About this role
We’re Pentland Brands: a global family business behind some of the world’s most iconic active and lifestyle brands. We bring integrity, energy and ambition to our work, setting high standards and striving to deliver great outcomes without ego.
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Design cycling apparel built for movement, endurance and the ride ahead.
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At Pentland Brands, every role helps move our brands forward. Whether you’re supporting our people, improving our systems, growing our commercial performance, strengthening operations or shaping better ways of working, your impact reaches across a portfolio of iconic brands used by consumers around the world.
This role is pivotal in shaping and delivering the analytics strategy for Pentland Brands, partnering closely with senior business stakeholders across all regions.
You will act as a trusted advisor to the business, using your deep understanding of functional processes, data architecture, and analytics to identify opportunities, influence decisions, and deliver scalable, data-driven solutions that drive impact.
In addition to leading the analytics agenda, you will also manage a high-performing team of data analysts and visualisation analysts. This team is responsible for all analytics projects, functional insights and delivering dashboards, reporting and other tactical analysis as part of the wider global analytics capability.
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What you’ll be doing:
- Co-own the delivery of the Global Analytics roadmap by translating the Global Analytics vision into a clear execution plan, ensuring priorities, roadmaps, and resources are aligned to the highest-value outcomes for the business.
- Enable and support Analytics Partners by providing the delivery capability, tools, and governance needed to turn scoped business questions into actionable outputs, while helping create smooth handoffs between partnering, prioritisation, and execution.
- Lead and continue building a high performing analytics delivery function in GCH at scale with the right resource capacity and capabilities are in place.
- Build the right culture within the GCH GA team as well as set the right ways of working with other functions such as Data Engineering, MDG/MDM etc.
- Own the semantic layer and analytical standards that underpin reporting, self-service, and AI-enabled use cases, ensuring common definitions, trusted metrics, and scalable access to insight across the organisation.
- Embed AI into analytics delivery in a practical way by improving how the team uses AI to increase productivity, enhance insight generation, and support business growth, while ensuring the delivery team keeps pace with relevant AI developments and applies them responsibly.
Capabilities
Strategic & Business Acumen
- Deep understanding of business functions, especially Finance and HR, to contextualize analytical work.
- Ability to shape and influence KPIs, identifying commercial levers and drivers of value.
- Translates complex business challenges into clear, solvable analytical problems.
Technical & Analytical Expertise
- Proficient in data analysis and modelling (e.g., regression, clustering, forecasting) using tools like SQL, Python, R, or Power BI/Tableau.
- Comfortable with data pipelines, ETL processes, and cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
- Applies critical thinking to incomplete or messy datasets, using structured, hypothesis-driven approaches.
Communication, Leadership & Influence
- Synthesises complex analysis into clear, compelling stories that drive decision-making.
- Builds strong cross-functional relationships, including with senior stakeholders, to influence outcomes.
- Leads and develops a small team, ensuring continued growth in skills, performance, and personal development.
What you’ll bring:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Economics, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.
- 12+ years of experience in business analysis, strategic planning, or solution delivery. Proven experience working with cross-functional teams (Product, Finance, IT, Sales, Marketing) with a strong background in transforming business needs into functional and technical requirements.
- Experience in change adoption programs, process redesign, or digital transformation.
- Ability to challenge the status quo and identify areas for innovation.
- Familiarity with other cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, Azure) and hybrid environments.
- Strong storytelling and data visualization skills for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to manage and prioritize multiple projects.
- Expert in requirements gathering, gap analysis, root cause analysis, and KPI tracking.
- Comfortable with statistical tools, forecasting, and performance trend interpretation.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to translate complex data into actionable business insights.
- Skilled in managing senior stakeholder expectations and facilitating workshops or working sessions.
- Experience managing a team of high performing analysts ensuring timelines are met and the teams development progresses
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Why Pentland Brands?
Pentland Brands is the name behind some of the world’s best-known sport, outdoor and lifestyle brands, including Speedo, Berghaus, Canterbury, Endura, Ellesse, Kickers and Mitre.
We are a global family business with a clear purpose: pioneering brands that make life better. Across our teams, functions and locations, we work together to create products, experiences and partnerships that help people live more active, confident and positive lives.
Joining Pentland Brands means becoming part of a business where your work can have real reach, across multiple brands, markets, teams and disciplines. It is a place for people who want to contribute, collaborate, improve how things are done and help build the future of brands with heritage, ambition and global impact.
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Perks & Benefits
Alongside a competitive salary and discretionary bonus, we offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, flexibility, and life outside work. This includes generous holiday allowance, hybrid and flexible working, employee transportation, pension and gratuity contributions, wellbeing support, medical, personal accident & term life insurance cover.
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The Interview Process
We want our interview process to feel clear, straightforward, and supportive. If your experience and expectations look like a strong match for the role, here’s what you can expect next:
- Talent Team Intro Call - A 30-minute video call with our Talent Team to get to know each other, talk through the role and your experience, and answer any questions you have.
- Experience Interview - A more in-depth interview (usually online) with the hiring manager to explore your skills, experience and approach, and how these align with the role, our principles, and our ways of working.
- Final Interview - A final in-person interview at our office, focused on deeper discussion and practical application, giving you the chance to meet more of the team and see Pentland Brands in action.