Data Analyst

The Vacancy

Are you ready to take your Data Analyst career to the next level? The Wates Smartspace team is on the lookout for an analytical wizard to harness the power of data and drive impactful decisions. This isn’t your everyday data role; it’s an opportunity to lead transformation, refine raw data, and empower the business through precise insights and innovation.

What You’ll Be Doing:

As our Data Analyst, you’ll dive deep into data to reveal golden insights that shape business strategy. Here’s a taste of what your day-to-day will look like:

• Data Mastery: Characterize, model, and refine data, turning raw figures into business gold by identifying grains, dimensions, and transforming coded data into a common language that everyone understands.
• Team Collaboration: Work closely with team members to define needs, turn them into actionable user stories, and shape data solutions that drive Smartspace’s success.
• Insightful Reporting: Develop and deliver data-driven reports, aligning our Smartspace KPIs and connecting data from various digital solutions.
• Mentorship & Training: Share your knowledge, train team members, and upskill other digital and data units, ensuring data-driven thinking permeates every level of the business.
• In-Life Support: Troubleshoot, refine, and ensure all data flows remain structured and precise, supporting continuous improvements in data quality and reliability.
• Strategic Impact: Collaborate with Wates Digital and Data teams to build scalable, powerful data reporting solutions that drive us forward.

Why Choose Wates?

At Wates, we’re more than just a workplace; we’re a team that champions growth, innovation, and collaboration. Joining us means access to forward-thinking data and digital environments, and being part of a journey that drives real change.

Other benefits include:

• Competitive salary & profit share scheme
• Flexible working
• Car Allowance / Company Car *
• Travel covered to any of our sites*
• Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…
• One of the best learning and development programmes which is customizable to support your career progression goals. (c.7000 training sessions delivered year to date across the WATES Group)
• Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity.

(*Subject to role…….)

To find out more about LIFE AT WATES please click on the following link https://www.wates.co.uk/careers/

We are always looking for a variety of new talent to join our teams, to help us grow and innovate as a business. Although you may not have all of the skills listed, many of them may be transferable to other roles within the WATES Group.

If you would like clarity on any of our vacancies or to discuss career opportunities in strict confidence, please contact our In-House Recruitment Team directly via recruitment@wates.co.uk and one of us will get in touch as soon as possible.

As a responsible and inclusive employer, we are committed to equality and are proud to have been recognised for this through a range of accolades including gold accreditation with Investors in People, we are also a Disability Confident employer. Being a family owned, business means we understand and value long term relationships.

Given the nature of this position, you will need to undergo a Basic Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) at offer stage. Applicants with criminal convictions will be assessed individually, and we assure you that we do not discriminate based on an applicant’s criminal record or the details of any disclosed offenses. Additionally, certain roles may be subject to additional pre-employment checks.

To learn more about the checks included in this process, please click on the following link: National Security Vetting

Work for Wates

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies.  Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

• Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity.
• Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
• Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.