Development Analyst
£38,000 – £45,000 plus benefits (Work Level 6A)
Manchester city centre, in this role you’ll work in a hybrid way splitting your time between home and the office (find out more about our hybrid working policy at colleagues.coop.co.uk/hybrid-working-policy)

We’re looking for a Development Analyst to join the Optimisation Centre team within our wider Co-op Business Services (CBS) organisation. CBS is made up of a number of diverse teams dedicated to delivering high-quality, reliable and cost-effective business services across our Co-op. You’ll play a key role in helping CBS to support and realise our group vision of ‘co-operating to build more value for member-owners every day’.

We’ll look to you to be accountable for driving data best practice, making sure data is optimised, by developing data-driven solutions and supporting with the creation of system analysis which will allow Co-op colleagues to make data driven decision decisions and drive value for our customers, members, and communities. 

What you’ll do

• Work alongside business partners to understand high level business problems and capture these as user stories, making sure you clearly articulate the business benefits
• Translate business problems into technical solution designs, reacting to business needs and creating solutions to tight timescales
• Model data which is readily available in our data platforms and of sufficient quality to deliver the agreed solutions in a way which meets user requirements, is scalable, and makes sure solutions are performant
• Use common tools and standards to develop solutions to be applied across other business reporting functions, making sure a robust, well-integrated, and well-supported product is delivered
• Support the development of analysis and impact assessments that enable business interpretation of technical changes
• Conduct thorough testing of any solutions and work with partners to achieve business sign-off of the solutions developed
  

This role would suit people who have

• Demonstrable experience of understanding business problems, scoping requirements, and designing potential solutions
• Experience in building and maintaining solutions and products utilising Microsoft Access (including SQL), Visual Basic, Microsoft Excel, PowerAutomate and SharePoint (including Lists)
• Familiarity with SAP ECC and/or SAP S4 HANA, and canvas based PowerApps•    experience in the management and processing of data, data quality, and data analysis
• Experience with data visualisation techniques and tools including Power BI 
• An understanding of a standard system database structure and the relationships between tables

Why Co-op? 

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)
• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays 
• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions
• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)
• Coaching and training to support your career development
• Wagestream app – giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn

At Co-op, we’re proud to do things a different way. As one of the world’s largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we’ve had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities. 

Building a diverse environment

We’re actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you’d like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we’ll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

You can find out more about our recruitment process at jobs.coop.co.uk/apply-process

You can find out more about the Disability Confident scheme and all our commitments to diversity and inclusion at colleagues.coop.co.uk/diversity-inclusion-and-wellbeing

Please note that we may close applications for this role early. 

As part of your application, you'll need to complete an online assessment. This assessment typically takes between 45-60 minutes.