisions to be made.
• Source current sales trend analysis to support last financial year EBITDA trend to better support repair and enhancement works costs for FM and Estates decision making on our existing portfolio as required.
• Work alongside all Property functions to deliver forecasts and supporting information to meet the timescales for individual Board CAPEX submissions.
• Assist in the definition of model location criteria for ELS, Food and Cobra Coffee along with the key drivers of store/location performance.
• Provide advice and support for the development of space and range strategies for the food business working with the Trading and Format and Marketing teams.
• Assist in the sourcing, maintenance and development of appropriate systems, information/data and analytical processes to support ELS, Food, Cobra Coffee and Property and across Southern Co-ops’ business as a whole.
• Deputise for the Networks and Location Planning Manager.

KEY EXPERIENCE, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Experience in a senior location planning role covering a number of commercial sectors, ideally to include ELS, Food, Coffee and Property.
• Ability to explain complex data set findings to a range of audiences and capable of presenting fully reasoned persuasive recommendations to Southern Co-op’s CE, FD and COOs.
• In depth knowledge of the food retail landscape across the UK and in particular within the Southern Co-op trading area to include population and demographic change, competing grocery operators and their development strategies and customer behaviour.
• Significant knowledge of the coffee shop market, including its structure by mainstream and independent operators, delivery formats and consumer behaviour.
• A pragmatic approach to combining data outputs with observation and experience to produce sound commercial judgments on site potential opportunities.
• Experience in the use of geo-demographic market analysis software e.g. ArcGis, InSIte, MicroMarketer.
• Able to apply a variety of modelling and forecasting techniques to explain and predict performance within the three primary businesses.
• A broad understanding of property market trends (to include retail, funeral, coffee, small office, industrial, trade counters and investment)
• Good geographical knowledge of the UK retail landscape generally and Southern Co-op’s target trading territory in particular.

If you’re passionate about location planning, and have a background in a fast-paced environment then we would love to hear from you. In return, we will offer a competitive salary and benefits package, as well as the opportunity to develop your skills and grow your career.

Location: Our staff are working remotely at the moment due to Covid-19 safety measures.  When we can return to normal working practice our office is based at Lakeside, Portsmouth.

Location Intelligence at CACI

At CACI we believe every organisation should do amazing things with data to evidence decisions and identify opportunities. We provide our clients with actionable solutions to complex problems and pride ourselves in having market-leading capabilities in all key areas of service – ‘doing the right thing’ for our clients to ensure long-lasting relationships.
You will be working with the leading Location Intelligence team across the world, responsible for delivering advanced spatial analysis and insight to major organisations across a range of sectors and countries. We provide analytical consultancy, cutting edge software and the latest data to help our clients optimise their location strategies across both the physical and digital landscape. Projects can last anywhere between a week and 6 months, ranging from performance analysis, customer insight, defining network strategies, BI & visualisation and predictive modelling. We collaborate closely with our clients to ensure we understand their aims and objectives, incorporate their feedback and knowledge, and develop a bespoke solution to meet their business needs.

Key responsibilities

We are looking for a candidate with up to 5 years’ experience, to work within our Location Analytics technical team – working with companies from a broad range of sectors (e.g. retail, leisure, grocery, automotive and the public sector), both within the UK and internationally.
The ideal candidate would consider themselves to be a problem solver with strong data skills, who can come up with creative solutions to real world problems. In addition, there will be a high degree of client contact, so you should have excellent communication and presentation skills.

Who you are

• You are a problem solver who can dissect complex business problems and find innovative ways to deliver a solution.
• You excel in analysing large data sets, and enjoy identifying insights, trends and opportunities.
• You are self-motivated, willing to learn new skills and comfortable receiving a high level of responsibility from day one.
• Have a curiosity and passion for data, analytics and innovation.
• A strong communicator, simplifying complex data into compelling and insightful stories.
• Capable of providing high-quality insights and recommendations from complex information for consultative projects.

What you will do

• Help create and deliver a wide range of bespoke projects using a variety of different techniques and tools.
• Develop creative and impactful analyses to drive real world strategies and outcomes.
• Deliver solutions and tools that enable our team and clients to work more efficiently and effectively.
• Communicate insights and technical approaches to clients verbally and in writing, including documenting analytical methodologies for reports and developing graphs and charts appropriate for use by senior executives.
• Use your experience and knowledge to contribute to innovations in Location Analytics and in the wider CACI business.

Essential skills, knowledge and experience required

• A degree in a numerate discipline or proven consulting experience.
• Experience in an analytical / consulting role.
• Knowledge and experience building spatial and non-spatial models in real-world applications.
• Familiar with ETL and business intelligence platforms (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, etc).
• Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
• You are a self-starter and willing to bring new ideas to the business to develop your colleagues and the wider team.
• Demonstrate a creative curiosity and passion for your role.
• Self-motivated, organized, detail-oriented, with a positive, “can do” attitude.

Desirable skills and experience

• Familiar with database query language (e.g. SQL).
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Familiar with programming languages (e.g. R, Python) and experience with, learning to write and maintain programming code and database scripts.
• Can demonstrate skills in algorithm development, data manipulation and visualisation.
• A communicative person that can explain complex topics in simple terms.
• Experience and knowledge of the consumer retail market or areas within the public sector.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package (including technical team bonus)
• Flexible working
• Pension scheme enrolment
• Health & Wellbeing Cash Plan benefit
• Private healthcare scheme (eligible after two years of service)
• Life assurance, personal accident and income protection cover
• Optional season ticket and bicycle purchase loans
• Free Gym membership

Other information

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

The role will also be based out of CACI’s head office in Kensington, London, fitted with all the necessary precautions for social distancing in the workplace. However, as we continue to work under the government’s current COVID-19 guidance, it is expected that much of this role will be done remotely for the near future.

