At Dreams, we know your bed is the best place in the whole world. But for the hours between precious sleep, we’d like to make work a special place to be too. We’re the UK’s most loved bed retailer, so it’s important our people feel the love as well. There’s over 250 of us at our affectionally named ’Bedquarters’ in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where every dreamer makes a difference.

We’re super passionate about our people-first culture, which means we like to keep things simple and celebrate every success, big or small! From a payday treats trolley to charity fundraisers and all-staff lunches, we know we do it best when we do it together.

And together we’ve been making bedtimes better since 1985, with no signs of hitting the snooze button. We’re owned by the world’s largest bedding provider, Tempur Sealy, and have our very own Bed Factory right here in the UK. You’ll even get a guided tour when you join - that’s part of our mission to get you fully bed-ucated during your induction.

With 208 stores nationwide, 6 central warehouses and 12 delivery centres, we sell 14,000 mattresses, bases and headboards every single week. Now that’s a lot of Zzzs.

So if you’re bonkers about bed, silly for siestas and keen on your kip, we think Dreams could be the perfect place for you.

Dreams. Love your job.

We’re looking for a new Data Analyst to join our Insight’s & Analytics team based in Loudwater, Buckinghamshire. In this role, Working in our fast-paced Finance & Insights dept, utilising market leading big data software (Alteryx and Tableau), this is a high-profile role positioned at the core of our retail operations (c£310m turnover; 210 stores nationwide and >1,000 colleagues) fostering a business partnering approach to provide financial insights and support to retail decision making. You will play a crucial part in the operation - driving process understanding, budgeting, forecasting, financial appraisal, and analysis and reporting; whilst building strong relationships with key stakeholders, highlighting opportunity and risk, and driving change. This is an exciting career opportunity to make a significant difference to business performance with direct exposure to the Executive Board and senior managers across the business.

Ready to skip the snooze button and get stuck in? Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing day-to-day...

-Business partner to Retail team; providing analytical support, investment appraisal, Revenue/cost/contribution analysis to drive fast and relevant decision making.
-Challenge and communicate across all levels of organisation, high degree of exposure to senior teams.
-Prepare function specific reporting, KPI analysis, and insights into the key drivers of performance.
-Build/maintain intuitive dashboards using Tableau/Alteryx; to promote automation & self-serve.
-Produce qualitative and quantitative analysis including customer behavior, industry trends, competition, spatial analytics, staffing needs etc. to recommend strategies across broad range of subjects.
-Interpret and understand complex data and translating this into value driven insight.
-Represent insights team, driving agenda through first class support, during budgeting/forecasting (including development of models) and month end meetings.
-Gather and maintain accurate and up-to-date records of data; and remain attuned to developments in the area.
-Work to tight deadlines, delivering outstanding level of credibility; reliability; completeness and accuracy.

This is the type of person we’re dreaming of:

-Commercial acumen; demonstrable industry experience; vast proven analytical/dashboarding experience
-Ability to rapidly and thoroughly understand the environment in which you will operate (people, applications, technology, process), to support faster decision making.
-Ability to interpret and understand data, identify trends/and patterns. working with analytical packages, with aptitude to learn new software and systems and critical thinking to provide recommendations.
-Professional communication skills: ability to build strong relationships across broad level of stakeholders.
-Highly motivated and resourceful, capable of working of own initiative, as individual or part of a team.
-Strong planning, organising and time management skills, accuracy, and adherence to deadlines.

In your dream role, you’ll also receive:

- Bonus: Our discretionary annual bonus scheme recognises the hard work and dedication of our superstar dreamers.
- Discounts: Amazing staff discount on Dreams products, plus hundreds of brands including restaurants, holidays, and shopping.
- Buy-in schemes: You’ll have the opportunity to buy extra holiday, private healthcare, or savings and loans.
- Parking: We know it goes without saying, but our free onsite parking gives you peace of mind when you travel.
- Wellbeing: We partner with the Retail Trust to offer a 24-hour helpline with a variety of support services, as well as hosting an on-site gym and out of hours GP service.
- Hybrid working: Whether you’re an early bird or night owl, we trust you to work your hours responsibly to suit you!