Interim Senior BI Manager

FARFETCH exists for the love of fashion. Our mission is to be the global platform for luxury fashion, connecting creators, curators and consumers.

We're a positive platform for good, bringing together an incredible creative community made up by our people, our partners and our customers. This community is at the heart of our business success. We welcome differences, empower individuality and celebrate diverse skills and perspectives, creating an inclusive environment for everyone. We are FARFETCH for All.

COMMERCIAL

We're partnering with global brands and the most influential and renowned boutique curators to bring our customers an unrivalled range of fashion to empower their individuality. We’re relationship builders, we’re solution finders and we’re analysts. We work with all areas of the FARFETCH business to improve our social and environmental impact while delivering business success. We want to empower our consumers to buy better, improve our operational footprint, and explore new business models that improve our impact.

LONDON

Our office is located in Old Street, London's tech hub. Our open-plan space is ideal for collaborative working. When you're not doing what's never been done, you can enjoy a team lunch on our large outdoor terrace, or join a yoga class in our dedicated studio.

THE ROLE

We are looking for an established BI professional to lead our team of BI developers within FARFETCH's Trading department, on a 12 month fixed term contract basis. Reporting to the Senior Director of Trading, you will work with data engineering and analytics teams across the business, translating technical developments into performant processes and reporting solutions which can be seamlessly incorporated into our ways of working.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

• Manage the BI Team within FARFETCH's Trading Department, overseeing a team of developers across two distinct sub-departments (Pricing, Supply)
• Preside over our core reporting models in Looker, ensuring seamless real-time reporting capabilities for our business-wide user base
• Take charge of the BI roadmap, working with the Senior Director of Trading to prioritise workflows and deliver against departmental and organisational objectives
• Champion the Trading team's commitment to high standards of data quality and reporting performance, monitoring, validating and refining our data assets on a daily basis
• You'll foster a culture of continuous improvement within the BI team, acting as a mentor and promoting demonstrably high standards of end-to-end project completion across all Commercial BI streams
• You'll create and evolve best practices, training, policies and documentation to ensure our BI solutions are built for scale
• Act as a SME for Trading Data, providing a means of knowledge sharing and information exchange between our department and the wider data organisation at FARFETCH
• Continue our successful implementation of Looker; overseeing training & onboarding projects, and striving for high levels of user engagement at all data literacy levels

WHO YOU ARE

• Open and able to work on a fixed term contract and ideally able to start in March 2025
• Experience applying advanced SQL in a BI / Commercial environment, employing tools such as DBT and Airflow to transform and automate key analytics processes
• Experience rolling out new projects in BI & Analytics platforms such as Looker, Tableau or Power BI
• Exposure to BigQuery, and familiar with software development tools including GitHub/Lab and Jira
• Commercially minded with the ability to translate stakeholder needs into technical requirements
• Experience presenting clear and actionable recommendations to influence stakeholders at senior levels
• Comfortable working with BI developers, managing sprint planning processes and adapting priorities where necessary

REWARDS & BENEFITS

• Flexible benefits - Private Medical Insurance, Dental Insurance, Gym Memberships, Pension scheme and more
• Critical Illness Insurance and Life Assurance
• Flexible working environment and more!

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES STATEMENT

•  FARFETCH is an equal opportunities employer ensuring that all applicants are treated equally and fairly throughout our recruitment process. We are determined that no applicant experiences discrimination on the basis of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, gender identity, ancestry, sexual orientation, veteran status, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, or any other basis prohibited by applicable law. We continue to build our consciously inclusive culture as part of our Positively FARFETCH strategy throughout our business, partnerships and communities.