Lead Strategy Analyst

Company Description

Depop is a peer-to-peer circular fashion marketplace where anyone can buy, sell and discover secondhand fashion. Our mission is simple: to make fashion circular by making secondhand as exciting and rewarding as buying new.

Founded in 2011, Depop’s diverse community has helped move resale into the mainstream, where buying secondhand is no longer an alternative, but how people of different ages now engage with fashion. Today, more than 56 million registered users come to Depop to find great value, express their own personal style and give clothes a longer life. We believe that everything you want already exists, and our role is to help people discover it.

Powered by a team of over 500 people, our company is headquartered in London, with offices in New York. In 2021, Depop became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etsy - the global marketplace for unique and creative goods - and continues to operate as a standalone company. For more information, visit www.depop.com

We aim to create an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome, no matter who they are or where they’re from. Just as our platform connects people globally, we believe our workplace should reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We thrive on the power of different perspectives and experiences, knowing they drive innovation and bring us closer to our users.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, providing employment opportunities without regard to age, ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy or maternity, marriage and civil partnership, or any other protected status. We’re continuously evolving our recruitment processes to ensure fairness and are open to accommodating any needs you might have.

AI Disclosure: We use AI tools (Google Gemini) to help our team source and review applications for roles with a high volume of applications. These tools assist our recruiters in identifying great talent but do not replace human decision-making. At Depop, every hiring decision is made by a human.

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The Strategy Analytics team drives Depop's growth by building a deep understanding of our marketplace, answering some of the most critical strategic questions and helping to identify key opportunities.

This role works closely with our Strategy, Strategic Finance and Executive Team stakeholders to support on strategic projects and commercial reporting.

This includes leading on company-level performance reporting, translating ambiguous strategic questions into practical analysis and communicating these results to a senior set of stakeholders. This is to ensure that the management team has a strong basis of understanding of company performance based on data. It is also to ensure we are able to make accurate and timely forecasts of company performance and be able to explain deviations in a structured way. Finally, it is to ensure that senior stakeholders are supported with their strategic questions with well articulated analysis. These are all in the support of making the best strategic decisions to enable the company to deliver on user experience and business goals.

This role requires a high level of independence and working directly with senior stakeholders to solve challenging strategic problems. Expertise in choosing the right method from a broad set of analytical methods under the constraints of time and data availability is crucial. This role will also involve management of 1 direct report.

Responsibilities

- Strategic Analysis: work closely with the Strategy, Strategic Finance and Exec teams to lead analytics on ambiguous strategic questions with a high level of independence, including supporting special projects. This will sometimes require expansion of responsibilities into new domains and supporting new growth opportunities and/or cross functional teams.
- Contribute to company level reporting: collaborate on executing the monthly and quarterly company level reporting. This will require a combination of building core slide outputs as well as efficient short deep dives into key trends, risks and opportunities
- Ownership of the forecast model: be the key SME on forecasting topline GMV for the business and understanding of deviations of actual performance
- Strategy and Exec team support: be one of the go-to contact in the Insights team for the strategy and exec teams, which will mean solving ambiguous problems under time pressure

Requirements

- Exemplary problem solving skills, with particular strength in creating meaningful analysis from ambiguous questions
- Outstanding verbal and written communication of results to a wide variety of stakeholder levels
- A high degree of independence and ability to manage upwards to senior stakeholders
- Experienced in building succinct briefs for which you are equally adept at executing or passing onto your direct report
- Ability to build relationships across a wide range of stakeholder teams and leverage their knowledge to answer higher level strategic questions
- Thrives when working across multiple projects
- Aptitude and resourcefulness to work in new domains
- Expertise in SQL and the ability to work with large datasets
- Expertise in visualisation tools like Looker or Tableau
- Experience in Python and command over ETL scripts
- Deep commercial awareness and a proactive attitude to make a difference and drive impact
- Demonstrates ownership over more complex projects and expertise in prioritising their own work

- Forecasting and reporting experience
- Proactive in finding new opportunities and avenues of analysis for answering key strategic questions

Additional Information

Health + Mental Wellbeing

- PMI and cash plan healthcare access with Bupa
- Subsidised counselling and coaching with Self Space
- Cycle to Work scheme with options from Evans or the Green Commute Initiative
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for 24/7 confidential support
- Mental Health First Aiders across the business for support and signposting

Work/Life Balance:

- 25 days of annual leave with the option to carry over up to 5 days
- Impact hours: Up to 2 days of additional paid leave per year for volunteering
- Fully paid 4-week sabbatical after completion of 5 years of consecutive service with Depop, to give you a chance to recharge or do something you love.
- Flexible Working: MyMode hybrid-working model with Flex, Office-Based, and Remote options *role-dependent
- All offices are dog-friendly

Family Life:

- For birth parent: 20 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
- For non-birth parents: 12 weeks of paid parental leave for full-time regular employees
- IVF leave, shared parental leave, and paid emergency parent/carer leave

Learn + Grow:

- Twice-yearly development chats and yearly performance reviews
- Learning budget
- Upskilling our employees with company-wide training workshops, materials and resources

Your Future:

- Life Insurance (financial compensation of 3x your salary)
- Pension matching up to 6% of full base salary with Aviva

Depop Extras:

- In-office Depop Shop (that’s free!) and a packing station with free delivery.
- Special milestones are celebrated with gifts and rewards!