At GEOLYTIX we seek new and innovative ways to make spatial analytics accessible, exciting and indispensable. Our customers span the retail, financial, property, leisure and food & beverage industries, across the world.

We build innovative solutions to support our clients to make better decisions combining various forecasting methods and statistical models, GIS and web tools to create bespoke solutions. We are always looking to do things better.

We have fun and value every member of our team.

Are you our next Senior Data Scientist?

About You

• You’re already a data scientist or modeller – your idea of a good day is receiving huge amounts of data and working out how customers are going to behave.
• You enjoy problem solving, and will be building gravity or regression models, for a variety of clients across wide ranging sectors. You’ll use machine learning alongside as a comparison.
• You want to be original – you don’t want to do the same old, same old. You’re consistently looking for innovation.
• You know all the statistical techniques e.g. why regression is sometimes not a good idea.
• You know your way around a GIS.
• You enjoy the world of retail, and have a good grasp of geography.
• You know enough about programming so that you’re quick and efficient, anything you don’t know you can quickly grasp.
• If you don’t have experience with really big data, you’ll be keen to learn how we process it at GEOLYTIX.
• You’re a ‘people person’ and build relationships with customers as you will lead projects on your own.

Your qualifications and experience

• Experience of SQL for the manipulation of data (e.g. postgres).
• Modelling & Statistical Analysis experience, ideally customer related.
• A university degree – numbers based, Computer Science or Geography.
• Relevant industry sector knowledge ideal but not essential.
• A strong communicator with the ability to work with colleagues remotely across the globe.
• Be able to provide evidence of attention to detail, proactivity and managing deadlines.

Other stuff

Our offices are in Leeds and Kings Cross, London. The role can be located in either. Competitive salary. We’re a young and growing company who embrace flexible working; full time or part time, family friendly hours and/or working from home days considered.

Interested?

If you are interested in this role and are looking for your next challenge, please send your CV and cover letter to info@geolytix.co.uk. No agencies please.

It’s been a while since we shared any job advertisements so hopefully, as we settle into our second lockdown here in the UK this is a good indication that the economy at least is looking good.

Location Intelligence at CACI

At CACI we believe every organisation should do amazing things with data to evidence decisions and identify opportunities. We provide our clients with actionable solutions to complex problems and pride ourselves in having market-leading capabilities in all key areas of service – ‘doing the right thing’ for our clients to ensure long-lasting relationships.

You will be working with the leading Location Intelligence team across the world, responsible for delivering advanced spatial analysis and insight to major organisations across a range of sectors and countries. We provide consultancy, cutting edge software and the latest data to help our clients optimise their location strategies across both the physical and digital landscape. Projects typically last between a week and 6 months, ranging from performance analysis, customer insight, defining network strategies, BI & visualisation and advanced predictive modelling. We work closely with our clients to ensure we understand their aims and objectives, incorporate their feedback and knowledge, and develop a bespoke solution to meet their business needs.

Key responsibilities

We are looking for a data scientist with up to 5 years’ experience, to work within our Location Intelligence technical team. It is a young and sociable team that are looking for a self-motivated person with a willingness to learn new skills and who is comfortable receiving a high level of responsibility from day one.

Within the wider Location Intelligence team, we work with companies from a broad range of sectors, both within the UK and internationally, including retail, leisure, grocery, automotive and the public sector.<br>We are looking for a problem solver, who can come up with creative solutions to our clients’ problems and help to drive innovation and efficiency within the team.

Key responsibilities include:

• Taking on deep-dive analysis of data and generate new business insights with the development of predictive models
• Helping to create and deliver a wide range of bespoke projects and tools using a variety of different environments, languages and techniques
• Developing our analytical capabilities, researching related technologies and approaches, enabling other areas of the group
• Playing a part in owning and maintaining the underlying processes and infrastructure we are building to support the day-to-day work

Core skills, knowledge, experience required

• A degree in a numerate discipline and strong understanding of statistics
• Familiar with programming languages (e.g. R, Python) and experience with, learning to write and maintain programming code and database scripts
• Knowledge and experience building spatial and non-spatial predictive models in real-world applications.
• Can demonstrate skills in algorithm development, data manipulation and visualisation
• Familiar with analytics and business intelligence platforms (e.g. Alteryx, Tableau, Power BI, QlikView/Sense)
• You are a self-starter, creative and willing to challenge the status quo
• Demonstrate an intellectual curiosity and passion for learning data science, exploring the fields of data engineering and machine learning

Desirable skills and experience

• Familiar with database query language (e.g. SQL)</li><li>Strong Microsoft Excel skills
• Excellent oral and written communication
• Experience with a cloud platform (e.g. AWS, Snowflake)</li><li>Coding standards, version control (e.g. Git)
• A communicative person that can explain complex topics in simple terms
• Experience and knowledge of the consumer retail market or areas within the public sector

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package (including technical team bonus)
• Flexible working
• Pension scheme enrolment
• Health &amp; Wellbeing Cash Plan benefit
• Private healthcare scheme (eligible after two years of service)
• Life assurance, personal accident and income protection cover
• Optional season ticket and bicycle purchase loans
• Free Gym membership

Other

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.

The role will also be based out of CACI’s head office in Kensington, London, fitted with all the necessary precautions for social distancing in the workplace. However, as we continue to work under the government’s current COVID-19 guidance, it is expected that much of this role will be done remotely for the near future.

To apply for this vacancy please contact Tom Hewer on <a Location_Analytics_Recruitment@caci.co.uk and remember to say you heard about it here first!